Artic is most likely talking about the deep suburbs of Toronto where people can and do commute 60 km each way in stop and go traffic. Places like Newmarket, Burlington, Oshawa or even further. At 10l/100 ( in that sort of traffic) that can be easily $70-80/week each car last week and more this week.
Why anyone would choose the lifestyle to sit in a car in traffic for a good chunk of their life is beyond me. Why?
Because Toronto is one of the not all that many places in Canada where the jobs are. A Job here defined as a skilled or professional job that is NOT working for any of the levels of Government.
Many people cannot afford to live in TO. Equally as many don't want to live in the city. Therefore they commute from dormitory suburbs, usually based around places that were probably pleasant small towns in the '60s and before. ( FWIW Guelph is just too far to commute to TO and this improves at as a place to live enormously)
TO is bounded by a lake so all the traffic ( road or rail) has to enter within a 270 degree arc. For all kinds of bad(=stupid) political reasons there are few roads and fewer commuter trains. So all those people living in the 'burbs have a ghastly commute. Some recent media article stated that TO 'burb dwellers have an average 88 minute commute and that was the worst in NA including LA.
KTM you don't tell us where "c" is but I presume it is some idyllic small town in Lotus Land.
Airb. It IS much, much better than it was in the '90s before they took the sulphur out of gas and diesel