Driving into Downtown Toronto From the West End (Nov 2021)

A Toronto driving video that starts off in Etobicoke at Sherway Gardens mall. I head east along the Gardiner Expressway into downtown.
Recorded in 4K at 60 FPS with a DJI Pocket 2 on Saturday, November 6, 2021.
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[@LexLExistor]

Thanks for maintaining such good lane discipline and space between the driver ahead of you. I'm always glad when people don't tail gate. PS do this video at night when the core looks incredible from the Gardiner!

[@ayoCanada0921]

Can't tell you how much I enjoy watching this Video, what an excellent ideas to get a clear Day like this 🎉 When I lived in T.O the past 2 decades ago , with a career that allowed me to drive on this beautiful QEW on every weekday ! And the Gardener is always a goosebumps traffic jams if one wish to go North of Spadina.

[@JohnnyStrides]

Thanks!

[@jschap712]

What I always did once upon a time whenever I (frequently) drove to TO for business was take Lakeshore Blvd for a good distance then turn left onto Yonge. It was probably a bit slower (depending on traffic), but getting to see the lake, the CNE, etc, was always nice. I really felt like I truly arrived once I emerged from under the Gardiner and saw the Hockey Hall of Fame.

[@viraldush5462]

Thanks for starting the drive vids been waiting

[@corinnelaking569]

Pretty typical urban crunch traffic. I used to commute from our home in Oshawa into a job at Ryder Transportation at their Kennedy Rd Scarborough branch. What should be a 15 minute drive often took 1.5-2 hours. That was done almost 18 years ago and I honestly don't miss the commute. I love driving. I love visiting Toronto. Absolutely no way do I enjoy combining the two activities. Great video, much enjoyed it. 🙂

[@robertkeller7420]

Hey Johnny - really enjoyed your video. Currently residing in Nova Scotia but grew up in Etobicoke and spent nearly every Saturday shopping with the family at Sherway Gardens. That mall has taken a complete change since the days in the late 70's and early 80's. Back then they had grocery store Dominion and Loblaws - Simpson's was on one end and Eaton's on the other. The mall back then could be best described as a number 8 layout. I remember they had an arcade and in my highschool years we would head down after school or weekend to play a few games. My favourite place back then was McDonald's that was beside just regular stores - there was a food court though my memory has a Timmies - chinese takeout - my last time I went there was in 2016 and things had seriously changed even then. Within 30 years from now people of today won't recognize it either...lol

[@liberalculler5087]

Summer of 1990, I was 14 and my family drove to NY (to visit family in the Hudson Valley about an near West Point). We journeyed across NY to Rochester, Buffalo then Niagara River. Eventually we crossed the border over to Canada headed to Toronto. What immediately stuck out was how CLEAN Toronto was compared to NY City.

[@essgee4225]

That’s a huge Cactus Club in the beginning.

[@roundaroundplaces]

I love this place. I hope i can do my driving and walking vlog tour here..more power to your channel.

[@davidjonathansunga2779]

Great drive

[@normamimosa5991]

Palace Pier and Palace Place are amazing condos. Huge. Waterfront views to die for and relax in total calm after a hectic work day. They are in a gated community. Need a pass to get in and out. Makes such a difference. Not a spec of litter or garbage. Beautifully manicured lawns and lovely flower beds.

[@ostbagar3]

Nice carride! Don’t think i seen you drive live before but i can have missed it before i found your streams😃TC!🖐

[@basicchannel3089]

Good video! Keep it up 👍🏻

[@kathleenwallace1165]

This is such a familiar drive to us , as we always take a taxi in from the airport when we come visit Toronto! Thanks for your video and commentary!

[@paulabarton9493]

Great video i enjoy a variety of ways to do things and you seem to always do that one way or another. I think the camera worked out well.

[@TheEntreprize]

20:05 I routinely watch your videos at 1.75x speed on mobile, and 2.25x on laptop/desktop. No chipmunk sound, BTW. Usually have to wait until I think your live (or premiere) is at least half the way completed though to watch it all the way thru.

[@therealman2620]

Enjoyed the drive despite the traffic on the highway. Thanks!

[@pioneertheworld]

Awesome! Love it!!

[@alvaroboschet1231]

Very nice video Johnny thanks.

[@johnmckenzie4639]

Another great video Johnny. I used to take this exact route to work every day for almost 30 years. I can't believe the explosion of condos along the Gardiner from Exhibition Place to Jarvis that have cropped up since I last made the trip in 2017. I sure miss the city views on the drive in, but I sure don’t miss the traffic. Happy birthday and I hope you had a great steak at Barberian's.

[@leadnsteel1428]

Toronto is all condos now. They keep cramming more and more in

[@adityapatkar6494]

Happy belated birthday Johnny!! 🎊🥳

[@joshabooth]

When I was a kid, my mom's friend lived in Longbranch next to James Bell Jr. middle school. Every summer I'd stay with my mom's friend and her sons, and we'd go around skateboarding, playing video games and generally being a menace to society. When you passed the Evans Ave exit, it brought back some fond memories. We used to take the bus to Sherway Gardens sometimes and walk around because my mom's friend didn't have air conditioning. Also, Barbarians is amazing. I highly suggest to anyone who hasn't been, that they go.

[@josefmuglia6524]

Nice video. In pre Pandemic times, everyone I would take to Toronto for the first time would think the condo towers of Humber Bay was Downtown.

[@kevinblack16]

lol. Must have been a cool feeling.

[@nanaokyere7141]

@@kevinblack16 Someone else asked me the other day if the skyline in Mississauga was downtown Toronto lol.

[@munishverma3938]

Happy belated birthday Johnny🎷

[@archicurate9421]

Yaaas the driving video!!

[@ramiabram6010]

Amazing video ❤❤❤

[@schnuurtchke]

This area of Toronto is another area I know really well!🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@sandraashton868]

Another relaxing driving video hope that you enjoyed your birthday dinner I am starting to eat out at pubs and restaurants again now that our restrictions have eased by a lot it's just so lovely to eat something you haven't cooked yourself!!anyway a big g'day mate from Melbourne Australia 👍🍔🍟🍕🌮🍜🍩🍺🇦🇺🇨🇦

[@amywilliams6696]

Happy birthday johnny

[@elianeliu6259]

Awesome 🥰🥰🥰

[@Wardo44]

4 TTC buses stop at Sherway: Sherway 123, Queensway 80, Evans 15 and I think the all night 315 bus (never taken that one).

[@animeadventures1127]

Happy Birthday

[@CommentLordHandle]

Wow 👌 these roads look very.... good

[@mikedrown2721]

👍😊

[@theonetechmaster3028]

The city of the Future.

[@karlroth7082]

41 bottles of beer in the trunk, 41.bottles of beer.... Sherway mall is big!

[@rich7447]

Really Eglinton should have been upgraded to a freeway in the 70s. It could go from the 401/427 interchange to Kingston Rd picking up the DVP and Allen Expy. Kingston Road needs an upgrade from the old Greenwood Raceway to the 401.

[@JohnnyStrides]

That would have been utterly idiotic. Building highways induces more demand and destroys neighbourhoods. It solves nothing but creating more gridlock.

[@rich7447]

@@JohnnyStrides Toronto does not have enough east to west freeway capacity and hasn't since the 80s. This was the original plan when the Allen was built. Demand already exists and you know that if you have been on the 401 in the last 40 years. Stop trying to push Euro BS.

[@JohnnyStrides]

@@rich7447 Induced demand... look it up. More highways solves nothing. We're finally starting to shift away from the god-awful era of the car anyway. Keep thinking backwards though ;)

[@rich7447]

@@JohnnyStrides I know what induced demand is, I started my university life in commerce and economics. There is no induced demand in Toronto. The demand exists and is right in your face. Making life hell for people is not decreasing demand.

[@pagkaingpangnegosyo]

Looks like Bonifacio Global City

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[@acyborwn3222]

Hi Johnny

[@amywilliams6696]

I love watching your videos, but yo think you will ever do a vlog with your parents or friends

[@rajindergupta8482]

👍

[@mariajohnson3409]

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@spirittravels.]

recorded on iphone or osmo pocket 2?

[@JohnnyStrides]

Pocket 2

[@NipFungoli]

You gotta get Communauto, $50/day $.40/minute in Mtl. I think its the same pricing in TO. Reply here if you have q's

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[@YahKuracha]

I'm excited this video I'm still not review some of your video

[@theonetechmaster3028]

The city of the Future.