[NefCanuck]

P-51,Feb 6 2006, 01: Wrote:Accidents and weather can happen on any highway.  So... is this just a general warning, or is the 400 particularly bad?  How often are we talking?  From what I saw, it looked fine.  Like, on Friday I drove down the 400 from Oak Ridges to 407, between 9 and 9:30AM.  The traffic was "light" by my definition.  Rolling at 120 with lots of room.

So what's the deal?

The locals said that when the 400 gets clogged, you can take the back roads to get around.  There's tons of farmers roads in the area.

The problems really are the summer weekends, when the weekend warriors overload the SUV's and hit the 400 to head north. In the summer the run from the 407 where I get on to Major Mackenzie, which is normally a 15 minute run can take upwards of an hour esp. if any events are happening at Canada's Wonderland <_<

Winter weather on the 400 can go from nice to undriveable in a flash esp. in & around Barrie owing to the lake effect snows from Lake Simcoe. Something to think about...

The problem with local roads is that they're just that, dinky little two laners that become jammed solid the minute the 400 goes to hell and in the winter they're nothing more than death traps...

NefCanuck