It's a 30 mile drive, which can range from about 35 minutes to an hour, it depends whether the morons are out driving or not.
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Depending on how restrictive your definition of 'Downtown Toronto' is, I do live and work in the Downtown Area... but the PATH isn't that great of an option.
(I don't think it's an acronym is it?... but the name is all caps, strange.)
If I used the PATH I would have to:
1) Enter at King/Front and Yonge (about 10+ minutes outside anyway)
2) Then take the PATH up and over to York and Richmond
3) Head back to Queen and Yonge and the Hudson's Bay/Eaton's Centre
4) Go all the way to the top of the PATH at the Atrium,
5) Then go outside again for about 5 minutes to get to the office!
It's just not worth it! I just bear the cold/heat and try to get to the office via cutting through parks and parking lots as per usual. Mind you I have told my boss that if it's below -30 I'm not leaving my condo... though I could take the TTC...
"Each letter in PATH is a different colour, each representing a direction. The P is red and represents south. The orange A directs pedestrians to the west, while the blue T directs them to the north. The H is yellow and points to the east."
From here. I didn't know that. I though it was an acronym.
Fair enough, it isn't a very direct route for you. I used to live at Front and Jarvis, so the King and Yonge entrance was the closest to me too. I only used it on those especially cold days, otherwise I would grin and bear it too. I would usually walk up Victoria (after stopping at the Tim Hortons at King and Victoria) and then cut through that crappy mall that has the Ministry of Transportation office and the passport office. Then, up a couple blocks to the Bay and through to the Eaton Centre.
It cut the walk in the cold down significantly.
Don't have to deal with that anymore though..........
My trip to work is a 10 minute drive, in winter it's about 15 because of the wet roads. This morning it was 20 minutes because the highway was so water logged and people were driving slowly
I remember that one, on Temperance
I don't think there has been an LCBO in that mall for years. How long ago are we talking? It does, however, have a crappy electronics store and a stamp/coin store that every once in a while displays Nazi chess pieces in it's window.
Technically, it's not on Temperance street, since that street begins/ends on the west side of Yonge street, and the mall is on the east side of Yonge. But I get what you mean. Details, details
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Depending where on campus I have to go, it usually takes me anywhere from 2-15 minutes to get to school. Work is about a 7 min drive, 10 if there's traffic.
About 10 minutes to the longest "site", but then some driving ensues in the course of my "work".
Driving is actually kinda therapeutic for me, but I'm also rarely stuck in traffic.
Every time I'm stuck in the regular morning/afternoon traffic(about once or twice a month) of a big city I think of how it much suck to be stuck in that traffic everyday.
For those of you who sit in stop and go traffic daily, how do you do it? I always just moved closer to work, or moved work closer to me.
10 minutes if I make the light. 15 minutes if I miss the light. 20 minutes if I sit through two lights!
When I lived in Los Angeles I dealt with the traffic by listening to music and just not focusing on the annoyance of it all. The ability to do that has a distinct ebb and flow though, sometimes you just want to scream, other times it's no biggie.
Usually 30-35 minutes in the morning and about 45-50 minutes in the afternoon. Fracking Baltimore Beltway and I-95.
I didn't know that either, that will help the next time I'm in there and some poor lost soul asks for directions!
Yeah you were living fairly close to me (Bellissimo Restaurant would be the half way point between our places). The one good thing about walking in Downtown Toronto is the ability to avoid the elements almost entirely... mind you in L.A. I would suspect people don't have to worry so much about that.
Before I moved to Toronto I drove in from St. Catharines (about 130km or 80miles one way) and it was hell, taking more than 2 hours each way. I did that for about 3 months before I broke down and found an apartment here. But my Dad did about the same commute from the opposite direction for 7 years!
to this day I don't know how he did it. Upon his retirement some of his car pool buddies got a big map and drew (with colour coding) some of the routes my Dad had invented to avoid traffic, it was quite funny (which now is on display in is workshop)Ah Temperance street, some summer days I used to eat lunch at the park there, but as Surely pointed out the LCBO it isn't there anymore. My main reason for going there, the Indian restaurant called Spices, is now closed... coincidentally the owner of that place moved to Oshawa and will be opening up a restaurant there. Lucky you!I remember that one, on Temperance
Funny that, but I find, because I don't actually have to do it, the 2-hour Friday afternoon home trip doesn't bother me that much.
Always some peeps in the vehicle, and sometimes the conversation gets quite animated.
I live five minutes away from work and love it. I've been minimally impacted by the whole gas crisis thing. Way better than my last job, which was almost 25 miles away.
Traffic isn't a daily thing for me, only when some moron crashes his car on the interstate (usually at least once a week though) and I just turn up the music and try to relax. Although with constant clutch in, 1st, clutch out, clutch in, neutral, clutch out, clutch in, 1st, clutch out, rinse and repeat, it's hard to sit back and relax in traffic.
I am only in high school, so this commute is only from September through June, but for this past year, my morning commute to school took about 80 minutes on average, while my afternoon commute usually took about 45 minutes. That was on a school bus from the local shopping mall into the city, as they have tripled the price for this coming year, I will probably switch to driving in by myself on some days (should take me about 60 minutes in to school if I leave early enough, and about 30 minutes to get home), and take the local commuter rail on other days (should take me 45 minutes to get in and out). So my average commute is around an hour.
During my Work Term - 4 min (about 2.5 blocks)
During my School Term - 2.5 minutes (about 1.25 blocks)
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During my School Term - 2.5 minutes (about 1.25 blocks)
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You got that right. I love my stick shift, but after an hour and a half of doing that, it starts to get me annoyed.
I telecommute for a company 900 miles away, so it's a rough five seconds from my bedroom to my home office every morning.