Ambulances used to use The Bridal Path to get to Sunnybrook but speed bumps made that risky so it's five or ten minutes longer for a critical case.
These speed limit reductions are getting out of hand
- Thread starter Krazybones911
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Good justification for fancy suspension for ambulances. Heavy body and lots of suspension travel should be able to take speed bumps at the limit with minimal patient impact. They already spend a fortune on fitout, throwing some money at a baja/prerunner outfit seems like a worthy upgrade.
I was thinking about deliberately noisy suspensions and squeaky brakes. Lots of squeaks and a noisy vrooms at every bump. All night.
Isn't there someone useful near Ottawa? I'd rather drive north than west.
As for train, we've thought about it but damn, it takes so long. About 1:40-2:35 on the train from Barrie to union. Add driving to the barrie station and time from union to destination and it's much slower than driving. If I drove down to King West right now it is under 1:30 door to door. Tickets at $30/pp round trip and it's much more expensive than driving and parking if you have more than one person. Realistically, train is approximately double the time and money of driving. Ouch.
Shaman
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From Kingston, it takes about another hour each way than driving, but that depends on what time you try and drive downtown. As often as not I'm on par with time and a LOT happier when I get there than when I've spent an hour in door to door stopped traffic on the 401 and the Don Valley.
I've got to do this soon, the 911 needs maintenance and a new A/C condenser, it took a stone. Short of paying for a friend's fuel to pick me up at the dealership both times, this is the best solution for me. I used to go to Ottawa, but Mark Motors proved to me that they cannot handle my business. They failed to start work on my car at 8am when I arrived as per schedule three times and that's the charm... driving my car home without work completed twice and one of their Macans once for a few days because they ran out of time after squandering mine is no bueno. I forced them to take all my information out of their database as per the law, I was so ******.
