Ontario Highway 3B

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Not to be confused with Highway 3B that became Highway 51 in Norfolk County.

King's Highway 3B marker

King's Highway 3B

Route information
Maintained by City of Windsor
Length11 km[citation needed] (6.8 mi)
Existed1935–1998
Location
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
CountiesEssex
Highway system
← Highway 3→ Highway 4

King's Highway 3B, commonly referred to as Highway 3B, was a

Detroit–Windsor Tunnel
and downtown Windsor. Highway 3B was routed along the city streets of Ouellette Avenue, Ouellette Place, Howard Avenue, and Dougall Avenue, and the short freeway of Dougall Parkway.

Route description

The former route of Highway 3B begins at an interchange with Highway 401 as the Dougall Parkway, proceeding westward as a four-lane divided highway having

Essex County Road 42
(Cabana Road).

At

CN Rail tracks (still with a central reservation), and along the curve to Ouellette Avenue. It continues north before terminating at the intersection with Wyandotte Street
in downtown Windsor, just two blocks from the Detroit–Windsor Tunnel.

Highway 401
looking west at the split with Dougall Parkway (former Highway 3B).

History

Highway 3B was originally named Highway 3A, when its parent road (Highway 3) was re-routed to meet the newly finished

Tecumseh Road to Ouellette Avenue, and thenceforth continuing to downtown Windsor's ferry docks. When the Detroit–Windsor Tunnel was completed in 1930,[citation needed] the Highway was truncated about one kilometre from the ferry docks, at the intersection of Ouellette Avenue and London Street (now University Avenue), just two blocks from the tunnel entrance at Goyeau Street.[citation needed
]

When the Ouellette Avenue curve was constructed in 1963, the portion north of the curve along Dougall Avenue and Tecumseh Road was reverted to municipal control, and the designation of Highway 3B was placed on the re-aligned curve leading along Dougall Avenue and Ouellette Avenue. In 1966, the road was also designated as a

Ministry of Transportation would still contribute and help. The road's status as a provincial highway was repealed in 1975, but the connecting link agreement was kept, allowing the road to still be signed as Highway 3B.[citation needed
]

Dougall Parkway was constructed as one of the two western forks of Highway 401 in the mid-1950s as the other fork ended at

Highway 3B
and Highway 401 (two freeways with the same designation merging as they head east).

Highway 401 facing southwest in 1958, at the interchange with then-Highway 98 (now Provincial Road) in the foreground, and the split at Dougall Parkway (then-Highway 3B) in the background. This segment would be reconstructed in 2008-10.

As part of a series of budget cuts initiated by premier Mike Harris under his Common Sense Revolution platform in 1995, numerous highways deemed to no longer be of significance to the provincial network were decommissioned and responsibility for the routes transferred to a lower level of government, a process referred to as downloading. As it generally served a local function, Highway 3B was downloaded in its entirety on January 1, 1998, and transferred to the city of Windsor.[1][2] Since then, it has been known as Ouellette Avenue, Ouellette Place, Howard Avenue, Dougall Avenue, and Dougall Parkway.[3]

In 2008 and 2009, as part of the reconstruction of the section of Highway 401 from Dougall Parkway (former Highway 3B) to Provincial Road (former Highway 98), the Dougall Parkway split with Highway 401 was reconfigured, replacing a one-lane 1950s-era underpass tunnel with a modern high-speed flyover ramp. The old interchange reduced eastbound Highway 401 traffic to one lane as it merged with the left-handed on-ramp from Dougall Parkway, whereas the new interchange allows three lanes per direction of Highway 401 to pass through as mainline traffic.

Exit list

The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 3B, as noted by the City of Windsor.[citation needed] The entire route is located in Windsor, Ontario. 

km[citation needed]miDestinationsNotes
0.00.0Darcey StreetAt grade; beginning of divided highway
0.30.19Howard Avenue
1.81.16th Concession RoadEastbound exit and westbound entrance
3.01.9 
Toronto
Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

  1. ^ Highway Transfers List – "Who Does What" (Report). Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. June 20, 2001. p. 18.
  2. ^ Murray, Aileen (March 31, 2014). "Municipal amalgamation: The impact on economic development in Chatham-Kent". Papers in Canadian Economic Development. Vol. 10. University of Waterloo. Retrieved January 16, 2022.
  3. ISBN 1-55198-226-9
    .

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