Yesterday I made the mistake of looking at my bill from the resident evil over at the offices of Highway 407ETR. Up until that point, I was actually in a pretty decent mood. I came to the realization that I am paying these greedy pricks almost $9.00 per day if I decide to use their precious road. I am now thinking twice, or dare I say, thrice about using the 407. It is true - the highway is very convenient - but... really? They are charging me an average of $.021 a kilometer and I travel 40km per day if I take it to and from work.
Here is a quick math breakdown of my 407 expenses:
40km X $0.21 = $8.40
Approximately 19 work days per month = $159.60
12 months per year = $1,915.20
What's that? There should be some kind of reward for traveling the highway this frequently? Well, here it is. I usually qualify for Tier 3 of their rewards program, which is the equivalent of a giant middle finger gouging out one of my eyes. I qualify for 55km of FREE highway use on Sundays as well as $0.03 per litre off on gasoline (up to 120 litres), but only if I want to use Petro Canada (which I don't). The other problem with this is I don't work on Sundays and I rarely have the occasion to "take advantage" of my FREE kilometers.
Now that I have actually broken this down monetarily, I see a lot of back roads and side streets in my future.
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