Ottawa – Toronto
Four and a half hours of Highway 401: the drive nobody wants to make alone.
This page covers both directions.
- Distance
- 450 km
- Typical drive
- 4 h 30
- Best-case and uncongested. Real journeys are longer.
Roughly four and a half hours along Highway 417 and the 401. Long enough that the cost of driving it alone is real (fuel, wear, and an afternoon), and long enough that a badly matched car is a genuinely bad afternoon.
This is the pairing where the case for matching is easiest to make. Four and a half hours is not a commute. It is a shared afternoon with three strangers, and whether that is good or unbearable is decided before anyone gets in the car.
Who you'd be travelling with
What you each want from the drive is compared before the trip is offered, so several hours in a car are agreed in advance rather than negotiated in the first ten minutes.
The other two routes
Be first on the corridor
I want a seat
Take a seat in a car already making the drive, next to someone you'd choose to sit beside.
Join as a riderI'm already driving
Post the empty seats on a trip you're already making, and set what they're worth.
Join as a driver