 At Banwell Road, Highway 39 jogged south from Tecumseh Boulevard to the Pike Creek Bypass, now Essex County Road 22, which it gently curved east onto.It followed that modern route south of Pike Creek, through Puce and Belle River, then curved south to end at Highway 2

The road originally travelled along what is now Essex County Road 2 (Tecumseh Road), where it led straight into Windsor along today's Tecumseh Road.In 1961, the two-lane limited-access Pike Creek Bypass was created (and would eventually link up with the E.C.