Have you ever tried to get from Weston Rd. and Eglinton Ave. to Weston Rd. and St. Clair Ave.?

The trip might not be glamorous — a 10-minute bus ride on the 89 Weston bus.

But a new interactive tool launched by John Tory’s campaign says it can get you there a whole hour faster.

That’s because it says the regular route isn’t a 10-minute bus ride, but a more than one-hour route with three transfers — one of several confusing roundabout routes suggested by the site that no Toronto resident would ever take.

The new SmartTracker.ca site lets riders check out what their commutes would be like if Tory’s 22-stop above-ground rail line was built.

It’s an easy way to see the difference using the GO train routes to get across the city might make for weary commuters.

But on Tuesday, those testing the tracker pointed out a few wacky kinks that skew the actual time saved by taking SmartTrack.

SmartTracker says it would take only two minutes to hop from a new Mt. Dennis station on Eglinton Ave. to St. Clair West. It says the traditional route is 3,150 per cent longer.

That’s because SmartTracker suggests the traditional route would be to take the yet-to-be-built Eglinton Crosstown to Eglinton West station. From there it suggests the average rider would logically take the Yonge-University subway to Spadina station, transfering there to the Bloor-Danforth subway line and getting off at High Park station. From there you still have to catch a bus — presumably the 41 Keele — to St. Clair Ave. and Weston Rd., SmartTracker says.

Strangely, when you try to use SmartTracker to go in the opposite direction, it just tells you to take the bus, which it says would take 22 minutes.

There are a few other examples. So let’s say you want to get from Dundas West station to Liberty Village for a quick bite to eat.

SmartTracker says Tory’s new line can get you there in three minutes, saving you 43 minutes of commuting.

But SmartTracker suggests you would have to take the Bloor-Danforth subway to St. George station and ride the Yonge-University line all the way to Union. From there it’s just a 25-minute bus ride back west to Liberty Village. All in all, SmartTracker says it would normally take you 46 minutes.

But the 504 King streetcar will take you from point A to point B in less than half the time, at just over 20 minutes. So unless you are craving Cinnabon first, there is no need to go through Union.

The SmartTracker tool does present some interesting “what if” scenarios — like those who might need to get all the way from Etobicoke to Markham in one shot. Tory’s campaign says it will only take 78 minutes to get from end to end on SmartTrack.

Tory spokesperson Amanda Galbraith said their team will be making a few corrections based on “minor glitches” as they receive feedback about the SmartTracker.

The tool, Galbraith said, analyzes 91 stops that link to 8,190 possible subway route combinations and 68 bus routes.

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“It would be impossible to communicate this information in a list, let alone include all possible trips in between these locations. This is why we created the SmartTracker,” Galbraith said in an email. “It evaluates all possible trips between two stations to find the shortest route with the SmartTrack in place. It then evaluates the shortest route without the SmartTrack. The difference between the two is the time saved.”

She said ultimately their goal was to show SmartTrack would reduce commute times for many Toronto residents.

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