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Toll: $10.00 USD
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Bridge facts
- Open
- 24 hours, every day
- Toll, car with a Premier prepaid card
- $5.50 USD
- Toll, car by credit card or U.S. cash
- $10.00 USD
- Toll, car in Canadian cash
- $14.00 CAD
- Toll, car with a trailer
- $20.00 USD · $28.00 CAD cash
- Toll, truck
- $12.00 USD per axle · less with an A-PASS
- Payment
- Cards and cash, either currency · no E-ZPass before autumn 2026
- Allowed
- Cars, buses, motorcycles, trucks, oversized loads by permit
- Not allowed
- Pedestrians, cyclists, scooters
- NEXUS lane, into Canada
- Mon – Fri 6:00 am – 11:00 pm · weekends and holidays 8:00 am – 10:00 pm
- NEXUS lane, into the U.S.
- Mon – Fri 5:30 am – 8:00 pm · weekends and holidays 11:30 am – 7:00 pm
- Ready Lane, U.S.-bound
- Mon – Fri 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
- Also here
- FAST lanes · duty-free shop
The Ambassador Bridge opened on 15 November 1929 and carries four lanes of traffic between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. It is privately operated.
Quick answers
Can you walk or cycle across the Ambassador Bridge?
No. Foot and bicycle traffic has been prohibited since 11 September 2001 and there is no walkway. The Gordie Howe Bridge multi-use path is the only crossing between Windsor and Detroit you can walk or ride across, and it keeps its own shorter hours, so check those before you set out.
Does the Ambassador Bridge accept E-ZPass?
Not yet. The operator’s rate card lists E-ZPass alongside credit cards, but its own footnote says acceptance begins in autumn 2026. Until then bring a credit card, U.S. cash, or a Premier prepaid card.
Can I use the Ready Lane?
A Ready Lane is a quicker U.S.-bound lane for travellers carrying a card with a chip the booth can read from a distance: an enhanced licence, a U.S. passport card, or a NEXUS, SENTRI, Global Entry or FAST card. An ordinary passport book does not count, and everyone in the vehicle aged 16 or over needs an eligible card — one passenger carrying only a passport book disqualifies the whole car.
Tolls and payment
Cash is accepted here in either currency, which the tunnel does not do at all. The catch is the exchange: rates are set in U.S. dollars, so the Canadian-cash price is the most expensive way across for a car, and the Premier prepaid card is the cheapest.
Vehicles and lanes
Motorcycles are permitted here, unlike at the Detroit–Windsor Tunnel, and so are oversized and wide loads under the operator’s permit requirements. Between the two bridges and the tunnel, this is the crossing with the fewest vehicle restrictions.
The agencies count the queue at the booths, not the roads leading to them. The Windsor approach here can add time that no official number captures — worth allowing for on this crossing in particular.
