County Road 22

The County of Essex and the Municipality of Lakeshore are preparing to make major enhancements to the County Road 22 corridor between I.C. Roy Drive and West Belle River Road. These enhancements will be based on the recommendations of the County Road 22 Environmental Assessment Study (2006) and the County Road 22 Corridor Alternatives and Strategies Study (2022), as well as input received after Public Consultation Centres held in June of 2024 and March of 2025.

Public Consultation Centre: March 20, 2025

Thank you to everyone who attended the Public Consultation Centre and thank you to everyone who has taken the opportunity to provide feedback. We still want to hear from the public. Below, you can review the exhibits presented at the Public Consultation Centre and you can provide your input to the project team via email.

Public Consultation Centre: June 2024

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback about the detailed design presented at the June 18, 2024, Public Consultation Centre. This input from area residents and other stakeholders is being used to update the design. The modified design will be presented at a the second Public Consultation Centre on March 20, 2025. The updated plan was approved by Essex County Council on Sept. 18, 2024. 

The first Public Consultation Centre about the design was held June 18, 2024, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Atlas Tube Recreation Centre in Belle River. The deadline for public comment was July 12, 2024. The information provided at the Public Consultation Centre is available here:

Background

Improvements incorporated in the initial design included a multi-use path on the south side of County Road 22, a sidewalk on the north side and separated cycle tracks to support active transportation within the corridor. The design also includes a consolidation of accesses to County Road 22, new municipal services, new traffic signals, illumination, pavement improvements and property acquisition.

It is expected construction will be done through two contracts. The first contract will be for reconstruction and expansion of County Road 22 between West Belle River Road and Rourke Line Road. The second will be for reconstruction and expansion from Rourke Line Road to I.C. Roy Drive.

The County Road 22 Corridor Alternatives and Strategy Study was presented to Lakeshore and Essex County councils in March 2022. The slides for the presentation to Essex County Council provide a summary of the study.

See the March 16, 2022, presentation to Essex County council below.

Contacts

Please contact any of the following for more information or if you wish to be placed on the project’s contact list:

Steve Taylor, P.Eng., M.Eng.
Consultant Project Manager
BT Engineering Inc.
509 Talbot Street
London, Ontario N6A 2S5
519-672-2222
stevenj.taylor@bteng.ca

Daniel Baggio, P. Eng.
Project Manager
County of Essex
Infrastructure and Planning Services
360 Fairview Avenue West, Suite 315
Essex, Ontario N8M 1Y6
519-776-6441
engineering@countyofessex.ca

Krystal Kalbol, P.Eng.
Corporate Leader – Operations
Municipality of Lakeshore
419 Notre Dame Street
Belle River, Ontario N8L 0P8
519-728-1975 ext. 655
kkalbol@lakeshore.ca