SSE was retained by the City of Windsor, Ontario to develop mitigations for an open-cut, six-lane, depressed highway planned through the city to a new international plaza and bridge crossing to Detroit, Michigan. The highway — an extension of the existing Highway 401 — is the preferred option developed by the Detroit River International Crossing (DRIC) team, a Canada-U.S.-Ontario-Michigan border transportation partnership. SSE introduced an urban design solution and a vision for Windsor, called GreenLink Windsor, that would minimize the highway's intrusion into the communities along its path and maximize the cohesion and interconnectivity potential of this six-kilometer corridor, while adding hundreds of acres of usable green space and providing an end-to-end pedestrian/bike path that would never cross a car at grade.