Windsor Suburban Roads - County Road 34

County Road 34

Talbot Road
County Road 34
Location: Windsor, Tecumseh, Oldcastle, Maidstone, Essex, North Ridge, Cottam, Ruthven, Ontario, Kingsville, Leamington, Ontario, Wheatley, Ontario
Length: 44 km (27 mi)
Existed: 1809, 1818 (to Essex), finished 1823–present

County Road 34 is the original alignment of Highway 3 in Essex County, Ontario.

The road branches from the original Highway 3 alignment in Maidstone, Ontario (just north of Essex, Ontario, and continues east, paralleling the current Highway 3 (and South Talbot Road) 1 km to the north, and 1 km south of North Talbot Road, for most of the way to Ruthven, Ontario.

The stretch of road from Windsor, Ontario to Manning Road was built with enough right of way to be twinned into a dual carriageway in the 1930s, but this has not happened, yet.

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