Highway 401 Eastbound, London, Ontario

This video shows Highway 401, the busiest highway in North America, eastbound through London, Ontario, a city with about 400,000 people. The majority of the route in the city is rural as the highway bypasses the urban area to the south. This video also shows the partial interchange with Highway 402, an important junction for long distance travelers.

Forgive the bumpy parts, this was the first time I filmed on the road. The thing you see in the windshield reflection is a leg for the camera tripod... sorry it's there but again this was my first time doing this.

The video starts west of Highway 4 and ends at the Veterans Memorial Parkway interchange (the video response).

The video was taken by a Sony HX5V camera and has been sped up 3x to keep it interesting. Hope you enjoy it!

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[trasaful]

you where going so fast man!!

[haljackey]

@trasaful The video was sped up 300%....

[seanrdesrochers]

you said london is the largest city without a freeway to serve local traffic, what about Winnipeg, it is larger and the perimeter has traffic lights......

[haljackey]

@seanrdesrochers Winnipeg has some sections of the perimeter and TCH that classify as freeways. Much of the system is a also used by people living in the area.

Both London and Winnipeg could do a better job improving their respective systems.

[VaFreeways]

Nice video.... I guess this is a remake of the original song? It still sounds awesome. The original can be found on the Ministry of Sound: 15 years collection (the past album) on itunes.

[haljackey]

@VaFreeways I just find a song that matches the length of my video, and stick it in if it sounds good. :P

[zyawotha]

music is perfect

[TheJbomber]

@Herdervriend youtube.com/watch?v=hVgo6gUjGT­U Freeloader Dave Darell

[sheltv100]

@PlanneCrash12000 Acutally there is. The Trans-Canada Highway 2 in New Brunswick has just been rebuilt as a full expressway has it? I travelled there in 2003. The TCH 2 was already an expressway in Edmunston, at the I-95 exit, and the rest of the way from Fredericton to the Nova Scotia line. The whole TCH 2 is supposed to be an expressway, so is NB 1 and a local belt highway in Moncton.

[sheltv100]

Don't forget, the highway 401 is NOT the Trans-Canada Highway. It's just an Ontario Provincial route that is built to carry traffic within Canada's most populous corridor between Windsor and Montreal. If you ask me, there should be a 300 km/h high speed train line in that area where the 401 runs.

[Kyukanbun]

What is the result when trucks use left lane illegally in 3-lane freeway?

[EasilyWowed]

Well done.  Very well documented. Honestly, the tripod leg reflection in the windshield I hardly noticed until I realized you had mentioned it. Good job!

[shmuli9]

@seanrdesrochers Winterpeg DOES need some freeways. Some of my cousins live there, and apparently they think it's "normal" to stop-and-go... Not the freeways are EXACTLY a cure to heavy traffic, but really! The Disraeli freeway is a whole 2km long... (Who thought of this?)