Traffic from Markham to Mississauga

[love0715]

HI I live in York Region near Yonge/hwy 7. There's job that i am interested but it's in Mississauga....near Sq One.

If i take hwy 401 west all the way from my home to Mississauga during rush hour , how long it will take ?
Or i drive along hwy 7 west all the way to hwy 400, hit south and then get onto 401 how long it will take?


I try not to take hwy 407 due to $$.


Thanks
TC

[ShinNoodles]

HI I live in York Region near Yonge/hwy 7. There's job that i am interested but it's in Mississauga....near Sq One.

If i take hwy 401 west all the way from my home to Mississauga during rush hour , how long it will take ?
Or i drive along hwy 7 west all the way to hwy 400, hit south and then get onto 401 how long it will take?

I try not to take hwy 407 due to $$.

Thanks
TC

I'm not sure you'd want to be caught in the mess of 400 southbound @ 401 during rush hour. If you ever listen to traffic reports in the morning, it's always [extra] congested there. How about hwy 7 to 427? 407 may be expensive, but with the way gridlock is getting worse in this city, your sanity may be worth more to you. Just keep that in mind.

[NorthYorker]

What time of the morning exactly? I'd say that if you plan to be @ 401/Allen around 8 am, it is passable (about 5-10 extra minutes on top of travel time assuming empty roads). You're mostly OK in express lanes to 400/401 (kill me if I know why express slows down there, there're no merges), then it is 50 km/h crawl all the way to Weston and traffic generally picks up somewhere between Weston and Dixon. If you travel even earlier, it's even better. 8 to 9 am is worst. Now, how to get to 401/Allen is THE million-dollar question. Allen itself (south of Sheppard) is OK, but there's no truly good way to get there from your place. Dufferin is the least painful, but that's not saying much. Yonge is to be avoided. Bathurst is bad, but not truly awful.

[xvizardx]

Read my post

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/toronto-mississauga-1153428/

I live in East Oakville, that's a street away from Mississauga and I work in Scarborough. I take 403 and 401 everyday.


I live in Oakville and I work in Scarborough.

Traffic not bad Monday to Friday if you go BEFORE 7:00 am.
Traffic 9:00 am onwards until BEFORE 4:00 pm is fine.
Traffic 6:30 pm and onwards you're okay as well.

I take 404 -> 401 -> 403 everyday for 2 years now. :)

140 km/h in the highway left lane, you're there in 20 to 25 minutes. ;)

Hope this helps.

[sandikosh]

HI I live in York Region near Yonge/hwy 7. There's job that i am interested but it's in Mississauga....near Sq One.

If i take hwy 401 west all the way from my home to Mississauga during rush hour , how long it will take ?
Or i drive along hwy 7 west all the way to hwy 400, hit south and then get onto 401 how long it will take?


I try not to take hwy 407 due to $$.


Thanks
TC

First thing first. Yonge/Hwy 7 isn't Markham. Secondly, it will take almost an hour either way to get to that job.

[qaz393]

this should be moved to motors....

[joep]

does your workplace allow flex hours? If you leave home at 6 you'll save alot of time

[spike1128]

Don't do it OP. Commuting to saga for a job is not worth it. 1.25 hrs one way during rush hour. Not to menti
on gas spent everyday.

[DirtyDave]

Trust me the commute on hwy 7 or 401 is insaine.. I used to do the same commute every day to Weston road. Trust me as painful as it is, 407 may be your own realistic option

There is another option you should concidering if you do not wish to pay 407 tolls. There is a go transit bus that leaves from the station at silver city at young and 7. The bus travels the 407 and makes only 2 stops. The first us terminal 1 Pearson airport, and the second is square one mall. I have taken this before and the trip to square one costs something like $6 or so. May be worth concidering. You can park for the day at silver city. $6 is definatly cheaper than gas and 407

[shop ahoy]

+1 to DirtyDave's suggestion. Where you live and where you work are like opposite corners of a square. There is no easy way to get from A to B.

Without 407, under ideal conditions, maybe 40 minutes. Real world commute (if incident free) is more like 60 - 75 minutes. If there is an accident, or if weather conditions are poor, count on 90 ++ minutes. Taking the 407 is not much better. It is not going to cut your commute time by half, as you still have to navigate local roads to get to your final destination. It might shave 20 minutes off, but will cost you up to $8 (Yonge to Hurontario). As you are paying this with your after tax money, it is equivalent to $10 of your pre tax pay. And If you think that you can bypass all the traffic mess by taking the 407 only during poor weather conditions, think again. Everybody else will have the same idea, thus nullifying the supposed advantages of that toll road.

[NorthYorker]

First thing first. Yonge/Hwy 7 isn't Markham.Yes it is. SE corner is Markham. Although most folks would call it Thornhill to distinguish from, ahem, boonies :)
Secondly, it will take almost an hour either way to get to that job.Yes, that sounds about right. 45 minutes to an hour.