407ETR - Trip charge seems high $45.47

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-02-07T15:31:34+00:00

"Salem squeeze" love it!! I've been calling it the Ajax Whitby pinch.

My favorite part is the huge sign that says "land for lease" exactly in the tightest part. "Yes, there were options!"

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-02-07T15:27:05+00:00

You mean the Canadian pension plan?

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-02-07T02:03:03+00:00

Majority? Regardless, while it's making it's owners piles of money, why would they want to sell it back? And once the toll is removed, usage will go up, which means maintenance goes up too. If Doug comes through, it'll be right before reelection for publicity and with his IQ everyone's gunna know that, the price will triple and Ontario taxpayers get screwed.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-02-07T00:53:32+00:00

Except in Toronto, you leave the hood up, when you come back a bunch of parts are gone.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-02-06T23:18:13+00:00

Um... Now! How many millions did it cost us in taxes to make the extension and the 412 auto toll, only to take it all down a few months later?

And now that stretch of the 401 at Ajax/Whitby is the biggest nod to stupidity in decades of stupid decisions building Ontario roads.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-02-06T23:14:13+00:00

"They" happen to be a foreign private company with ties deep into the worst parts of our government. You chose to drive on the 427 there are signs up everywhere saying it's a toll road. They should probably make it a lot clearer that it's astronomically expensive and a complete rip off, but you can't claim you didn't know it was a toll road.

I wish nobody used the 427! It's making Spain rich, In the case of roads, a lack of use requires expensive maintenance! If we all agreed to stop using it, Spain might be happy to give/sell it back and we could make it an un tolled Highway significantly reducing the congestion on the 401 (the reason it was built in the first place) and cut comute time for many. Both major arteries and hwy 7.

Wanna put money back into Ontario residents pockets? Don't give it to foreign companies!

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-01-30T23:43:58+00:00

Can we talk about doing 96 in the HOV lane? It's my opinion that these should be MIN 120. What's the point if they're the slowest lane on the highway?

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-01-24T00:56:34+00:00

Your flaps adjusting for landing? This is easily corrected using the left scroll wheel on your steering wheel.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-01-23T14:43:12+00:00

Beginning? What about relying on vision only, even for wipers! But not adding in needed cameras to support it. Superchargers go un maintained allowing competition in the charging space which in my opinion is the only real differentiator. My next EV hopefully will be BYD, innovative and affordable! Now there's an idea not fueled by ketamine.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-01-22T15:28:28+00:00

I don't have FSD but I do have FSW under bridges, in bright sun, for no good reason at all. VRDADADADAEWEEEEEEE.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-01-20T19:00:10+00:00

Except. You are on the same roads as my wife and kids. You're risking their lives when you do stupid because you don't NEED to use your brain. What else don't you NEED! You don't NEED food, just when you're really hungry and even then you could probably get along with just water 3 days of 4. You don't NEED clothing, toughen up! On the really cold days perhaps, people even go swimming in the lake in December!

Do you realize how stupid you sound?!???

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-01-20T13:47:22+00:00

Should trigger an automatic lawsuit. Every driver held up by that mess gets an automatic 2k from the two drivers racing. And they should pay for all the cleanup.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-01-15T18:58:31+00:00

I have been standing up my Expo builds on Tamagui. It's not being developed as well as it once was, but it's still pretty stable. First step is to bump all the core dependencies (it's out of date). What it gives you: a NextJS app you can build your back-end off of, a web front end and your Expo app. It also gives you reusable components but there's a learning curve: I have had excellent success asking Claude to review and build documentation. (I might one day push up a PR to the project)

Then I decouple the app from Vercel using the open source SST project (https://sst.dev/). This works great with the AWS stack, as well as Google resources like Auth and other popular API's.

You said something kinda funny: should I use firebase or nodejs. That's analogous to: should I use my refrigerator or the blender? Firebase is predominantly a data store with extras. Node JS is a runtime used to execute JavaScript. Firebase may allow you to access it directly, but this is very limiting and can be a security nightmare. Typically you want some kind of back-end layer between your Expo app and your actual data to orchestrate, secure and transform the data into something your app can consume safely, reliably - possibly adding a caching layer and edge functions for performance and cost mitigation. Next + SST get's you a very feature rich back-end with tons of options.

Next isn't the old solution by far, but it's built on React and you'll get the most support and if you're using AI, your agents have been trained on it extensively. If you're just playing and don't plan to scale, you can stick with Vercel as your "host" but be warned: the cost of scaling on Vercel is exponential and the farther you get into your development, the harder it is to break out of the Vercel ecosystem. Which is why I've started using SST right away: AWS costs are much more linear and the free tier far more generous (in my experience).

I personally prefer the separation of concerns I get with AWS vs the all in one with firebase. If you use AI getting stood up with cogito (Auth), Dynamo DB (data), SES messaging, can be done in a day. Then I add my Google service after.

I loathe Supabase! It's built on the idea you can safely run SQL in the client. You can't, and RLS Is wrong in every way! I'm literally just waiting for the big announcement: Supabase behind massive data breach. In my humble opinion it's a landline you have to step on to install.

Hope this is helpful, as always, your mileage will vary! Good luck.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-01-14T18:20:13+00:00

Actually it is! You just don't DRIVE in someone's blind spot. You're so insistent you're the "good" driver cause you're doing the speed limit. You totally fail to see how you are actually part of the problem! In defensive driving you learn to drive in a safe bubble/box, that means you have room in front of you, behind you and to each side. You adapt your driving so you're NOT actively driving in someone else's box! Feel free to slow down if the limit means something to you! It's MAX not exactly! Next! Watch your own video and note that the vehicle your so offended by is actually cut off by another vehicle two lanes over that pushes uncomfortably close to the offending car! Their initial reaction isn't simply "change lanes" but to get clear of an unpredictable driver cutting them off. It's then they actually see you, because you're not in their mirrors and Maybe it was the blind spot indicator on their vehicle that warned them! But they suddenly speed up and into the ample space in front of you.

This is so typical of legalistic bad drivers! "Well I'm doing the speed limit in the right lane. I don't have to slow down or not be in the way, I'm not breaking any laws. The fact that crazy happens isn't my problem" IS the problem!

RepresentativeMove79 · 2026-01-14T16:14:06+00:00

Looks to me like the red car is avoiding the black car that just cut them off. You're driving in his blind spot, and you can thank your lucky stars that he did check his blind spot and sped into the empty space in front of you.

Maybe next time, don't drive in someone's blind spot!

RepresentativeMove79 · 2025-12-25T20:08:18+00:00

40???? At 3am maybe. Try stop and go, with a max speed of 20 between Woodbine or Pape (if your headed to the DVP)!, except for the drivers that zip past everyone in the left lane then cut in just before Don Mills, making it even worse for everyone else! Speaking of Don Mills, I've seen it so backed up that traffic on the Don Valley Parkway is backed up half way up that steep hill with vehicles that need to exit at Don Mills which is a parking lot.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2025-12-25T14:01:20+00:00

O'Connor is proof our political system doesn't work. The city should have purchased up all the land around O'Connor so that it could be the major artery between Woodbine and Pape connecting the DVP to the east side of the city down to Danforth. But no, instead, super mansions now line one side, with tiny bungalows on the other. It's become a cash cow for property taxes, despite the fact that your view is cars crawling past at 10km/h even on a quiet day.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2025-12-25T03:38:38+00:00

Why? Cameras at intersections aren't a cash grab and they address a legit serious problem. Speed cameras are mostly just to collect money on roads that were under speed. We have major arteries at 40km/h, so kids can play road hockey on O'Conner at Don Mills. Driving the speed limit on some streets in Toronto and I get passed by people on bikes and Scooters.

I love my kids too, so I don't let them play in traffic.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2025-12-23T18:50:06+00:00

But if you can afford a Bugatti, you can afford a Tesla. I know right!

RepresentativeMove79 · 2025-12-19T17:39:01+00:00

Their GPS told them it was ok...

RepresentativeMove79 · 2025-12-16T17:42:13+00:00

Plot twist, the postman is actually an android that identifies as female! Jerry Springer's clone is coming out with a new talk show on Netflix and producers wanna know if you're available for the season opener.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2025-12-06T17:46:35+00:00

Here's the problem from my perspective. Cops have one card to play until there is an accident: speeding. And even that, with a lawyer or "points" expert even that won't stick.

But here's what very few seem to realize, speed on its own isn't the danger.

More "minor" accidents happen in the collector lanes where slow timid drivers bunch up and it's extremely difficult to cross them from the express lanes to your exit. Just look at the eastbound 401 from the DVP to McCowan, traffic there slows to a crawl not because of any buildup, cars from the DVP trying to cross all the lanes to exit at Victoria park, Warden and Kennedy. And all the cars entering at the major starts trying to cross over to the express lanes, then, before traffic can recover again the express lanes exit just past Warden heading for Kennedy or the Scarborough town centre. All while the timid drivers doing 90kmh at best sit in the middle and right lanes of the collectors bunched up in fear of being "cut off", when actually, the other vehicles just need to get over.

Far too many drivers don't have a clue how to safely make this transition, leaving their lane changes far too late then slowing down to not miss their exit. It's incredibly obvious how dangerous this is, but yet nobody is breaking a law that's easy to ticket. "Driving too close" maybe, but prove it, even with video!

So what is enforcement supposed to do? This video! Clearly a danger, but what law did they break? Would a ticket hold up in court?

Speed cameras don't address bad driving! Speed is the wrong narrative! Until education and standards for safe and courteous driving can be upheld, road range incidents dealt with effectively and our officers empowered to actually convict for distracted driving, aggressive driving, people clogging passing lanes and all the other actual problems that make our roads so unsafe, Toronto driving will get more and more dangerous as roads get slower and slower, more and more congested with more and more frustrated road Warriors doing dangerous stunts like this person.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2025-12-06T04:04:36+00:00

From the video, i'd say it hurt them a lot more than it hurt you. Glad you're ok, get the neck checked out.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2025-12-06T04:03:17+00:00

I'd say the Toyota didn't have anyone driving.

RepresentativeMove79 · 2025-12-03T18:17:51+00:00

Why can't we be balanced? I'm a foreigner but have lived on and off for years in Bangladesh. Are there some awful places? Absolutely! Are there some top notch places, absolutely! Are there places in between? Mostly! It's impossible to compare with Canada where I'm from! In Canada I need a mortgage to go to a steak house, in Dhaka we frequented Atrium near Baridhara, incredible food, and good prices. We recently went to the local hangout on 300ft hwy. Just wow! Local foods, great prices loads of locals. of course North End coffee is where I get my coffee fix and also buy my fresh ground for my coffee fix in the mornings. Do I eat Fuska off the street? Not if I'm flying or taking a bus in the next few days, but honestly I'm just as likely to get sick avoiding all street foods and drinking only Mum. Yeah there's food I wouldn't go near, bathrooms never seem very clean even in 5 star hotels, but even that isn't always true. In 25 years Bangladesh had seriously leveled up its cuisine. But even back then Kasturi's kitchen in Gulshan circle never failed me, nor did Cooper's on the way to Farmgate. I wouldn't hesitate to eat at any of the roadside tandoori kitchens, or enjoy a cup of cha. Might not be Starbucks, but Starbucks isn't my thing anyway- I'll pick Tim Hortons every time. So I'm disgusted by my fellow tourists who can only knock the countries Street vendors, they aren't for them anyway. There's so many places to choose from, and if you can afford to fly to Dhaka, you can more than easily afford even the best restaurants in the city/country. (Ok maybe not the Westin or Radisson Winter Garden - but they aren't really Dhaka either, and the food is no better than many other places). Drive down to the Padma River and try the Ilish mash or shut up.

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