County Road 20 (Essex County, Ontario)
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| Essex County Road 20 |
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| Ojibway Parkway, Front Road, Highway #18, County Road 20, Seacliff Drive, Main Street | |
| Length: | 79 km (49 mi) |
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| Direction: | East/West |
| East end: | Essex County Road 20, east of Leamington |
| West end: | Windsor City Limits (Continues as Ojibway Parkway) |
| Counties: | Essex County, Ontario |
| Major cities: | Windsor, LaSalle, Amherstburg, Malden Center, Harrow, Kingsville, Ruthven, Leamington, Ontario |
County Road 20 is one of the longest roads in all of Essex County, Ontario, travelling from Leamington in the southeast, curving all the way around the western edge of Essex County, towards Amherstburg, Ontario, before terminating at the city limits of Windsor.
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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 Seacliff Drive in Leamington, and travelled from its intersection with Highway 18 (at Erie Street), to County Road 37, east of the town. When the road was decommissioned as a Provincial highway, the designation of CR 20 was extended on the entire path of Highway 18.
During the construction of the E. C. Row Expressway in the 1960s and 1970s, the road was upgraded to four lanes wide (undivided, and with residential and business accesses), as a temporary measure to see a potential extension of E.C. Row built all the way to Amherstburg. This never materialised, however, and the expressway simply feeds onto Ojibway Parkway and County Road 20.
[edit] Today
The road is fairly heavily travelled, particularly between Kingsville and Leamington, and from Amherstburg north to LaSalle and Windsor (where it continues as Ojibway Parkway). The road also contains the Heritage Highway and Detroit River Heritage Parkway designations for most of its length.
