Province: | ON |
Dougall Parkway | |
Alternate Name: | Highway 401 (north leg) |
Length Km: | 1.6 |
Length Ref: | [1] |
Direction A: | East |
Direction B: | West |
Terminus B: | Interchange with Dougall Avenue and Howard Avenue |
Cities: | Windsor |
Counties: | Essex County, Ontario |
Type: | Expressway |
Dougall Parkway is a municipal expressway in Windsor, Ontario. The expressway acts as an extension of Dougall Avenue and serves traffic heading towards the Windsor city-centre and the Detroit–Windsor tunnel.[2] The road is named for former mayor of Windsor James Dougall.[3]
Dougall Parkway is a short 1.6km (01miles) controlled-access highway that begins after connecting ramps split off of Highway 401. From the split, the expressway travels in a west-northwest direction having interchanges with 6th Concession Road and Howard Avenue.[4] It is at the intersection when the expressway passes under Howard Avenue where it transitions into Dougall Avenue.[5]
Dougall Parkway was constructed as one of the two western forks of Highway 401 in the mid-1950s, connecting Highway 401 with Highway 3B (Howard Avenue).[6] Somewhat confusingly, Dougall Parkway was officially numbered as Highway 401 along with the other leg of the fork, with Dougall Parkway being the north leg.[7] In 2008 to 2010, as part of the reconstruction of the section of Highway 401 from Dougall Parkway to Provincial Road, the Dougall Parkway split with Highway 401 was reconfigured, replacing a one-lane 1950s-era underpass tunnel with a modern high-speed flyover ramp.[8]