the_yellow_dart

From where? Fox? CNN? The CBC looks quite intelligent and unbiased next to any American news service.

I've mentioned this here before! Chrysler's been doing this for years.

I find it frightening that there are people willing to PAY for some of those people! Woof! I think one of the worst ones I've seen looked like Maynard from Tool in a long blonde wig and a tight pink vinyl dress. SCARY!!!

Jarvis/Wellesley This is the closest major intersection to me too. Do you live right nearby? I live on Homewood Av.

The traffic is actually not that bad... I used to commute from downtown to Pickering every day. Took about 35 minutes. For a 40 km drive, that's not bad at all.

In my case, public transit is faster. I have about a 6km commute to work. It takes me 10 minutes to walk to the subway, and 15 minutes to ride it work. It would take longer than 25 minutes to drive there, because it's inner city and the traffic's bad. So - it is the faster way sometimes.

That's exactly the problem. We need to get more people using transit. I only use my car on weekends now.

I'm implying that Miatas and Solstii will breed different "preferences" of children. Just kidding!

Depends, are we breeding jailbait for Croc or BV?

Let me explain. The inside lanes are the "express" and the outside lanes are the "collectors".Generally, you can only get on or off the highway via the collectors. The express will go for 5-6 km at a time with no exits or entrances. The idea is that with nobody merging, less people change lanes, and the highway flows better. See how Avenue, Bathurst and Keele are all clumped on one sign, all 6km away? That's the next transfer to the collectors, which is the last chance for you to catch those three exits. If you find any of this confusing, you can always just stay in the collectors, and you'll never miss an exit. There are some rare exceptions where there are exits directly from express as well, generally these are only to other freeways.

They're not cheap. They're novelties for the rich and the tree huggers.

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Old article, but still interesting... Gridlocked GTA ECONOMY DINGED BY EVERY CRASH ON THE 401 - NORTH AMERICA'S BUSIEST FREEWAY By BRIAN GRAY, TORONTO SUN Ready ... set ... GO? Waiting the hardest part No Easy Way Out THE "PHENOMENAL" number of vehicles on Hwy. 401 as it cuts through Toronto makes it the busiest freeway in North America -- and each collision can cost Ontario's economy thousands of dollars. Traffic on the 401 has doubled in the past 25 years and now averages 410,000 cars an hour, said Phil Masters, the head of the province's advance traffic management centre, commonly known as the Compass system that monitors traffic throughout the GTA. "Hwy. 401 is definitely the most heavily travelled freeway in North America, probably the most heavily travelled freeway in the world," Masters said. "We're up close to 500,000 on peak days, which is just a phenomenal number." That staggering figure compares with 380,000 on Los Angeles' famed freeways and 350,000 on the I-75 in Atlanta. The huge volume has also changed the job of the officers who police it, said Sgt. Cam Woolley of the Ontario Provincial Police, which investigates 15,000 collisions a year on the 401 in the Toronto area. "Collisions have gone from being merely inconvenient to a severe danger for police, drivers and the factories that now rely on the goods being shipped on the road," Woolley said. He said a four-hour closure of three or more lanes can hamper businesses waiting for inventory to be delivered. Lanes used to be shut down for eight to 14 hours while investigators did their job. Now, with heavier tow trucks, damaged cars and trucks can be removed and lanes re-opened quicker. A complete towing cleanup can cost as much as $30,000, Woolley said. "Hundreds have been injured and many killed over the years in secondary collisions," he said. Overhead message boards, introduced in 1991, have cut down on secondary collisions by at least 12%, Masters said.

Interesting. How does owning a car built in Hiroshima make you feel?

How can you even say this without going through the pain of childbirth? I feel I have no right to oppose abortion, since I am male.

I thought that was something you photoshopped on there. That's awful 68. Take it off!

I got to thinking after all this B-pillar / hardtop b***hing going on... Why can't we have a coupe that has a B-pillar AND a roll down rear window? Has that been done, and if not, is it possible??

Biggest Loser Buick –28.2% at 13,234 (4/06: 19,971) ouch...

I drove gently at first, probably for about 5,000 km actually. I always change the oil according to the computer that came with the Cobalt, which is somewhere between 10,000 and 11,000 km per change.

Another thread just reminded me of a really dumb question I got as part of a Popular Music elective. A listening question. They played a track from Metallica (can't remember which one, not a single). This is: a. The Rolling Stones b. Metallica c. Nirvana d. AC/DC That's probably the first time I've laughed out loud in an exam.

Commanding the dead? Yeah, I'm not nice to Ford.

Strange, thoughts of Ford put Metallica in my head...