Grand Marais Road
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| Grand Marais Road |
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| Length: | 8 km (5 mi) |
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| Direction: | East/West |
| East end: | Intersection with Pillette Road |
| West end: | Intersection with Huron Church Road/Highway 3 and Lambton Road |
| Counties: | Essex County, Ontario |
| Major cities: | Windsor |
Grand Marais Road (French for "Big Marsh Road") is a road that travells through Windsor, Ontario. Its use and significance has dwindled considerably following the completion of the E.C. Row Expressway.
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[edit] History
The intersection with Walker Road is the site where the Tornado of 1946 touched down for a second time and reached its peak intensity of F4.
Grand Marais Road used be in one piece, linking Huron Church Road in the southwest with Pillette Road in the east, following Turkey Creek fairly closely (hence the name "Big Marsh Road").
Once E.C. Row Expressway was constructed, parts of the road were closed off and torn up. They are listed below, heading westbound:
- Just east of the intersection with Plymouth Drive and Walker Road, Grand Marais Road turns quickly south to meet Plymouth (which was intended to handle through traffic towards the east end of Windsor in the 1970s), with two lanes being closed off and used as a parking space for residents nearby. The pavement on the northernmost two westbound lanes is much older than the rest, showing evidence of this (despite one lane being torn up and grassed over, a sidewalk being laid down along the road...)
- Intersection with Walker Road, east-bound-only traffic can exit the road. Memorial Drive to the north is now a bike trail. nearby residential streets allow access for drivers wanting to continue along Grand Marais Rd.
- West of Howard Avenue, the road leads to Zalev's Scrap Yard. It used to meet the tracs at a grade crossing, until E.C. Row Expressway's bridges were constructed. The road was truncated to Zalev's in the east, and is now a driveway to the shopping plaza to the west. It continues as West Grand Boulevard following Turkey Creek very closely through built-up residential areas, with signs leading drivers back to Grand Marais Road (which it parallels closely as well).
- At the Dougall Road interchange with E.C. Row Expressway, the road's traffic is diverted onto Bruce Avenue (a quiet residential street), while a small segment of the road continues to a hotel parking lot. it was closed when the interchange's cloverleaf ramps were built in the late 1960s, due to how close the road is to the ramps.
From Bruce Avenue, the road continues much as it did before the expressway was built, with bike lanes along much of its path.
[edit] Today
The road is fairly lightly used, and is basically a feeder road or collector road towards major arterial roads nearby. It travels through several quiet residential neighbourhoods, such as South Windsor.
[edit] West Grand Boulevard
West Grand Boulevard is a derivative street that parallels Grand Marais fairly closely (being just on the other side of Turkey Creek) between Huron Church Road and Dougall Avenue. The road ranges from a somewhat busy arterial road to simply a driveway, or even a bike path and sidewalk in width. The road is discontinuous in sections, linked by trails and sidewalks. The road's name switches sides (from being on the south shore to the north shore) near Rankin Avenue (a residential street), with the street on the south shore named "West Grand Court".
[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 |
