Living downtown, working Brampton...
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Depends on a lot of factors, including whether you're driving vs. taking transit and what time of day you'll be traveling. I can drive from the downtown core to Cannonball in Brampton in about 35 minutes if traveling around midday.
I won't even visit my family in brampton or sauga on the bus. let alone work.
When rogers cable is calling about an interview for the brampton location I always tell them no.
Even when shopping channel called me to go out to an interview out in mississauga I told them to send me to thier home agent positions.
I don't drive and I hate the commute outside of toronto.
and from what I have seen with drivers on the road I am not too much in a rush to get my driver liscence to join them in that chaos.
When rogers cable is calling about an interview for the brampton location I always tell them no.
Even when shopping channel called me to go out to an interview out in mississauga I told them to send me to thier home agent positions.
I don't drive and I hate the commute outside of toronto.
and from what I have seen with drivers on the road I am not too much in a rush to get my driver liscence to join them in that chaos.
Serpent said:
Which is in the south part of Brampton, near the airport
The drive should not be too bad!
Don't forget.. MDS is just down the street!!.. Cannonball is right around the corner!
I used to work in Miss. north 401 mavis and live by the beaches. Some days it would take me 30 mins and some 45. But you are going against the inbound traffic flow...It all depends on what wingnut caused an accident on the gardiner at what time.Keebler Elf said:
I found that if you can get around the spadina/bay/yonge mess you have pretty much smooth sailing all the way up the 427 and westbound on the 401.
Here's what I'd do: if you're down by harbourfront I'd get on the gardiner at the jones on ramp, stick to the right lane all the way to 427, shift over to the left lane at the islington onramps. You will miss a lot of the crap. I think in 6 months of working out there I only ran into trouble on the 427 once and that was during a bad storm.
If you decide on Bloor/yonge you should still take the gardiner not the DVP. It is screwed anytime after 7 am north bound. (backs up from york mills all the way to don mills after that). I'd take spadina south to lakeshore and again, get on the gardiner at jones. Traffic basically stops from Jarvis to spadina westbound to jones (because of the big curve and the jones on ramp being so short and blind).
Although, if you don't own a place downtown already, you can get more bang for your home buck by buying a place in mississauga or etobicoke. You'll pay about 50% more for a place in the core. I'd look at the skyview lofts by the palace pier. I looked at phase one and they were pretty freakin nice for the money but I chose not to because they aren't real live work lofts....
DOn't kid yourself, I've used the 407 and whenever I did, it was a parking lot just like all the others. Even the 401 westbound at rush hour is fucked up to just west of weston rd where the collectors merge with the express. Then you have to come home and the 401 eastbound is toast eastbound.Serpent said:Thanks tboy, that's significantly helpful.
Etobicoke - no thanks.
Mississauga - it's no downtown.
I'd consider Yonge and Sheppard and use the 407 but it's not the same as staying in the core.
One thing, coming back to the core on the gardiner you'll hit a slow down at the lakeshore exit most days and sometimes you can get all the way to jones before it stops completely but rarely is it moving after the lakeshore exit. If you're thinking of something down on harbourfront, the lakeshore exit is the place to get off at. You do hit the various lights but at least you'll be moving.
