Originally Posted by rajman

Reading through the responses I am surprised by one thing: the lack of respondents saying that transit is the fastest. When I lived in suburban Toronto, the subway was always fastest between say 7 am and 9 pm, after that it was the car. Granted I was coming from a location close to the subway, and going to various downtown locations. However, my current residence in downtown Toronto, the subway beats car for any long trips, particularly at rush hour. I've taken transit to meetings/classes all over the city and it generally takes me about 50 min to take subway/bus/streetcar, regardless of destination.

Does no-one have a similar transit experience?

EDIT: This also counts for going to the airport - in fact I've made the airport by TTC in about 35 min relatively consistently and I can only match that in the middle of the night by car (maybe about 25 min by car from my location). I've even taken transit to the airport in Calgary - also relatively efficient from my location at about 50 min vs. 30 to 35 min by car (assuming no traffic).