Toronto traffic sucks

[dagibbs]

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.

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[curgoth]

Mostly, by avoiding the Gardiner whenever possible. Or driving at all, really.

[kali-kali.livejournal.com]

What 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.

[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.

[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.

[luckytroll.livejournal.com]

It isnt Toronto (or Montreal) without at least one traffic Jam.

[foms.livejournal.com]

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35359.wss

[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.

[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.

[progeer.livejournal.com]

You assume they drive, they don't ;)

[tocityguy.livejournal.com]

There are reasons why I'm giving up my car in two weeks.