10 Jul Windsor Essex Parkway

Windsor Essex Parkway

The Windsor-Essex Parkway is an unprecedented highway project. Its scope, features and benefits to travellers and the community are one-of-a-kind.

The Windsor-Essex Parkway will reflect the high safety standards and  practices that have consistently made Ontario’s roads among the safest in North America. This state-of-the-art Parkway will provide border-bound travellers with direct freeway access to a modern inspection plaza and a new international river crossing, cutting valuable travel time off of their trips. Local travellers will be able to enter and exit the route easily via the Parkway’s many on and off ramps. Service roads will improve access to schools, shops, neighbourhoods and natural areas.

Tunnelled roadways will provide  community connections for the first time while restoring natural linkages.  Pedestrians and cyclists will enjoy 20 km of new recreational trails and will  be able to travel the length of the corridor without encountering a motor  vehicle. Their use will be safe for the whole family. The community will benefit  from more than 300 Acres of green space and various opportunities to determine  their use – a local solution for the people of Windsor-Essex.

What’s Happening

Check  out real-time road conditions along the Windsor-Essex Parkway corridor by  viewing the Ministry of Transportation COMPASS traffic cameras. Click on  any camera image along Highway 401, Talbot Road/Highway 3 or Huron Church Road.

Date: Week of June 25, 2012

Short-Term Closures

• Huron Church Road northbound right lane between Cabana Road and Labelle street is closed.
• Huron Church Road southbound right lane is closed from Cabana Road Intersection to 200 metres west of Intersection.

Long-Term Closures

• Pulford Street at Huron Church road will be closed June 18, 2012 until August 10, 2012. Grand Marais Road West at Huron Church Road will be closed July 9, 2012 to August 10, 2012.
• Montgomery Drive at Highway 3 will be closed May 22, 2012 for approximately one year.
• Huron Church Roud southbound right line is closed from E.C. Row Off-ramp to 200 metres east of Labelle Street Intersection.
• Matchette Road eastbound on-ramp to E.C. Row  will be closed March 15, 2012 for approximately two years.
• A portion of Bethlehem Avenue from Huron Church Road to Sixth Street will be closed for approximately one year beginning February 21, 2012.
• Outer Drive south of Highway 3 will be closed October 24, 2011.
• A portion of North Talbot Road will be closed on August 20, 2011.

Permanent Closures

• Surrey Drive at Highway will be permanently closed on May 22, 2012.
• Grosvenor Street at Highway 3 will be permanently closed on Tuesday, February 21, 2012.

CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES:

• Topsoil removal and excavation works for:
  • Oliver Estates Tunnel (T-11)
  • Villa Borghese Tunnel (T-7)
  • Oakwood Tunnel (T-5)
  • Labelle Tunnel (T-2)
  • Spring Garden Tunnel (T-1)
  • Bridge 11, west of Howard Avenue
  • Bridge 9, east of Huron Church Line
  • Pond 3 at Todd Lane
  • Ramps at Hearthwood Tunnel (T-10B), and in the areas of Bridge 13 & 14 (east of Howard Avenue)
• Pile driving for Bridge 11, west of Howard Avenue
• Abutment construction works at Bridge 10, west of St. Clair College
• Construction of diversions D-2 and D-3 from Bethlehem Ave. to Grand Marais Rd. and Pulford Rd. to Cabana Rd.
• Excavation and wall installation between Grand Marais and Pulford including sheet piling
• Panel placement at Bridge B-13, south of Howard Avenue
• Construction of cul-de-sac at Surrey Drive and Montgomery Drive
• Installation of underground utility duct banks along east side of Huron Church Road from E.C. Row to Labelle
• Wick drain works north of Spring Garden Bridge (B-6) and east of Matchette Road Bridge (B-3)
• Environmental construction monitoring along the construction corridor
• Continued monitoring of Species at Risk within the Project limits
• Geotechnical data collection at various embankment locations throughout