Northbound Don Valley Parkway, Toronto

This video follows northbound Don Valley Parkway thru the city of Toronto.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Don Valley Parkway
• Don Valley Pkwy
• Toronto
• Don River Valley
• Ontario
• freeway
• highway
• Canada

[CocaBabi]

that guy in the cocaine white benz at 1:15 is BAD ASS !! 100 thousand dollar machine driving clean baby.

[FreewayBrent]

@CocaBabi: Haha, I never really noticed that vehicle in my video, to be honest, until you mentioned it.

[bj615]

You could have just integrated a 404 tour into the DVP tour, its essentially the same highway. Nice job.

[FreewayBrent]

That's very true, but considering that locals know the Don Valley Pkwy and the 404 as separate roadways, I wanted to do the same. Plus it's fairly hard to find a 7 minute song, although I do have a decent collection of 7 minute+ dance songs.

Thanks for the commentary.  :-)

[Bryant5493]

Nice.

[FreewayBrent]

Thank you. :-)

[Freewayjim]

Very nice, loved those old viaducts & overpasses along the way.

[cacofonico74]

five stars as always

[griffon001]

I lived in Tornoto and it's a very nice video. Could you please put on another one with normal speed?

[ThePrincelee]

I live in Toronto and DVP probably has the heaviest congestion in TORONTO..

[TheOntarioguy420]

i used to live in toronto and dvp got annoying because of high traffic but thanks to cp24 in downtown toronto i didnt fuckin piss me out

[alexandro79721]

@gleno61927 102.2

[gleno61927]

What is 73% of 140?

[t1mTV]

home sweet home.

[njam101]

A municipal freeway. The others in Toronto are the Gardiner Expressway and the Allen Expressway. Not sure of any others in Canada.

[njam101]

@njam101 Thinking about my many travels, Newfoundland and Labrador used "route" on their signage.

[jhonnydrama]

one of the main reason there is so much traffic on the dvp because it bottle necks all the way down to wynford i should know i live down there

[bvivian]

Congestion on the DVP... i don't beleive it.

[EdM021]

You know where you can find overpasses like that in the Northeast? Try the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut or the GW Parkway in Maryland and Virginia. But unlike the Don Valley in Toronto, they don't allow TRUCKS on Parkways in those three states, neither in New York State nor in Massachusetts. At least there, the name Parkway MEANS something. If Toronto had the same restriction, your drive might have been a bit quicker. :)

[MiddletownDreamz]

who is the artist and song title?

[ting280]

@FreewayBrent there's always tiesto with his hour-long cuts you can tap into... i know you wanted to film it so you kinda got stuck but next time exit lawrence west and take don mills road north to sheppard. you can get back on 401 or 404 from there. if you make a channel called ShortcutsBrent i can help you out with Toronto and southern ontario :)

[ISinisterI]

hate this stretch...always get stuck on it

[nihaoma248]

nice! Toronto looks like a really nice area

[musicbrain5]

3:05 - you passed my house! My backyard goes as far back as the DVP pretty much. The noise is not too bad on weekdays though because the traffic is usually heavy so cars aren't going terribly fast, especially heading south towards downtown.

[Lochness19]

@7366DIESEL

Yeah, there's a dealership (and maybe local HQs?) there.

[adrianroam95]

Hey freewaybrent, wanna come over here to Vancouver, BC again in 2013? By that time, the PMH1 (Port Mann/Hwy 1) project which involves the widening of one of our only freeways in Metro Van to 8 lanes, and the construction of soon to be the widest bridge in the world, will be completed.

[njam101]

@Yazdmich Quebec has routes because "route" is the French translation of "highway." But Ontario and I believe most other provinces call them highways.

[ejafus]

@aswchris

The lighting was replaced around 5-10 years ago;

The lower DVP (start of the video) has small, low, but bright lights that shine only down. The highway in these sections is lower than buildings surrounding, so it isn't any more obtrusive, thankfully, than standard lighting.

The upper sections have the high-mast lighting, and they too are mostly below surrounding buildings (the highway's in a valley). The lighting, while bright, is aimed only at the highway itself.

[ejafus]

@7366DIESEL Yes

[7366DIESEL]

at 26 seconds is that a bmw logo on the sign bside that building

[wookieinheat]

@Yazdmich

the DVP and gardiner expressways are owned by the city of toronto, not the government of ontario. the 404, 401, 400, etc are owned and maintained by the province and are highways, the DVP and gardiner are expressways or 'routes'.

[wookieinheat]

@CocaBabi

thats a mercedes C300, costs a bout $40,000 with options and everything, not $100,000