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.

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 May 14, 2012

TRAFFIC NOTES:

Short-Term Closures

• Huron Church Road eastbound left lane from Cabana Road/Todd Lane to Huron Church Line will be closed May 16 at 5:00 a.m. until May 23 at 7:00 p.m.

Long-Term Closures

• Surrey Drive at Highway will be permanently closed on May 22, 2012. Map
• Montgomery Drive at Highway 3 will be closed May 22, 2012 for approximately one year. View the public notice
• Huron Church Road westbound right lane between Labelle Street and Todd Lane will be closed March 14, 2012 for approximately two and a half months.
• Matchette Road eastbound on-ramp to E.C. Row will be closed March 15, 2012 for approximately two years. View the public notice English. Read more details.
• A portion of Bethlehem Avenue from Huron Church Road to Sixth Street will be closed for approximately one year beginning February 21, 2012. Map
• Grosvenor Street at Highway 3 will be permanently closed on Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Map
• Huron Church Road northbound right lane between Pulford Street and Grand Marais Road will be closed starting January 6 until June 2012.
• Outer Drive south of Highway 3 will be closed starting at 8:00 a.m., Monday, October 24. View the public notice English French
• A portion of North Talbot Road will be closed for up to nine months starting at 3 a.m. on Saturday, August 20. View the detour map. View the public notice English French

CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES:

• Excavation at:
• Oliver Estates Tunnel (T-11); Villa Borghese Tunnel (T-7); and Labelle Tunnel (T-2)
• Bridges 9, 10, 11, 13 & 14
• Pond 3
• Diversions 2 and 3
• Pile driving for Bridge 9 east of Huron Church Line
• Pile driving for Tunnel 10B (T-10B) at Hearthwood
• Utility testing, traffic signal and sign installation at:
• Diversions 4, 5 and 8
• Huron Church at Cabana/Todd
• Deck installation at Bridge 15
• Duct and watermain installation along eastern side of Huron Church Road Pulford to Grand Marais
• Construction of Howard Avenue Diversion, from Outer Drive to Highway 3
• Clay fill embankments in the areas of Matchette Road, Ojibway Parkway and Malden Road
• Wick drain works on the east side of Matchette Road and Malden Road
• 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 the site