CHAMBLY: 80 MINUTES

June Thompson, Newsroom Administrator Distance: 30 km Driving route: Highway 10, Champlain Bridge, Bonaventure Expressway. With no traffic, the drive would take about 30 minutes. How long is your usual morning commute?: An hour and 15 or 20 minutes

How about a year ago?: 45 minutes Biggest trouble spots?: The 10 is very slow. There’s so much traffic going to and from St-Jean, St-Julie and Chambly, so I sit on the 10 and then when I finally cross the bridge, I’m sitting on the Bonaventure. Once I hit the Five Roses building, it’s often bumper to bumper all the way to downtown. One day, I hit my brakes just under the Victoria Bridge — it was backed up that far. I’ve been doing this commute for 38 years and there used to be nobody on the 10. Now it’s ridiculous. It’s getting worse and worse every year. September is always the worst. Usually things calm down a bit in November. How was your last driving commute?: Not pleasant. I left home at 8:23 a.m. It was slow on the 10 and then I got stuck on Peel St. They used to have police at several corners of Peel, but they’re all gone now. I got to work at 9:40 a.m. Total time: 77 minutes

Have you changed your commute?: Sometimes I try to save time by exiting Highway 10 at Chevrier Blvd., then driving through Brossard and jumping on the Champlain. But many

people are doing this now. Why not take public transit?:

Once they finish the reserved lane on the 10 ( between Highways 30 and 35), I’ll consider it. But right now, buses sit in traffic on the 10, too. If I’m going to be stuck anyway, I’d rather be in my car. I’m zen, I can listen to my own music. (Google Maps suggests transit during morning rush hour would take somewhere between 35 minutes and one hour and 20 minutes. The AMT trip planner says I’d have to leave my house at 8:11 a.m. to get in for 9:30 a.m. with a travel time of one hour 18 minutes.).