Buying A New House... Need Some Advice, Please!
- Thread starter Mina
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traffic is good up to Meadowvale, from Meadowvale to Victoria park is really bad.
I normally exit on Morningside, take Milner all the way to MCcowen, or I can also take Sheppard, anything is better than 401.
Nice! I'd be getting off at the Kingston Rd exit. Decided I want to be in that part of the city so a 30 minute drive to work is very reasonable. I have to be at work for 9 am on most days and I didn't want to be stuck in the car for an hour each morning. Puts my mind at ease. Thanks!
That you're only going to scarborough is a big plus - Kennedy seems an all-day "hit the brakes" conundrum, so avoid that mess.
My wife commutes from Ajax to the DVP & Wynford and she wakes up at 5:30 for a reason. I work from home so I don't give a ****.
My wife commutes from Ajax to the DVP & Wynford and she wakes up at 5:30 for a reason. I work from home so I don't give a ****.
Slim Jim
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Try doubling that to an hr minimum.
Not sure about an hour, but a quick google "no traffic" map shows 32 minutes from clarington to your work Mina. You're pushing pretty far east. Probably good bang for the buck housing-wise, but that will come with some travel time cost.
From Brock street (HwY 12) to Meadowvale is 20 min tops, I do it everyday unless I take the 407, however not sure how long from Clarinton to Brock Street
That's exactly it, houses out there are very reasonably priced compared to what's available in Ajax in terms of square footage/cost. Every time I drove out east in the early AM (7ish) there was never any traffic heading west. So I'm optimistic.
Slim Jim
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He will hit Oshawa traffic from Stevenson or Thickson to Henry St, that's about an extra 10 to 15 mins, then he will do about 70 km/h until Salem, plus you have to add from the house he buys to the highway and then when he exits the highway to his work.
1 hr minimum from door to door
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Slim Jim
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No traffic going west at 7 am you must be doing it on weekends then. There's always traffic from Stevenson /Thickson to Henry St starting at 6 am
Slim Jim
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Other things to look at. There's lots of development now in north Oshawa, the new highways from the 401 to 407 being built will attract more people on the 401 from Bowmanville. The drive home is worse, depending on the time you make the drive, usually it starts around 2:15 now and gets worse the later it gets.Summer months are even worse going home,. It's not unusual to be sitting in traffic from Whites Rd to Thickson Rd on Friday's during the summer. If you can afford to buy in Toronto or as close as possible do it, it's only going to get worse.
Living close to work is how it was done in the golden age of the industrial revolution. It didn't used to be something to get swarmy about. Thankfully that's changed. I ride the bicycle when I can, it freaks people out.
It would be interesting to know , sure stats are somewhere, how many people commute 30-60-90 mins to work. I did 40 mins at one point, never again if I can help it and that was from the country into city. Knowing what I know now , I'd never commute more than 30 mins, life is too short. (current commute is 44ft from kitchen to my office) , I'm not convinced buying a house for X dollars less and burning out a car every 4 yrs and living in traffic is any deal at all.
I'm an hour each way usually. I hate it and it's the worst part of my job. I work all over the city (except east of course) so it's hard for me to move close to work. I'll be downtown for 3-6mo then out towards markham for the next job. Even if I wanted to move closer to the city I'd have to spend double what I paid for somthing comparable and down sizing isn't an option unless I sell off everything I've worked for so far. My wife also commutes to the city but takes the go train. I need to be within a 10-15min walk from union station to my job site or I'd have to catch an earlier train and take the ttc....I'll drive thanks.
I leave my driveway in north west oshawa at 5:50, on the 401 at 6 and there's traffic from thickson to almost Salem everyday then just past morningside to the dvp. Going in is consistant but coming home is a whole other ball of ****. You could end up with traffic from port union to thickson and that's at 3:00. Thursday/Friday you'll be backed up from Pickering to possibly Stevenson and again that's at 3pm. Right now I'm out on airport rd so I take the 407 on Thursday/Friday to come home. Even it's backed up now for 1.5km at the end in Brooklin. Rain/snow add atleast 20-30min on your commute. It's taken me 4hrs to get home in the snow before but it's generally 2-2.5 hrs if there's a storm.
I leave my driveway in north west oshawa at 5:50, on the 401 at 6 and there's traffic from thickson to almost Salem everyday then just past morningside to the dvp. Going in is consistant but coming home is a whole other ball of ****. You could end up with traffic from port union to thickson and that's at 3:00. Thursday/Friday you'll be backed up from Pickering to possibly Stevenson and again that's at 3pm. Right now I'm out on airport rd so I take the 407 on Thursday/Friday to come home. Even it's backed up now for 1.5km at the end in Brooklin. Rain/snow add atleast 20-30min on your commute. It's taken me 4hrs to get home in the snow before but it's generally 2-2.5 hrs if there's a storm.
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Red_Liner740
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Spent the week in LA for work. Why more people dont ride here is puzzling. Year round riding weather and best of all they are allowed to filter while from 2pm all the highways are gridlocked.
And yet i see very little scooters, its mostly ss and cruisers. Strange.
And yet i see very little scooters, its mostly ss and cruisers. Strange.
Slim Jim
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Left my house at 7:26 Harmony and Taunton and just got to my office, Victoria Pk and 401. Strange part, the drive from Harmony and 401 through to liverpool was a lot better then usual, and from whites rd to Victoria Pk was a lot heavier then usual. It took me 30 mins to get from my house to 401 and Kingston Rd.
This is correct, on the way back home, traffic basically starts at Whites and it is hell all the way to Salem. However there are other ways.
I go up Whites to Taunton, then take a side road all the way up to north of 7, then go east using concession road 7. No need to take the 401.
