It may end up as a road to nowhere, but the $1.6-billion Windsor-Essex Parkway is going to be a reality -- and very soon, the president and CEO of Infrastructure Ontario said Thursday.

Whether a new international bridge in Brighton Beach ever gets built or even if Michigan backs out of the proposed $5-billion border infrastructure effort, construction will start "almost immediately" in Windsor on a new border highway in the Talbot Road-Huron Church Road corridor, said David Livingston.

"The road is going ahead," he said.

"Not everything has to happen at the same time. We believe the bridge and U.S. work will go ahead, too, but this road is going ahead."

Livingston came to Windsor to unveil the three consortiums selected for the short list to design, build, finance and maintain the six-lane, nine-kilometre parkway.

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