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When driving, city cycle refers to the recurrent nature of urban traffic patterns.
The best thing you might want to do is to take shortcuts, through public and avoid the busy freeways/highways especially in the morning.
It's about eight hours depending on traffic. Avoid Albany and Montreal at rush hour.
An hour with no traffic.
City driving tends to be stop and go, with many traffic lights, other vehicles and pedestrians. Driving on the highway is, usually, more straight forward, with less stops unless there is an accident, or a traffic jam.
The brake discs get hot with frequent braking during traffic.
In general, it is true that it is less dangerous to drive on rural roads than it is to drive in heavy traffic, simply because there is less danger of colliding with other vehicles. But if you drive badly enough, you can still collide with a tree, while driving on a rural road.