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Originally Posted by north 42
It's called the Windsor-Essex Parkway because it's a completely different design from the rest of the 401, plus it's an actual parkway, not just a highway.
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Parkways are hard to define, but they usually imply having grass or parkland in the median. They can also have signalized intersections and prohibit trucks. 401 is a heavy truck route do this doesn't make sense.
Upon completion the 401 will now have 3 other names:
-Macdonald-Cartier Freeway (entire length)
-Highway of Heroes (Highway 404/DVP to Trenton)
-Windsor-Essex Parkway (US border to Highway 3)
Enough already? This is getting out of hand. The project could have been called the Windsor-Essex Parkway, but it shouldn't be named as such in my opinion.