Highway 407 Station to "Downtown" Vaughan | Suburban Toronto Walk

[@tattmatter4963]

Couple sleeping at the beginning was wholesome lol

[@margd77]

Desolate is an understatement, Johnny! 😂

[@NanaDots]

Love this video . I go to Vaughn once in a blue moon. Usually by passenger in a car. Vaughn is growing great share. 💕

[@georgehoward9306]

Thank you for sharing this. When I used to visit Toronto I never visited this area.

[@ALuimes]

For one of the least-busy stations, Highway 407 station is very busy in this vid. And most people are headed for the bus terminal.

[@azamyahmad]

Another great video and as always beautiful walk away tour, keep it up Sir .. TQSM

[@ameerahmed6623]

15:55 i believe it is $62 from burlington to oshawa one way

[@hbbstn]

I love his rants 😂 right side people 😂 it gets worse as you age

[@brentsarazin6597]

I get that feeling like that song where they..'Paved paradise and put up a parking lot', but very modern and also absent of that 'Mom and Pops' living spaces, as you mentioned.

[@sepandttcexplorer]

Good morning Johnny! Great walk along Jane St from Highway 407 station to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station. I’ve been to those stations on the line 1 subway extension many times! Have a great Friday everyone!!

[@sepandttcexplorer]

@@SheenaRoberts you too Sheena! Thank you!!

[@nandeezy_]

How Scenic!

[@Xenomorph-hb4zf]

Most people use this subway station for the bus terminal.

[@Sunjib12345]

Nice Walk Johnny

[@evolvetravel1]

Are there any shops around there? Someone may watch this out of curiosity of what there is around there. Even as a potential area to live. Looks like just road and condos pretty much, but I know there has to be more.

[@NanaDots]

Love this video 💕

[@andymod]

It is not surprising that there are no people walking, it is kinda expected in a place where a highway interchange with no any destinations in proximity. It would be more interesting to see what is inside area of residental towers.

[@Aces77777]

Wow you finally came to my town🎉

[@martym61]

Nice suburban video. Great views of sun and sky. Notice the trees are starting to change color.

[@franklynmars3207]

Helloo johnny Strides! sup bro hoped your day was super easygoing and for sure i had a quiet long weekend it was a blast lol. This was a good Desolate city of Vaughan livestream walk you did weeks ago from hwy#407 station On-route by foot to vmc station area and soo great to see its upcoming booming electrifying condo skyline which for sure started off small but richness in its wishes and hopes...it's soo close to me i go up there a lot, plus Walmart is 9min walk frum tere..ok cheers

[@ahurafarahani7751]

Tbh Highway 407 and Vaughan Metropolitan Stations would make great testing sites for the US army's missles and so would the Yonge North extension north of Steeles :)

[@dylanreynolds8264]

good morning everyone

[@tejida815]

Good morning ☔️

[@WaslonLopes]

In 2019, I used to go to this station in order to take the bus to Wonderland. The buses in Vaugham station were crowd without avaliable seats.

[@jacksonbourret7810]

The Highway 7 overpass that goes over highway 400 is very unique! The sidewalk and bike lanes are all in the middle of the road, with Jersey Barriers as protection. There arr no sidewalks in the side. That's to prevent conflicts between drivers accessing the highway 400 ramps and pedestrians. You should go there during a stream! I would suggest doing a walk on Highway 7 from Jane St to Weston Rd.

[@JohnnyStrides]

I'll look into it!

[@ALuimes]

2:12: Fun Fact: For most of its history (1968-2017), much of the subway system wasn't in the "City of Toronto", but in the former other boroughs/cities of Metropolitan Toronto, but that wasn't seen as all that notable as Metro was all TTC territory and perceived as defacto "Toronto" by lots of people.

[@unknownuser0006]

The sky looks gorgeous with these clouds. Weird to see a place with such few pedestrians.

[@yeshuapleaseprotectthechil2150]

50% Fake.

[@iainsanders4775]

Normal outside town/village centres in the UK. I often feel 'strangely alone' perambulating amid buildings & invisible canned humans. Post-apoc sci-fi scene!

[@thefozzybear]

Vaughan is not pedestrian-friendly, it's car-centric.

[@yeshuapleaseprotectthechil2150]

@@thefozzybear As I watched the video, I was almost constantly worried for his life with all those vehicles whizzing by. No heart.

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

You never been to Winnipeg hahaha! Babies even drive cars around. People drive to the corner store! People go from their attached garage to car to a parkade at work to a drive-thru fast food, get fuel at a full service gas station, and back to that suburban home. Men go to their caves and wives to the the livingroom, and that is most of Winnipeger lives.

[@pervaizkhan2312]

Great

[@yeshuapleaseprotectthechil2150]

I'm still with you. I could cry. 😭😭😭 Actually, I could scream. Run, run, run away as fast as you can. Anyway, thank you for your courage.

[@ayoCanada0921]

Vaughan known as the City above Toronto. Have worked in that city 1995

[@areenakju]

Gm.johnny❤❤😊😊

[@IsInteresting]

Highway 407 costs can be seen online they have a site that changes rates according to time of day and days. In real numbers I personally take it coming from Oakville to Dufferin Street at 3:30pm on a weekday. The total cost without a transponder is close to 50 bucks. Around $47 Can if the price didn't change. It helps me to avoid the worst parts of 401 going back home to Toronto.

[@zigzag00]

When it comes to Toronto suburbs Mississauga and Oakville definitely have a lot more to do imo. Markham and Vaughan seem to be improving their city centres though slowly but surely!

[@robertsteele6453]

A Borg spaceship has more life 🙃

[@yeshuapleaseprotectthechil2150]

I'm with you.

[@InADarkTavern]

It used to be a pretty industrial area but now they are making it more human

[@Krispy416]

Why would anyone want to spend a million dollars on a condo there. Like you said no community feel, not much around the views from a balcony in Vaughn are not worth it.

[@yo-yotension4613]

That is not enough. You must develop from Milton to Whitby north to Newmarket to serve all GTA. This will reduce traffic and need for more expansion and new 400’s highways that are poorly designed.

[@mattslowikowski3530]

There have been similar masterplan developments: for example, Canary Warf, La Defense, or Moscow City (a neighborhood in the city of Moscow). This one seems very much in flux. It has good transit connectivity right now though, and I expect it to look much nicer in 10 years. It will rival Mississauga, and possibly be better than Mississauga imo.

[@noddybrown3074]

Hi Johnny.

[@pauly5418]

I was passing through the area for the first time since they started building VMC to visit someone at the new Cortelucci hospital. I suppose the buildings kind of look nice on their own, but I didn't see anything else but condos. In the years before the subway extension was built, I remember reading about the planners for this area in a North York community newspaper. They were looking at North York City Centre and they were criticizing it for being largely condos and supposedly lacking other amenities that make it a downtown. Haha! I have to say nobody seems to be interested in building anything but condos at VMC! NYCC has more going for it than VMC. So where are those planners now?

[@andrew20146]

These days, the 407 is about 57% Canadian owned. 50% ownership is held by the Canada Pension Plan (so, basically all Canadians) and 7% is owned by SNC Lavalin.

[@youbetcha6880]

The original plan for the York U subway extension was to have it go east on Steeles from York and loop up with the Yonge segment of Line 1, which effectively would have been a loop-shaped line. Instead, we got these two desolate stations. I think we can predict how desolate the Yonge extension stations in Richmond Hill will be.

[@ALuimes]

Are you kidding me? Have you ever been to Finch? Lots of those York Region riders on Yonge buses arriving there will be getting on further north instead.

[@DD-devl1]

Vaughn hey? Not sure how you could have made this more exciting? Your options were limited. 😊But love the video and commentary either way!

[@JohnnyStrides]

Thanks!

[@Mr123mc]

No TTC buses go to Hwy 407 station only pioneer village after that it’s YRT

[@pryf3644]

Good morning... Someboy.. My boy.. I love you.. I want to meet you.. Someday..

[@yeshuapleaseprotectthechil2150]

Sorry Johnny, I feel for you man, visiting that so called 'city'.

[@ALuimes]

Even most people who live don't think of it as a city. They think of half of it as the "Town of Woodbridge, Ontario".

[@Droxal]

It's sad that they force all condos and other developments in really unpleasant environments such as this. It's the super wide roads for cars, and a lack of community or commercial amenities that really make it feels desolate and unwalkable. Plus, all the cars and pollution. I feel that Mississauga downtown suffers the same issues. At least in the Vancouver area, the transit development feels slightly more livable (Metrotown, Richmond, Surrey, ect). Hopefully the GTA learns its lessons and builds better.

[@NanaDots]

Who does the spelling? Barrie was spelled Berry. Vaughn was spelled Von. Lololol. If it's a robot doing the auto spell, it needs a reboot kick. 😂

[@JimMork]

Found this very late, but the description intrigued me. And now I find that the narration shows me this is a pathetic example of humanity falling all over itself to solve "gridlock". Here context matters. We're going to the MOON. We dropped a probe on Saturn's biggest moon. Everywhere you look you got AI. But technology can't find answers to gridlock? Really? At first I was thinking a transit station that allows suburbanites to park FAR from downtown and get dropped walking distance from work or play. But now I see even that was futile. With hundreds of billions into gridlock solutions, and why does it not seem to matter? Why are there unnecessary long car trips? And are all those transport trucks there because Asian-made products have supplanted domestic products? Can't Canadian factories make things? I don't know. Humanity spinning in circles.

[@thefozzybear]

Typical North American Suburbia, just shopping malls, stroads, cars and parking lots. No character, no pedestrians.

[@ALuimes]

You're judging VMC by the whole city. It's the area around the station that counts for ridership in this case and there's no mall right near it.

[@taklungwong]

If you go to Guangzhou, or Suzhou, China, you won't believe Vaughan is exactly the same replica of China, down to the exact same design of the subway station.

[@XNick291X]

I guess Highway 407 profiting off of non Canadians is no worse than Bristol Airport in the UK being profited by the Ontario Teachers Pension Trust! 🤷‍♂

[@rickywinthrop]

Ahhh the Shitty above Toronto in all its "glory". What a farce.

[@ALuimes]

Most people prefer suburbia to downtown. Traditional street life is actually still a fairly niche lifestyle choice.

[@toddfuller3765]

Grim

[@acleverusername4866]

I honestly dont understand the appeal of living in a place like this. I guess you get a bigger house, but it cant be much of a life.

[@glen6945]

ace