Downtown Driving

There are no good commuting options for me for going downtown after 9am during the week. My first movie this morning wasn’t until 11am, so by the time I arrived at the GO station it was absolutely jammed; all the official spaces were taken and so too were just about all the ones “outside the lines” but not completely blocking the laneways. After much searching, it was one of these that I found.

Last night I thought about driving to the Kipling subway station, but from what I’ve heard the parking lot situtation is like this in the mornings, too. At least at the GO station it’s much closer and I can allot more time to searching for parking.

I don’t really want to drive downtown on weekday mornings, since traffic is unpredictable, parking for the entire day is really expensive, and I think I’d have to deal with full parking lots from the tail end of rush hour.

At the end of the day, driving my own car would be great! 2nd best option would be the flexibility of taking the subway, but this takes about an hour to get home (granted, I can count on it being this duration all the time). GO is the most comfortable, but only has hourly service later at night.

For earlier in the morning, parking for GO isn’t so bad and considering that traffic is much worse at that time, then this is definitely the best option. Maybe I should think about walking to the station (about 25mins) or look into city buses that go there.