Driving from Mississauga to Waterloo via Highway 401

NOTE: Please watch this video in high quality.

This is a video of me driving from Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto, to Waterloo, a city of about 100,000 people, around 120 km west of Toronto.

Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate on that day, and we were caught in heavy rain during several segments of the trip. It gets especially bad toward the end, where visibility is reduced almost to zero, although it gets better again at the very end.

Also, at about 1:43 there is a small discontinuity in the video because my friend (who was holding the camera) paused the recording for approximately 1 minute (which is negligible).

The drive begins in Mississauga, then onto Highway 401, followed by Highway 8 and Highway 85 (also known as the Conestoga Parkway) after entering the municipality of Kitchener-Waterloo via the 401. I tried labeling the major streets and freeways in the video. Highway 401 is somewhat famous for being one of the largest roads in the world in certain sections, but this particular drive does not capture these sections :)

The auto focus on the Mini DV camera sometimes focused on my dirty windshield instead of the road, but these glitches are temporary.

The whole trip is around 90 km in length, sped up approximately 7 times.

The music is:
ATB - Eternal Swells
ATB - The Autumn Leaves

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• driving
• toronto
• mississauga
• sauga
• waterloo
• kitchener
• highway
• 401
• 85
• conestoga
• parkway
• erin
• mills
• ontario
• canada
• car
• road

[99pitbulls]

you say in the description that mississauga is a suburb, and waterloo a city? lol mississauga has over 700,000 ppl and is the 6th largest city in all of canada, and waterloo has 100,000...

[Kot1234]

Waterloo cannot be a suburb of Toronto because it is too far.

[seinfeld120]

why dont you go through toronto?

[Kot1234]

Toronto is in the opposite direction, why would I go through it? If you are asking why I didn't start my drive in Toronto, well, it's because I had to stop by Mississauga first :)

[shantibloo]

love your song selection for some reason i love watching videos of driving....relaxes me :p

[daveni2]

Columbia and Weber at the end there. That was quite a storm looked like Tornado material the way the clouds were moving opposite the ground level wind.

[daveni2]

@z24baller The GTA officially goes from Burlington in the west to Clarington in the east and York region to the north, including towns like Orangeville, Halton Region and New Market, york region. What you think is the GTA is the amalgamated City of Toronto with all the ex-boroughs that was The municipality of Toronto. There is Metro Toronto which has almost 6 million people but the GTA actually extends farther than the Census Metropolitan area. Most people don't know this, it's amazing.

[steinman1231]

Used to live in Toronto. Moved to Kitchener :(

[z24baller]

@Kot1234 Damm your right,my bad when I thought greater Toronto area. I thought just Toronto and surrounding divisions scarbrough,missisauga and etobicoke,and north york. But looking in depth its halton,york and part of durham and peel.

[Kot1234]

@z24baller Actually, you are wrong. York Region is one of the regions which are part of the GTA (the others being Durham, Halton, and Peel), and the City of Toronto. Scarborough and Etobicoke are part of the City of Toronto (along with York, East York, North York, and the old City of Toronto) - they are not individual constituents of the GTA.

[z24baller]

@mikejay007 Markham and Vaughn is in York region. So not part of the gta but in the burbs surronding the gta area. gta is Toronto, Scarborough and Etobicoke and Mississauga. Oakville and oshawa are in too differnt suburbs.

[thebellrang]

@jlmadill

Yeah, but Hazel's awesome!

[mikejay007]

Mississauga is a part of the Greater Toronto Area which makes Mississauga like Vaughan, Markham, Oakville, Scarborough and Oshawa a suburb of Toronto. Just sayin

[StarszChaser]

nice effort mate :-) worth watching !