As a brit I thought I was well prepared to face the 401 highway in Toronto. After that experience I sincerely hope the QEW and Gardiner are a little more forgiving!

chuckles..........

don't even think of the Don Valley Parking lot at this stage.

It's not the volume of traffic that gets me but the signage, or lack of, the seemingly permanent construction work, and of course the idiots.

Welcome to Ontario

It's Monday. Just wait for Friday.

Also welcome to the good bit of Canada from me.

Less busy, but more prone to construction closures (and the 401 has had one or more lanes closed in summer since I've been here).

Thanks Novo, its good to be here at last

Ill do my best to avoid the DVP and the 401 but have no choice on the QEW. going to drive from Mississauga to downtown tomorrow morning, hopefully not to scary!

The scariest bit is Mississauga.

It's the whole collector business that usually screws me up. I'm on the express bit and need to be on a collector to get to my exit. Oh bugger.

They have clever new-fangled things called road signs. They're often blue.

and in the wrong place!

try and stay in the lane that forks off. Less angst and forking off that way.

Waddya mean, the wrong place?

And at the risk of crossing up two threads, I'm forking off tomorrow.

Us folk from the provinces have enough to do in fighting with other drivers to find time to read the road signs (in time.) Fortunately, on Thursday AM when I arrive back in the UK we are being collected rather than having to do battle with the M25 at 07:30am.

I have to make my way down Hurontario the QEW. Going to leave at 8 and see how it goes

As the QEW becomes the Gardiner, at about Jameson, pick the middle lane. It looks wrong but, on the inside of the curve, the traffic snarls.

the M25 is childs play compared with the chaos I witnessed on the 401 today