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401- The Busiest Highway in North America

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We have the busiest highway in North America (possibly on earth). Always found it fascinating and have spent a lot of time driving it or staring off of overpasses...so this week I brought a camera... Friend went a little bit crazy on the colour correct but its all for fun...

Couldnt find a 401 thread so i hope this video can spark some discussion/photos/videos of one of the worlds busiest freeways from you awesome forumers

[video=youtube;B9R5fKvMEDI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9R5fKvMEDI[/video]
 
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Great video MidTowner!

I actually just posted a bunch of pics of the 401, and other Toronto highways, a few days ago in this thread here:
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/17737-Streetscapes?p=636449#post636449

And I also posted this video a few months ago, somewhere else (can't remember where) featuring various bits of GTA infrastructure - though not of the same quality as your video!:
[video=youtube;e6MKxubpEZ0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6MKxubpEZ0[/video]
 
We even used to send postcards of it:

401Allen1970s.jpg
 
Whatever you might think about freeways, the 401 is an indisputable part of Toronto and what it means to be a Torontonian. The Yonge subway may carry more people, but I still have met GTA residents who have never taken the subway. I've never met anyone in the region who hasn't traveled on the 401 at least once in their life. We think that downtown is the ceremonial and symbolic heart of the region but if there's one thing that ties all Torontonians together it's this giant road. It travels through the geographic centre of our region and that's because the city built around it, not the other way around.
 
HipsterDuck thats exactly what i was trying to convey with my footage but ur words seem to paint the picture better than any video ever could. The 401 is an integral part of our city that is utilized by most but appreciated by few
 
Coruscanti Cognoscente said:
Wasn't that the day there was that big fire so they shut down the 401?

As for that one car on it, I don't know how it got there?
Click to expand...

The eastbound collectors were still open. I have shots of the same thing facing west from Don Mills Road. There was still a fair amount of traffic on the south side in the collectors even then.
 
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[video=youtube;argLwwxhIrw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=argLwwxhIrw[/video]

I could probably do much better with this now. The results you get in Premiere exporting to FLV are a lot better now than they were in 2007, and YouTube doesn't compress the sh!t out of videos in anything like they way they did back then.

I would also lock the white balance next time. :)
 
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[video=youtube;p5hUlacFHFc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5hUlacFHFc[/video]

Wish I knew how to embed these things. The magic just never works for me. :)

There's a time lapse shot of the 401 at about the 33s mark.

[edit] Sure, make a liar of me after a knock my brains out trying the embed codes. Sheeeeeeeesh. :)
 
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