Windsor-Essex Parkway - Page 12

sa230e · #**221** Posted **Jul 27, 2012, 9:04 PM**

Finished the video:

sonysnob · #**222** Posted **Jul 31, 2012, 9:35 PM**

i noticed that kilometre posts have been installed along some of the Hwy 3 diversions, they must want to be able to clear accidents quickly from the diversions.

sa230e · #**223** Posted **Aug 1, 2012, 5:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by sonysnob

i noticed that kilometre posts have been installed along some of the Hwy 3 diversions, they must want to be able to clear accidents quickly from the diversions.

What do kilometre posts have to do with accidents?

sonysnob · #**224** Posted **Aug 1, 2012, 12:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by sa230e

What do kilometre posts have to do with accidents?

Kilometre posts help stranded motorists give their exact locations to first responders so that accidents or stalled vehicles can be very quickly cleared.

sa230e · #**225** Posted **Aug 1, 2012, 6:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by sonysnob

Kilometre posts help stranded motorists give their exact locations to first responders so that accidents or stalled vehicles can be very quickly cleared.

Ah. Gotcha.

sa230e · #**226** Posted **Aug 15, 2012, 1:29 AM**

Took these earlier today:

Symz · #**227** Posted **Aug 16, 2012, 4:37 PM**

I went for a drive through the project area yesterday and it's amazing how huge the project is. I wish I could better document it but I don't really know where to stop and start taking pictures! The project is soo big and there's still soo much traffic zipping through the area I don't really know where there's a great vantage point.

If anyone has a chance to drive through the project and check it out I think you should.

sa230e · #**228** Posted **Aug 16, 2012, 8:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Symz

I went for a drive through the project area yesterday and it's amazing how huge the project is. I wish I could better document it but I don't really know where to stop and start taking pictures! The project is soo big and there's still soo much traffic zipping through the area I don't really know where there's a great vantage point.

If anyone has a chance to drive through the project and check it out I think you should.

Pretty much nowhere if you're driving. When I take my photos I'm either out on my bike or on foot. And even then it's tough to get a good shot because they've got everything cordoned off right up to the street usually.

The only places I can really think of off the top of my head are around Howard Rd. There's an abandoned building with a parking lot you can probably park in and walk off to shoot photos without getting in trouble. http://goo.gl/maps/lzyDk

Chelsea drive and the end of Grosvenor face right onto the trench, you might be able to pull off there and shoot some photos as there's almost no traffic. There is a fence but you can lift you camera over it. Grosvenor now dead ends at the trench and there's no fence, just a big "Do Not Enter" sign. I imagine Surrey Dr. and Montgomery Dr. are similar.

A few places I've taken pics from:
http://goo.gl/maps/eZomH
http://goo.gl/maps/y81ME
http://goo.gl/maps/siLEs
http://goo.gl/maps/IGbso

sa230e · #**229** Posted **Aug 29, 2012, 1:38 AM**

I was just out there today. Some observations:

Lane closures have begun on E.C. Row. It's down to 1 lane each direction between Huron Church and Ojibway Parkway
Part of Howard Road is shut down. I guess to re-route it out to the new roundabout.
Looks like some of the tunnel walls are starting to go up
Another diversion road between Cabana and Labelle is getting close to completion. A new (temporary, I guess) intersection is being built to replace (I'm assuming) the one at Lambton Rd / Grand Marais Rd
Looks like the piers for a ramp
Trillium Court seems to be empty now. I think they'll demolish it soon. The trench is slowly inching towards it.

All photos mine.

RoseCityFreePress · #**230** Posted **Sep 1, 2012, 3:13 AM**

I really hope they make a discovery special about this highway.

haljackey · #**231** Posted **Sep 1, 2012, 4:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by RoseCityFreePress

I really hope they make a discovery special about this highway.

I'm going to assume a special/documentary will be made. Projects like this don't happen too often, especially in this day and age.

sa230e · #**232** Posted **Sep 1, 2012, 7:34 PM**

http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2012/08...ne-year-later/

Windsor-Essex Parkway: One Year Later

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Nearly a year to the day since ground was broken for Ontario’s largest infrastructure project, provincial officials say the Windsor-Essex Parkway remains on track and on schedule — although they are guardedly vague about precise timelines.

RoseCityFreePress · #**233** Posted **Sep 1, 2012, 10:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by sa230e

http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2012/08...ne-year-later/

Windsor-Essex Parkway: One Year Later

This project just from driving by looks like its making big gains. its hard to imagine what it used to look like.

sonysnob · #**234** Posted **Sep 8, 2012, 1:30 PM**

Seems there is a powerful lobby group attached to this project. Read the article here:

http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2012/08...ne-year-later/

sa230e · #**235** Posted **Sep 10, 2012, 12:02 AM**

More new pics. All from the area between Lambton Road and the expressway.

The new diversion has been painted:

Steep drop off:

sa230e · #**236** Posted **Sep 10, 2012, 11:58 PM**

More pics for ya!

Looking north from Trillium Court:

Trillium court is now emptied. It's days are numbered.

The beginning of the new diversion. Taken at Todd Lane and Huron Church.

A few weeks ago I saw they were building piers for the flyover ramps. Now it looks like they're getting ready to pour the ramps themselves. I couldn't get close to the site so this was the best shot I could get:

Huron Line and Hwy 3

Stacks of concrete blocks for the tunnel walls

Symz · #**237** Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 4:15 AM**

Great shots! Thanks for sharing. I'm surprised that Trillium Court is still standing, I thought they had finished the demo for the project.

go_leafs_go02 · #**238** Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 5:13 PM**

Great shots - if I still lived in Ontario, I'd be heading down to Windsor to check this impressive project out a few times.

MrSlippery519 · #**239** Posted **Sep 11, 2012, 5:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by go_leafs_go02

Great shots - if I still lived in Ontario, I'd be heading down to Windsor to check this impressive project out a few times.

It's quite impressive the progress they are making, I drive by about once a month as my wife's family lives in Amherstburg...everytime I go to turn onto Howard (once the 401 ends) it's just amazing the progress.

Looks like a new place everytime we drive up.

Jacob · #**240** Posted **Sep 12, 2012, 12:07 AM**

There is a path that goes along grand marais ditch that used to go to a park on the other side of huron church called 7 hills. When they started the construction, they had a path detour so people could still get across the highway but now, the detour simply dead ends and you get yelled at for being in a construction zone. I wish they would be more considerate of the many, many people that use the path.