the more correct way to think of it is that the tunnel bus was drawing me into the downtown core on days i wouldn't have otherwise gone downtown at all. i may have taken a few shots before i left, or otherwise spent money downtown on my way to and from the bus. cancelling the bus means i'll spend less money downtown because i have less reason to go downtown, and sending me on a detour to the new bridge is going to see me spend more money in lasalle or sandwichtown, instead. the new bridge is going to shift the centre of the city away from ouellette and to the southwest. in 20 years, we may call this area lasalle-windsor, or go back to calling it sandwich.
it's maybe not realized, although i don't know how people could miss it, that the reason downtown windsor shifted from sandwich town to ouellette in the first place was because the tunnel and the tunnel bus was there. you cancel or shift or undo that and you cancel or shift or undo downtown, because the major reason people go to downtown windsor is to go back and forth from detroit.
the problem with mayor dilbert is that he's a dork-ass family values conservative loser. we need somebody that's more interested in individual rights and less interested in family values and sees the priority in funding things like the tunnel bus, while slashing funding for stupid christmas bullshit.
from what i can tell, the decision to cancel the tunnel bus was broadly unpopular. we'll have to see if it's career ending and if it's a big enough issue to overturn city council, if we can find some candidates willing to put it on the ballot.