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Hi all, any one on here commute from Milton to Waterloo? if so, I would be interested to know what the traffic is like. I am considering a job out that way but the commute is a major factor. Currently I work in Mississauga and take about 45 mins to an hour each way...

I commute to Waterloo. I've been doing it from Mississauga for ~6 years, and for about the last 9 months since I moved to Milton, I've been doing it from here. No traffic to worry about really, but sometimes you hit a slow down on Hwy 8 North. On really bad days, there's about a 10 minutes delay there around 9am, but mostly it's fine. Coming back, Hwy 8 is as bad around 5:30pm.

When the season changes (winter -> spring, fall -> winter), there are accidents, which are usually pretty bad. And of course, there are winter storms to think about as well, dealing with trucks. It takes some getting used to, and don't do it without winter tires.

Takes on average about 45-50 minutes from home (Thompson/Yates) to RIM (centre of Waterloo).

I used to commute from Milton to UW, and it would take around 50 minutes on an average day, including finding parking. I agree that the bottleneck is 8 north; some days it would be perfectly fine, other days it would be backed up all the way to the 401. And you have to pay attention to 570 news to find out if there are any accidents, because accidents screw the whole commute. There's various side routes and stuff you can take when there's a traffic issue; personally, I always liked to try and leave super early in the morning so I could leave early in the afternoon and miss the traffic altogether (so I'd leave at 6:30 am or so, and take off from Waterloo around 3 or 3:30).

Depending on where you'd be working, you might be able to carpool - for a while I was driving with some UW students who I met at 6 south. Saved a lot of wear and tear on my car that way.