06-30-2017, 09:53 PM
(06-30-2017, 07:55 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(06-30-2017, 06:48 PM)panamaniac Wrote: I'm impressed by the hoops that some seem willing to go through to get to the airport. I've had the experience of using Airways Transit when the 401 was bunged up - the dispatch alerted the driver and we took detours (twice!) to get around the problems. I think we lost perhaps ten to fifteen minutes on the trip.
Yes, and that's a great argument for transit of some type, because they have dispatching and stuff, but it's still possible to be on the road between exits when a collision completely shuts the highway. I've been there, sat for hours in the middle of the 401 before police re-opened. Fortunately I was returning home, and didn't miss a flight, but it could still happen.
Once I was driving home from the airport at night on the 401, and realized there was no traffic coming the other direction. Not light traffic, I mean really none whatsoever. After several minutes of this, sure enough, collision in the other direction, followed by kilometres of absolutely stopped traffic. Not a good scene.