Construction of the new roundabout at County Road 42 and Manning Road is now complete.
By the Wednesday afternoon commute, traffic can move in three directions in the roundabout.
"The roundabout will be open but it will be open for north/south directions and the east direction but we still have County Road 42 closed to the west for construction," said County of Essex Director of Infrastructure Allan Botham.
Construction on County Road 42 west of the new roundabout is expected to continue until mid-2026.
The total project cost is $23 million. To date, the project has been on budget and on schedule.
"It's definitely a problem solved, it's going to keep the traffic moving. We get a lot of complaints about people sitting at the lights and there's a lot of accidents with impatient people so I think it's really important for that," said Lakeshore Deputy Mayor Kirk Walstedt. "It's also going to keep a lot of the traffic off of our Class B roads, both in Tecumseh and Lakeshore where we get trucks a cars just beating the heck out of our roads and this will keep them here on this road because they can move a lot faster now."
This is the second two-lane roundabout constructed by the County of Essex along County Road 42 since last September.
