Ojibway Parkway
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| Ojibway Parkway |
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| Length: | 4 km (2 mi) |
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| Direction: | North/South |
| North end: | Intersection with E.C. Row Expressway and Sandwich Parkway |
| South end: | Windsor City Limits (Continues as Esssex County Road 20) |
| Counties: | Essex County, Ontario |
| Major cities: | Windsor, LaSalle |
Ojibway Parkway is a very busy arterial road on the far west side of Windsor, Ontario. The road travels by the Windsor Raceway, and by the Ojibway Park and Black Oak Heritage Park areas, giving it a unique rural-industrial look. The divided highway is named after the Ojibwa people.
The road is a dual-carriageway expressway, but has intersections with cross streets.
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[edit] History
- Main Article: Highway 18.
From 1930 to 1998, much of the road was Highway 18, but was decommissioned on April 1, 1998.
While Highway 18 was under provincial control, the road was simply known as Ojibway Parkway, and continued north along E.C. Row Expressway to Highway 3 (Huron Church Road), while some maps erroneously posted Highway 18 as following Sandwich Parkway, Sandwich Street, and Riverside Drive. When the road was decommissioned as a Provincial highway, the designation of CR 20 was extended on the entire path of Highway 18, but was not extended into Windsor, as it is a Separated Municipality.
Since the road has only cross-streets with intersections, it was planned as an extension of E.C. Row, to head south towards LaSalle and Amherstburg. This plan was never realised, however.
[edit] Today
The road is fairly heavily travelled, particularly around the Windsor Raceway and Windsor Salt Mines, containing a fair deal of trucks. The road also leads to the Detroit-Windsor Truck Ferry.
