[93117] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: passports for NANOG-39, Toronto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Oct 26 22:19:25 2006
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:17:35 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6EF0186E-40F1-4DB3-884F-BBBE8D1CCA68@ca.afilias.info>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:19:18 -0400, Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
wrote:
>
>
> On 26-Oct-2006, at 09:26, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
>
> > You could do the same fly-drive via Detroit but there is
> > a lot more driving.
>
> Indeed. Rough estimates, excluding time taken to cross the border and
> assuming good weather:
>
> BUF to Toronto: 2 hours
> DTW to Toronto: 5 hours
> CLE to Toronto: 6 hours
> LGA to Toronto: 9 hours
> BOS to Toronto: 9 hours
> ORD to Toronto: 10 hours
> IAD to Toronto: 10 hours
>
Don't neglect the border crossing delay. Driving home from Montreal after
the IETF, we had to wait close to two hours because of congestion at U.S.
Immigration. (Of course, that was the way home -- folks going into Canada
had virtually no wait, as best we could see...)
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
