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MDC - Crossing a street

So a little later, but as promised here is the view of the underpass. This is westbound Lakeshore Boulevard underneath the Gardiner Expressway. As I mentioned it's neither impressive nor pretty. Fortunately, this is only a short part of my commute. I didn't notice it at the time, but I caught one of those big SUV that are so popular in North America on this shot as well. They are actually fun to drive; not for racing obviously, but similar to driving a truck. However, if you get stuck behind them on the road you can see pretty much nothing of what's lies in front of it. Again just like a truck ;)

Anyway, once this traffic light lies behind me I have the view of my second picture.  On the let you can see the Air Canada Center or ACC that hosts ice hockey, basketball and other events. There is actually a fun little video on YouTube about the conversion between an ice hockey and a basketball field (click here to check it out).  This building actually used to be the Canada Post's Toronto Delivery Building and at some stage was even used by the Department of National Security.
The golden building in the middle is a bank (RBC), who actually laced their window and outfacing structure with a thin gold layer. On the left another of the big 5 banks (TD in this case). If you look at what's going on on the street you will see a bus. This bus is part of the downtown public transport (TTC). Compared to pretty much any place I've been to (maybe except Ireland) North America has the worst public transport. Some cities are obviously better than others (NYC and San Francisco probably rank higher, Toronto however is pretty bad). So it's not surprising that many commuters opt for the very congested highways. Since a commute by train or subway might take just as long... however, take this with a grain of salt. A friend and colleague of mine used to commute by car for over 6 years and just recently discovered that a train is the better solution for himself.
Anyway, I'll be back to continue my commute on the other side of the ACC.


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