E. C. Row Expressway

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The E.C. Row Expressway is an isolated freeway serving the central portion of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It runs generally east-west through the city, near its airport and various automotive manufacturing plants, among other areas. It is approximately 15 km (9.5 miles) long. The freeway was formerly part of Highway 2 but it was downloaded to municipal authorities in 1998 when Highway 2 was almost eliminated in its entirety. The speed limit is 100 km/h (65 mph).

Though it allows for easy travel across the city, it does not connect directly to Detroit, Michigan; the Ambassador Bridge and Detroit-Windsor Tunnel must be accessed by city streets. Similarly, Highway 401, which leads eastward out of town, also has no direct connection to the E.C. Row.

For many years after Highway 2 was downloaded to municipal and county authorities in Ontario, E.C. Row Expressway was a city-owned and city-repaired road. In 2003, the Windsor Star reported that the Province of Ontario would assume responsibility of the expressway once more, and lists it having the secret designation of Highway 7187. (Source: [1])

The expressway is named after E. C. Row, the former president of Chrysler Canada.

[edit] List of exits

Kilometre Post^†	Intersecting Roads
1	Matchette Road (westbound only)
2	Highway 3, Huron Church Road
3	Dominion Boulevard
4A	Dougall Avenue
4B	Howard Avenue
6	Central Avenue, Walker Road
8	Jefferson Boulevard (eastbound only)
9	Essex County Road 117, Lauzon Parkway
10	Essex County Road 43, Banwell Road (at-grade intersection with traffic lights)

Exits are not officially numbered.

At Banwell Road, the freeway ends and continues as Essex County Road 22, a major arterial roadway with at-grade intersections and traffic lights. The grass median ends at Lesperance Road; the road narrows to two lanes east of Manning Road (Essex County Road 19).

[edit] Notes

One kilometre west of Matchette Road, there is a light-controlled intersection with Ojibway Parkway/Sandwich Street.

Dougall Avenue lost the designation of Ontario Provincial Highway 3B, and was formally decommissioned in 1998. It is now known as Dougall Avenue and Dougall Parkway (from Howard Avenue Interchange to Highway 401). (From Christopher J Bessert's article on Highway 3B)