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Going for dinner from Mississauga to [edit]Danforth Bloor[/edit] and (essentially) Pape, I expected traffic to suck. But coming back to Mississauga again at 9pm, I didn't expect 25 minutes of stop-and-crawl along the Gardiner. How do people who live here handle the traffic? Ugh.

Date: 2011-09-15 03:24 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] curgoth
Mostly, by avoiding the Gardiner whenever possible. Or driving at all, really.

Date: 2011-09-15 03:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dagibbs.livejournal.com
Yeah, I guess that works. Sadly, I don't know my way around well enough to avoid the Gardiner, when doing trips like the above. And, I'm not sure the 401 is a better alternative.

Date: 2011-09-15 04:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kali-kali.livejournal.com
What [livejournal.com profile] curgoth said. I spent 19 years of my life living near Toronto, and for twelve of those going to Toronto at least once a week, and the number of times we took the Gardiner wouldn't number more than a handful.

Date: 2011-09-15 04:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metalana.livejournal.com
Given that it's impossible to get to Bloor & Pape, I imagine it would have taken you a long time. (Bloor turns into Danforth at the Don Valley, just to be pedantic.)

Yes traffic here suuucks. I laugh whenever Ottawans complain about rush hour. (Even more hilarious when Peterborough residents mention rush hour.) For the route you mention, it might have been worthwhile (or at least less stressful) to park the car at Kipling and take the subway to Pape.

Date: 2011-09-15 12:21 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] curgoth
My Woodstock, ON parents have never gotten the hang of driving in Toronto, so growing up, trips to the city always consisted of driving to Kipling and then taking the TTC the rest of the way in, or even doing the first leg on the GO train.

These days, I am a Toronto Driver, but there are large chunks of the city where I just pretend there are no roads.

Date: 2011-09-16 04:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dagibbs.livejournal.com
Right, Danforth and Pape. Fixed. :)

Since I'm likely to do that again, I'll look at the subway choice. It might be better.

Date: 2011-09-15 10:42 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sabotabby
Great to see you last night, even briefly!

This is why I don't have a car. Well, part of why I don't have a car.

Date: 2011-09-16 04:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dagibbs.livejournal.com
Yes, was wonderful to see you, and give you IRL hugs, rather than online ones.

Date: 2011-09-15 03:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luckytroll.livejournal.com
It isnt Toronto (or Montreal) without at least one traffic Jam.

Date: 2011-09-15 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foms.livejournal.com
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35359.wss

Date: 2011-09-15 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/niall_/
Oh yeah. I was in Toronto last weekend, going back and forth from Mississauga. (amusingly enough.) Waiting at College near Spadina, as a friend was driving back to North York to pick up someone and come back, what should have been a 40 minute round trip as we had just made the half of that in 20. Forty minutes later, I call and they haven't even arrived to the halfway point yet. This on a Saturday. It was nasty.

I took the subway to Kipling to meet up with them, and arrived barely after them.

Date: 2011-09-16 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladymondegreen.livejournal.com
I was once utterly amazed by driving with my uncle to his house, from my aunt's house in less than 15 minutes. "But," I said, sputtering, it takes an hour to drive from auntie D.'s house to your house."

He looked at me like I was nuts. Apparently it only takes my parents, who haven't lived in Toronto in three decades an hour to drive that distance.

Date: 2011-09-16 05:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] progeer.livejournal.com

You assume they drive, they don't ;)

Date: 2011-09-16 03:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dagibbs.livejournal.com
I KNOW they drive. I saw them, in cars, all around me, getting in my way, slowing down my trip.

Date: 2011-09-18 01:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tocityguy.livejournal.com
There are reasons why I'm giving up my car in two weeks.

Date: 2011-09-18 01:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dagibbs.livejournal.com
Yeah, if I lived & worked in Toronto, I might think of doing that, too. Ottawa doesn't have as good transit, nor as bad traffic, so a car still makes sense here.

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