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From: johnb@sq.uucp (John Brown)
Date: Tue, 2-Aug-88 13:34:00 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Aug2.133400.29902@sq.uucp>
Newsgroups: tor.general,ont.general
Subject: Re: What's the best way to get out of Toronto on Friday? (SERIOUSLY)
References: <8422.1988Jul25.22:42:00@me.toronto.edu> <1988Jul30.130347.2438@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: johnb@sq.com (John Brown)
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Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
Keywords: map speed traffic

In article <1988Jul30.130347.2438@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> woods@gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
>
>It's too bad the answer is moot.  Maybe for next time...
>
>[ I have to answer, cause I can't stand the terribly glib attitude of
>those who have answered (and Ontario drivers in general).  As you can
>see, I stayed in town this weekend! ]
>
>The best way is, of course, to chose a lesser traveled route.  Get
>yourself a GOOD map of the area, and avoid anything with more than 2
>lanes.  I've never had a problem with Hwy 27 nor Hwy 50 (except that
>they don't go very far north).  If you're going to Simcoe, etc., try
>Woodbine Ave., etc.  In this case there's nothing with more than 2 lanes.

I had e-mailed the original poster on this, but since it seems to
have generated so much discussion, I'll throw in my two cents worth.
Getting out of TO on a Friday is not nearly so bad as it's made out
to be if you know what you're doing.

From downtown TO, you get on the Gardiner (wherever) and go to
the 427 North; follow the 427 to Dixon Rd. (by the Constellation
Hotel) and turn left onto Airport Road.  Go straight north thru
Brampton and take any one of a number of left turns to Hwy. 10
and take it straight north. 

That route gets me to Owen Sound in just over two hours.  Tobermory
is about another 1.5 hours north.  As a point of interest, I left
Toronto for Owen Sound at 5:30 last Friday and made it to Owen
Sound in 2hrs. 20mins. 
>
>						Greg Woods.
>
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John Brown
SoftQuad Inc.
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