- Pike Creek Bypass
Infobox road
highway_name = Essex County Road 22
marker_
alternate_name = Tecumseh Road, Route 2, Route 22
length_km = 7.4
length_notes =
maint = Maintained by the Essex County transportation department
direction_a = East
direction_b = West
direction = East/West
starting_terminus = Former Highway 2 inPuce, Ontario
ending_terminus = Manning Road
cities = Windsor, Tecumseh, St. Clair Beach, Puce,Belle River, Ontario
counties =Essex County, Ontario
established = 1934
decommissioned = 1970 (re-numbered as Highway 2)The Pike Creek Bypass is the part of Essex County Road 22 that stretches from Manning Road (County Road 19) east to its terminus in
Puce, Ontario withTecumseh Road (County Road 2). The road continues west past Manning Road as an extension ofE.C. Row Expressway , eventually becoming that road.History
The Bypass was constructed in 1961 to alleviate traffic along the former Highway 39 alignment (now Tecumseh Road/County Road 2). It was opened to traffic, and bypassed the town of
St. Clair Beach, Ontario .In 1970, Highway 2 was re-aligned along its path, eliminating Highway 39 from the system. Highway 2 would be decommissioned in 1998, however, and redesignated as Essex County Road 22.
Aside from a brief segment east from Manning Road for about 1 km, the road is entirely 2-lanes and without store and house accesses (it was built as a two-lane
expressway , and only has access at intersections, with no adjacent properties or driveways.Due to the huge housing boom in western Lakeshore, the road has become extremely congested, and many people have desired the road be widened to four lanes, or even a
divided highway orfreeway , but due to the narrowright of way , the road is being widened to four lanes as a new Super-Arterial road or even aSuper 4 , with the possibility of an interchange atManning Road .See also
* List of Essex County Roads
* Highway 2
* Highway 18
* Highway 98
* Highway 107
* Highway 114External links
* [http://www.thekingshighway.ca/Highway39.htm Highway 39 at TheKingsHighway.ca]
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