Pickering is the gateway between Scarborough’s discount corridor and the Durham market, and its prices reflect the tug-of-war. The Kingston Road spine — from Whites Road east through Liverpool to Brock Road — carries most of the town’s stations, and they price against both the Scarborough independents across the Rouge and the Ajax stations next door. The result is a market that usually sits within a cent of the best prices on either side.
For 401 commuters the choice is real: filling in Pickering versus pushing on to the Kennedy Road cluster in Scarborough or the Harwood strip in Ajax can swing a few cents either way on a given day. The list below ranks every Pickering station we track by current price, refreshed hourly, so the answer is a glance rather than a guess.