It’s sometimes hard not to laugh over the apparent expectations of “congestion” experts for commute times. Today its reported that “all those stuck on the Gardiner Expressway (and) the Don Valley Parkway” should know that their time in transit is “the longest among Canada’s big cities.” Statistics Canada puts the average trip at 32.8 minutes. Shorter than New York and Washington but not much. Then, seemingly with a straight face, writer Bruce Campion-Smith, in the Star, adds that among Canada’s “metropolitan areas” Saguenay, Thunder Bay and Moncton have the quickest average commute at 17 minutes. This would seem to say it all. If you want to flit to work in mere moments, go to Thunder Bay or maybe get a position down the street.
