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 January 30, 2012

TRAFFIC NOTES:

• EC Row Expressway, eastbound left lane, will be closed between Ojibway Parkway until east of the Matchette Road overpass on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 from 12:00 a.m. until 5:00 a.m.
• Huron Church Road northbound right lane between Pulford Street and Grand Marais Road will be closed starting January 6 until April 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:

AMICO INFRASTRUCTURES

• Construction activities for Howard Avenue Diversion
• Sanitary sewer works in Spring Garden Area
• Earthworks; topsoil removal, excavation and fill along construction corridor
• Wick drain works in the areas of Matchette, Chappus and Ojibway
• Water main works on Broadway, Bethlehem and Howard Ave at Highway 3

FACCA INCORPORATED

• Bridge abutment and centre median pier construction the North Talbot Road Bridge
• Construction works for new culvert at Grand Marais Drain
• Test piling operations

AMEC

• Environmental construction monitoring
• Geotechnical data collection