# A couple of Ontario Traffic Questions

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 14, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-ontario-traffic-questions/557165 "2010-10-14T19:28:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 25, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-ontario-traffic-questions/557165/41 "2010-10-25T15:08:06Z")

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> [@hogarth](#):
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> About GPSs – if you have one, turn off “Allow Toll Roads”. If I don’t, my GPS keeps trying to put me on the 407, which isn’t cheap..

The [407](http://www.407etr.com/) charges [over 18c/km](http://www.407etr.com/about/custserv_fees.asp). One Saturday-afternoon trip from the 427 to Ninth Line cost me $10.60 according to their onsite calculator. That includes a “video toll charge” of $3.60, because I’m an occasional user and don’t have a transponder, and a per-month charge of $2.50 which is charged once for each month I drive on it. I get a bill, sent to the registered address of ownership of my car’s plates. Which means that if you drive someone else’s car on the 407 without a transponder, _they_ get the bill.

On the other hand, I was doing just under 120 and I was the second-slowest vehicle on the road…

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