Driving to Toronto via Highway 401 (about 300 km)

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This is a video of driving from Rockport (a small town about 300 km east of Toronto) to northern Toronto (specifically the 401/Allen Rd. interchange). Rockport offers cruises on the St. Lawrence river in the 1000 Islands area.

The drive begins on a local road called 1000 Islands Parkway, followed by a drive on the short Highway 137, which connects Highway 401 with the US border, after which it continues as I-81. Then, we merge onto Highway 401 (westbound) and go all the way to Toronto. Finally, we exit to Allen Rd. (northbound), which is part of an urban expressway whose construction was mostly canceled, although a small part of it is still built to motorway standards.

This video covers around 300 km of Highway 401 in several sections that I filmed, sped up, and joined together (my camera's battery would not last through this whole trip if I were to film it continuously). This should be sufficient, since most of the drive on the 401 is quite monotonous.

This video also captures quite well (albeit in the dark) the collector-express system of Highway 401 in the vicinity of Toronto, which at some points makes it one of the widest roads in the world. It is quite interesting how it slowly grows from a 2x2 motorway to the monster that it is in Toronto.

This video was actually made at about the same time as my "Driving to Ottawa/Gatineau via Highway 416" video (it's from the same trip), but I was just too lazy to get to it in time. As a result, it is also somewhat poorly made and has some camera shake issues, since I didn't have a mount for it. The dirty windshield problem is made worse by the fact that there is permanent spray paint on it, which only becomes visible when the sun is shining directly at it.

The music is:
September - La La La
Bob Sinclar vs. Fireball - What I Want
Bob Sinclar vs. Craig David - World Hold On vs. Hot Stuff

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• driving
• rockport
• toronto
• 1000
• thousand
• islands
• highway
• 401
• collector
• express
• allen
• ontario
• canada
• car
• road

[jland904]

Great Video im supose to drive to Toronto from Chicago in a few months great city. By the way what song is that the very first song?

[Kot1234]

@jland904 Thanks, the song is "September - La La La". All the songs are listed at the end of the video's description.

[onemanband08]

Great video. I hope you post more like this.

Thanks

[Kot1234]

@onemanband08 Thanks. Several videos are indeed coming, with much better quality (1080p), but I have to find some time to upload them :)

[charby09]

all i can say is thank goodness for the ETR we never take the 401 into toronto when we head north looking forward to your vids this spring and summer bud

[Kot1234]

Thanks, the ones coming up will hopefully be in HD quality :)

[MrSpike416]

CANADA BEST PLA

CE ON EARTH!!!

[thebesternestoever]

Cool video..the music is good and entertaining, the sights are very intertesting...300 km from Toronto is a long drive! hahaha...Canada rocks!

[lemonrind]

I really hate the drive to Toronto. Once the collector/express starts it's fun because it is exciting and there is plenty to see. But the 4 hour drive to get there from Ottawa sucks. It's tailgaters, slow pokes, speed demons, lane hoppers, and trucks, trucks, trucks (all passing each other) the whole way. I hear they are going to widen the 401 to a minimum of 3 lanes per direction for its entire length. That would be nice.

[rcoasters]

@ProWrestlingProvider They are building new rest areas. There are like 2-3 open for now but they're totally rebuilding all of them.

[ProWrestlingProvider]

THey got rid of all the rest stops on the 401. Not sure why, but theyre all pretty much gone

[47jlk91]

Great vid mate makes me want to visit Toronto even more now. Hope you post some more and thanks for an entertaining 9.24 seconds :)

[scooper70]

Love the video. Love the song. Couldn't find it on iTunes Canada though. Where did you get it?