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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
There were plans for big upgrades to highway 3 and 6 but I’m not sure it was ever a full freeway. Some of it is still in municipal official plans if you look. I’ve seen the old proposed alignment of 6 from Caledonia down to Naticoke, it would have followed the hydro corridor east of Hagersville and Jarvis and past Jarvis detoured over to Nanticoke instead of heading into Port Dover as it does today. The same OP also has a realignment of 3 around Dunnville, eliminating that weird zigzag 3 does dropping south into Dunnville.
The whole failed “new city” in Norfolk / Haldimand is so fascinating to me. The province planned a whole new city of 150,000 people just outside of Jarvis with employment at Nanticoke, US Steel, and other industries on the shores of Lake Erie, but it never materialized. All that happened is they built a few hundred homes and the whole thing fell apart. What’s left is Townsville, a small community entirely consisting of early 1980’s subdivisions and a very oversized Main Street built for a much larger community.
Regardless it’s all “dead” now and never coming back.
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Townsend is definitely a fascinating case in Ontario and Canadian planning. I remember we spent time talking about it in one of my urban geography courses (back in the early 1990s when it was still "fresh"... my memory of details, however, is not
)
If anyone ever takes a drive down Hwy 6 south of Hamilton it's worth a little detour west just before you hit Jarvis, on Nanticoke Creek Parkway. It feels really strange to be in the midst of this little patch of suburbia, surrounded by an ocean of rural land.
I don't know if there's a lot of literature about it, though you'd think someone may have done a thesis at some point.
Here are a couple of links with short summaries of the history:
http://www.townsendretraced.ca/project.html
http://spacing.ca/toronto/2009/06/16...-phantom-town/
Driving down to Nanticoke is another interesting tour. The remaining buildings of the power generating station
were just demolished (link is to a YouTube video from Aug 22), but the Stelco/USS/New-Stelco plant is still there, as is a refinery... it's kind of surreal to see these hulking industrial complexes rising out of farm fields. You can drive right along Lake Erie in many places down there, between Port Dover and the Grand River (there's a road between the steel mill and the lake along one stretch).
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