Ontario Highway 401 - Kitchener to Ajax - Toronto Freeways - 2020/03/27 

Same here

I love highways

I like all kinds of roads, especially highways.

It's practically empty on weekends, the majority of traffic is trucks nowadays

Sadly that is the only good that came out COVID 19 is that the 401 is always flowing through Toronto

absolutely correct and you can compare this to its Northeastern counterpart Interstate 95 Florence. NJ to the Bronx,NY buses and Trucks are dominant from Woodbridge Exit 11 to Secaucus 16e Academy buses NJ Transit 319,115 114 113 & 112 Coach USA 100. 17 years earlier you would have expected the same thing with SARS

It’s also worth noting how easily THE ABSOLUTE WORST/BADDEST/DUMBEST/MOST INCOMPETENT DRIVERS driving slowly nowhere near the far right lane with a whole line of cars riding on their ass is all it takes for traffic flow to START breaking down. But not completely thanks to the obvious situation of the time unfolding the 2nd half of the month of March within the horrible year that was 2020…

Ontario seems to just prefer a more compact form of urban design than many other US cities. The cost of home ownership in Toronto the city is fairly high, so highrises are popular for those that don't want to move an hour out into the suburbs.

The space is not as much as you think. The real amount of habitable land is much smaller than the size of the country.

Hitech - yes, Toronto is extremely overpriced. The per sq.ft. prices here rival Manhattan and the Bay Area.

@@AsphaltPlanet1 It's not just Ontario, Alberta and BC are like that as well.

you've definitely been tor Toronto then.

I'll film more of the 401 at some point in the future, but for right now, that stretch of highway is pretty well covered.

Start of the Pandemic/Lockdowns thats why

Same, I was planning this year but the virus completely ruined it for me

When i were Canada and traveling on the 401 i were so amaze at the flyovers

i think I did pretty well through the traffic all things considered. This was filmed on a Friday evening. I can't remember the last time I got through the 401 with so much ease.

@@AsphaltPlanet1 good to know someone took very full advantage of the initial Covid wave… everyone cleaning out every grocery store for wiping paper while you see potentially a ONCE. IN. A. LIFETIME. opportunity to tape the Greater Toronto stretch of the 401 with minimal congestion… And even then there’s a whopping CRAP TON of people blocking the left lane, much less “professional” commercial vehicles looking to merge left with a KNEE JERK REACTION because they MIGHT lose literal seconds of time if they stayed in the far right lane before incoming traffic accelerated to the better part of 110 mph. Perhaps some widening projects should be postponed until it’s abundantly clear to most of the entire driving public that being the slowest driver on the highway OUTSIDE OF the far right lane is not only dangerous, but noticeably impacts traffic flow in the most negative possible ways.

Glad you enjoyed it

I don't have any immediate plans to do a night time drive through Downtown, but I can see doing another one again in my future. I drive a Ford Escape, but many of my videos are done in other cars.

This was recorded probably between 6:00 and 7:00 or so on a friday evening (at the start of the Coronavirus shutdowns).

Probably for visual separation, but the entire 407 toll expressway uses blue guide signs too

The German autobahns usually use blue signs.

@@CrystalClearWith8BE Many Euro countries use blue signs, some for their freeways like the Autobahn and some for their secondary highway network like Italy.

I believe old signs are green and new ones are blue.

2:34

The right lane used to end before it does now, so I think they did it as a force of habit.

@@AsphaltPlanet1 Ah that explains it.

check out my 418 video. I do the eastbound 409 in that.

Basically, the 409 is an alternate spur of the 401 connecting the 401 east to the 427 on both directions and the Toronto Pearson International Airport. Also, you can use this if the 401's kilometers 352 to 355 are congested. If you're from the 401 westbound and if you want to take the 427 southbound, take the 409 westbound and take a loop to the 427 southbound. If you're on the 427 northbound and you want to take the 401 eastbound, while in a large interchange, stay in the 427 until you take a ramp to the 409 eastbound and it will lead you to the 401 eastbound.

This was filmed with a Sony AX33