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McHugh Street – Little River Bridge

Thu Aug 20, 2009 @ 3:30am

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The McHugh Street extension between what’s called the “East Riverside Planning Area” and the WFCU Centre, opened last week with the unveiling of a new bridge over Little River.

Unlike the often-dubbed “Bridge to Nowhere” over Little River on Wyandotte Street, the new McHugh St. bridge sets this neighbourhood up to become a strangely significant traffic passageway — with this extension being the only direct thoroughfare between Lauzon Parkway and Lesperance Rd. in Tecumseh, aside from Tecumseh Road or Riverside Drive.


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The bridge was part of a plan dating back to 2004 (pg. 44) for an extension of McHugh Street around the Lear Plant’s lands, and into the East Riverside Planning Area.


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It is however somewhat strange to have a four lane arterial road entering a proposed residential neighbourhood.  Hopefully, the only congestion that results because of this road will be before and after Windsor Spitfires games, or else residents may be fuming over fumes!

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  • http://photo404.com Darren

    we rode over this on our group bike ride on tuesday. : )