Should a city the size of Toronto have more, less, or about the same amount of rapid transit?
>>2076185Ontario is unusual in that it has been fully developed wall to wall suburbs for more than a generation. The American north shore is all farmland except for maybe 10 counties, on the greatest corridor in world history.Imagine if Cleveland or Buffalo were surrounded by rings of mid century suburbs for over a hundred miles, because anything south of Columbus is hard living wilderness.
>>2076187About half of Southern Ontario is farmland including a big chunk of Canadian Shield land near the Kawarthas up to Algonquin Park.Not sure what you meant by this post. I think the majority of all of the highest grade farmland is also in Ontario.
>>2076190Why are you talking about anything north of toronto? Everything south of Toronto's latitude is 100% developed. Breezwood all the way from the Detroit/Naigara borders to Toronto. The southern glacial scar parallel to algonquin is allegheny state park, and there ain't nothing close to there.
>>2076205>Everything south of Toronto's latitude is 100% developed.That's only really true between Hamilton and Oshawa. Beyond either of those, you're into mainly farmland.
having a U shaped subway in the most dense part of the urban core seems so inefficient
>>2076271Why?
buses would be better in every possible way, and its cheaper to pave a lane of highway than do rail anyways, and more flexibleUrbanites are obsessed with retarded mass transit concepts because they think its supposed to be a free government service...
>>2076275I fixed it. It's a little crude, but illustrates my point quite effectively.
Guess it depends on what you considered "developed". My grandparents' farm near Pain Court is pretty much the same as it was fifty years ago when my dad was a teen. Even Pain Court itself is still just a couple dozen buildings.
>>2076359>Pain Courtthis is where the Marquis de Sade relocated to?
>>2076358This puts more traffic into fewer change stations
>>2076185It's never gonna be enough. The financial and political elite wants the population to reach five trillion so we all lose whether we're crammed in underfunded transit or in some cager hellscape
>>2076205I rode a bus from Buffalo to Toronto recently and a huge amount of southern Ontario is rolling farms, much like the area between Buffalo and Rochester. I wish this were true, but there's nowhere to go in southern Ontario immediately across the border. Fort Erie is right across the river from Buffalo but barely has any buildings above two stories
>>2077038The area you are describing is smaller than any WNY county.
>>2076185Toronto should have better high speed links to metro Detroit, so they can culturally enrich themselves faster.
>>2076205Southwestern Ontario isn't just the GTA. Any further southwest, you'll run into horse buggies and lawn jockeys. It's basically North Georgia when you aren't in the cities.
>Finch subway line going up to Richmond Hill StationWhat fantasy is this?
>>2077589https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-and-programs/yonge-north-subway-extension
