Grading for aborted dual-carriageway

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Highway 2 was graded east of Saint Joachim and west of Chatham to become a dual-carriageway in 1938, but the onset of the Second World War put those plans on hold. During the war, the Department of Highways could only do emergency repairs, so it spent the war polling drivers in surveys of where they would like any future dual-carriageway roads to go. Once the war ended, the Department of Highways decided that upgrading Highway 2 would be too troublesome (especially in and around the towns), and decided on an all new, all-controlled-access freeway from Windsor to Toronto. Thus, Highway 2 was bypassed by Highway 401 starting in the 1950s.

Similar work was done between Oldcastle and Essex on Highway 3 and Essex County Road \34/.