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Old Posted Feb 10, 2011, 9:37 PM
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Windsor-Essex Parkway

Conceptual images of the Windsor-Essex Parkway.









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Website: http://www.weparkway.ca/

The Windsor-Essex Parkway will extend Highway 401 to a new bridge border crossing with the USA, creating a full freeway link in Windsor.

Construction starts later this year. Prep work begun in 2010.
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2011, 4:24 AM
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They've already demolished dozens of buildings along Huron Church Road for this.

Good to see Ontario is building a highway right to the border only 60 years after they should have.
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2011, 9:27 PM
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Very cool interactive map: http://www.weparkway.ca/interactivem...activeMap.html

It will be the first major highway project in Ontario since the 407 and 416 were completed in the late 1990's.
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I really like some of the landscaping and configuration decisions they've made. Words cannot express how badly I want something like this in London.
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Old Posted Mar 18, 2011, 6:44 PM
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New Windsor-Essex Parkway signs erected along Highway 3 in Windsor:





Propaganda much?
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Old Posted Mar 18, 2011, 8:04 PM
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Not as bad as the Economic Action Plan signs stuck to every single thing the federal government owns. They tuned up an old clock at our tax building a year ago and the sign has been in front of it ever since.
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I love the land bridges. Hopefully this is something that gets incorporated in the majority of Hwy projects from now on.
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Old Posted May 4, 2011, 9:10 PM
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This project has been needed for such a long time now, It's great to see it about to start soon
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Old Posted Jun 2, 2011, 5:19 PM
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I agree this project is long overdue. My father is a truck driver, has been for almost over 35 years and he put it like this. You can drive from Quebec almost all the way to Windsor without having to stop, but the last 6km or so leading up to the bridge you hit something like 15 traffic lights on the 401, so it's definately a bottleneck that needs to be addressed.
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Old Posted Jun 2, 2011, 8:48 PM
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^ You can drive from Quebec City all the way to Mexico without stopping at all (except at 15 traffic lights in Windsor).
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Old Posted Jun 21, 2011, 5:28 PM
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How do you guys feel knowing that the province is plowing ahead with this much needed project, but Michigan has YET to come on board and approve the bridge project, meaning as of now it is the road to nowhere.

I know the newly elected Michigan state governer (Snyder) though he's republican (democrats were previously pushing the bridge) he seems to be on board, but Matty Maroun has alot of Michigan politicians in his pocket.


If you look at the bridge renderings did you ever notice people going over this yet to be built bridge to the states, the first thing they will see is Zug Island on the states side.... Great first impression.

source: some guy on flickr
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The new goverment bridge will eventually be built at some point in time, everyone of importance is behind this project except the owners of the Ambassador Bridge and some politicians in Michigan that were paid off with political donations by them.
Windsor will not permit the Ambassador Bridge to be twinned, which would rip up historical neighbourhoods and permit thousands of belching trucks to continue to clog major city streets.
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Old Posted Jun 23, 2011, 9:57 PM
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If Michigan keeps dawdling, they will eventually be trumped by Washington. The only reason this hasn't passed in Michigan yet is because of Moroun (the slumlord owner of the Ambassador Bridge).

It is not a pleasant sight but there's no real alternative.
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The view won't be any worse than driving through Hamilton with their steel mills, not great, but like Blitz said, there's not really any alternative
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Old Posted Jun 25, 2011, 1:40 PM
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Myself I haven't really gone down to Indian road to see how many houses have been affected by this Bridge vs. City stalemate. From what I gather in the media it seems a pretty sizeable chunk of that street or area is laying derelict. It's a crying shame and I feel sorry for the residents of Indian Rd. for being caught up in the middle of it all, but it seems that's where the line was drawn and the trenches dug. I'm sure residents of that street don't feel the same, but I emplore the city for standing up to the Ambassador Bridge Company.
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The vast majority of those homes were/are used as student rentals...there are a handful of long-term residents but not many. Moroun is the ultimate real-life 'Mr. Burns'. He doesn't care about any of the residents, he has ruined entire neighbourhoods on both sides of the border, and he's only concerned about making money. Lots of people in Windsor are just hoping he dies soon but when that happens, everything will just be transferred to his idiot son (who is just as bad).
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Hate to rain on the parade but numbers for cross border traffic between Michigan and Ontario are down 50% since 9/11. Does that really warrant a new bridge?

BTW I am in favor of the new bridge. It won't cost Michigan taxpayers a dime and will create thousands of jobs.

Just thought I'd stir the pot a little
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Old Posted Jun 26, 2011, 3:58 PM
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You sound like those misleading commercials that Moroun keeps playing. Border traffic is only going to rise in the future and the Ambassador Bridge is 83 years old.
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Some informational bullets from the www.infrastructureontario.com website


About the project:

The Windsor-Essex Parkway is the Ontario access road portion of the proposed new Windsor-Detroit border transportation system to improve the flow of goods and people between Canada’s and the United States’ busiest gateway.

Upon completion, Ontario’s Highway 401 will for the first time be directly connected to the United States interstate system. The Parkway will travel west from Highway 401 in southwest Ontario, Canada, through the City of Windsor and connect to a Canadian inspection plaza, a new international bridge, a Michigan inspection plaza and Interstate 75 in Michigan, USA.

The Windsor-Essex Parkway is the first transportation project in Ontario to be delivered using alternative financing and procurement. The Parkway will be publicly owned and controlled.

The Recommended Plan for the Windsor-Essex Parkway is documented in the Detroit River International Crossing Environmental Assessment Report, which was reviewed and approved under the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act.

Project Features:

The six-lane, 11 kilometre freeway and four-lane service road will have 11 covered tunnels, be built below grade, and have earth berms and noise barriers in place to minimize community impact. The tunnels range from 120 metres to 240 metres long, totaling 1.8 kilometres.

The Parkway will include more than 300 acres of green space and 20 kilometres of recreational trail.

Full construction of the Parkway will begin in summer 2011 and it will be open to traffic in fall 2014.
Community and Green Features:

The 20-kilometres of recreational trails will connect communities and promote healthy living.

The Parkway’s 300-acres of green space will integrate with local parks and other protected natural areas to create a green corridor that supports viable natural communities, links existing natural areas and buffers surrounding communities from the new freeway.

Species at risk and their habitats are protected for the long-term and where necessary, they will be relocated to areas that are restored, enhanced or created and protected.

Economic Benefits:

At the peak of construction, WEMG, the winning bidder, estimates that between 1,200 to 1,300 workers will be on the Parkway site daily.

WEMG partnerships with local business owners and institutions will ensure the success of the project during its design, construction and operation; these partnerships will help to strengthen the local economy, and create jobs and training.

Much of the Parkway’s construction and maintenance work will be performed by local labour force and local subcontractors.

WEMG estimates it will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on local labour, local supplies, and materials over the lifespan of the project.




I took the liberty of just stitching together the interactive map from the www.weparkway.ca website for the sake of just making things easier to visual within the thread, and I was bored.


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