Walker Road
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| Walker Road |
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| Essex County Road 11 | |
| Length: | 40 km (25 mi) The southernmost 28 km (16 mi) are designated as County Road 11, the rest are unsigned, in the City of Windsor. |
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| Direction: | North/South |
| North end: | Riverside Drive |
| South end: | Essex County Road 20) |
| Counties: | Essex County, Ontario |
| Major cities: | Windsor, Oldcastle, Tecumseh, Amherstburg, McGregor, Essex, Harrow |
Walker Road is one of the busiest roads in Windsor, Ontario. It has an average annual daily traffic (AADT) level of 32,000 cars per day at the CP Rail crossing.
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[edit] History
The road is named after Hiram Walker, distillery baron. The CP Rail crossing where Walker Road meets Grand Marais Road and the Chrysler Canada Windsor plant is the location where the Tornado of 1946 cut through and reached its peak intensity (an F4 in strength).
Today, the road is very busy, servicing mainly industries and businesses along the road, with an interchange with E.C. Row Expressway. It also travels from the Canadian Club whiskey distillery at the foot of Walker Road and Riverside Drive, past the Chrysler Canada minivan plant, towards Windsor Airport.
Until Windsor became a Separated Municipality in 1998, Walker Road was designated as a "Windsor Suburban Road", with its shield remaining the same, but with Windsor Suburban replacing "Essex County". This is no longer the case, and all county roads in Essex County have the county's name on their shields.
[edit] In The Field
At the Highway 401 overpass (which is the city limits for Windsor), the road gains the designation of Essex County Road 11. Thouigh it does not have direct access to Highway 401, it does allow people to get on to the freeway or off of it via the exit with Provincial Road (County Road 46), which meets Walker Road 1 km north of the freeway.
The road is dead straight for 17 km, before swinging southeast (concurrent with County Road 18) towards Harrow, Ontario, its final terminus.
The road holds the designation of County Road 11 for 28 km (from Highway 401 to Harrow).
[edit] Upgrades
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This section contains information about a planned or expected future road. It may contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the road's construction and/or completion approaches and more information becomes available. |
The City of Windsor has announced a long-awaited underpass (grade separation) at the CP Rail tracks, due to roughly 7 trains per day halting traffic up to 20 minutes at a time travelling through the area, causing very long traffic jams, and even increases traffic on nearby north-south arteries as people try to avoid the backups. The project is slated to cost roughly $50 million dollars and run 16-18 months in length, starting in April 2007. During the construction, the road will be sunken below the rail tracks, which will have one rail line open to allow trains to pass through to Detroit, Michigan and Toronto, Ontario. The configuration of the intersection will also be changed to be safer. Once this project is complete, a similar one will be done for Howard Avenue.
[edit] See also
[edit] Former Provincial Highways
[edit] External links
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| Provincial Highways: | Highway 3 • Highway 401 • Highway 7087/E. C. Row Expressway |
| Nearby County Roads: | 9 • 20 • 22 • 42 |
| Municipal Expressways: | E. C. Row Expressway • Ojibway Parkway • Sandwich Parkway • Dougall Parkway |
| Arterial Roads (North-South): | Sandwich Street • Matchette Road • Malden Road • Huron Church Road • Campbell Avenue/Dominion Boulevard • Dougall Avenue • Ouellette Avenue • McDougall Avenue • Howard Avenue • Provincial Road • Walker Road • Central Avenue • Jefferson Road • Lauzon Road/Lauzon Parkway |
| Arterial Roads (East-West): | Riverside Drive • University Avenue • Wyandotte Street • Tecumseh Road • Eugenie Street • E. C. Row Expressway • Cabana Road/Division Road |
| Other North-South Roads: | Victoria Avenue • Drouillard Road/Chrysler Center • Pillette Road • Banwell Road |
| Other East-West Roads: | Erie Street • Giles Boulevard (Windsor, Ontario) • Ottawa Street (Windsor, Ontario) • Shepherd Street • Grand Marais Road/West Grand Boulevard • Plymouth Road • Dougall Parkway • North Talbot Road • Totten Street • College Avenue • Prince Road • Forest Glade Drive • Wildwood Drive • Cousineau Drive/Country Club Drive • Clairview Avenue |
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| Provincial Highways: | Highway 3 • Highway 77 • Highway 401 |
| County Roads: | 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 25 • 27 • 29 • 31 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 37 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 • 45 • 46 • 48 • 50 • 114 |
| Former County Roads | 43 • 117 |
| Municipal/County Expressways: | Pike Creek Bypass • E. C. Row Expressway |
| Other (Former) Road Systems: | Windsor Suburban Roads |
