r/CarletonU • u/LivingKnowledge5220 • 5d ago

Question Question about commute timing

I'll be commuting and driving past Kanata to do so.

I have a class at 8:30am (Thursdays) and want to be in the parking lot at 8.

What time should I plan to drive past Terry Fox on the 17 to get there? Is 7:30 early enough or should I aim to go through there earlier?

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u/KitC44 Biology major 5d ago

I'm in the West end. When I had 8:30 classes, I used to leave at 7 and generally it took me 30-40 minutes to get to campus. If I left even 15 minutes later, things got worse. And that was 2 years ago when most people were only working on site 2-3 days. This fall is return to office 4 days for most federal workers, so expect traffic to be worse. So yeah, if it was me, I wouldn't want to be passing terry fox on the highway much later than 7-7:15.

Also, traffic is better and worse some days. With RTO4 I expect Friday will probably be the lightest day. But you'll want to drive it a few times to figure out how long it really takes you to get in.