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The overwhelming majority of the population lives in a narrow ~100km band over the southern border. How do you not have a decent transit system when its so concentrated?
Do people have to drive all the way across the country every single day? The size of the country does not dictate its dependency on the automobile. North American cities were walkable before the car and they can be walkable again. Car dependency is a result of policy not the size of the country.
The issue isn’t that living in Edwin or Newton in Manitoba is based around driving a car, it’s that life in Winnipeg, Manitoba is still based around driving a car. The problem is that car culture is still what cities are built around.
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We’re the second largest nation in the world by landmass, but with a population that’s only the size of California.
How do you not have a “car culture” in a nation like that? People need to get around, and transit can really only accommodate those in cities
Cities need to be much more transit/pedestrian oriented because they do not cover much area.
Cars should be used for servicing the country and for visiting towns.
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The overwhelming majority of the population lives in a narrow ~100km band over the southern border. How do you not have a decent transit system when its so concentrated?
About half the country lives in the Windsor to Quebec city corridor, a region with population density of Spain.
Most of the northern wilderness is unoccupied. It makes no sense to say we can’t have good passenger rail just because Victoria Island exists.
Yeah nobody is saying that the Yupik villages need subways, but Toronto should probably have a good light rail.
Do people have to drive all the way across the country every single day? The size of the country does not dictate its dependency on the automobile. North American cities were walkable before the car and they can be walkable again. Car dependency is a result of policy not the size of the country.
On average, how many times a year do you go from Thunder Bay to Whitehorse versus how many times a year do you get groceries around the block?
The issue isn’t that living in Edwin or Newton in Manitoba is based around driving a car, it’s that life in Winnipeg, Manitoba is still based around driving a car. The problem is that car culture is still what cities are built around.