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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout
Yeah, that is great and necessary, but it's local transit, not rapid transit. What I mean is that the kind of towers Mississauga is building reflect its role in a much larger urban region of 8 million people, and yet even with the new LRT there will be no truly efficient way to get by transit from downtown Mississauga to downtown Toronto or Yonge-Eglinton or North York or any of the other regional centres. Imagine La Défense without any metro or RER stations. Or Tokyo with no way to get between Shinjuku and Ikebukuro by train.
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There is BRT service by GO Transit along grade-separated transitway for regional trips. Mississauga City Centre is not quite on the same level as Shinjuku or Ikebukuro so train might be too ambitious.
Too much demand for parking in MCC is holding back new office development and prevent it from becoming a true downtown. The current office towers are a sea of parking, even with underground garages. Building new office towers just not economical due to amount of parking spaces needed. Mississauga still needs to get more people to take the bus to those office buildings instead of driving. Maybe with all the new condos being built all around, more office workers will be walking and cycling and free up parking lots for redevelopment.
But it will be a long process. Mississauga's local transit ridership (50 riders per capita) still below average compared to even London or Winnipeg (60-70 riders per capita). And the density is still not that high compared to real downtowns. Population of MCC still only 25,000 (edit: or 30,000+?). Probably should be 50,000 or 60,000 or something. Still many, many more condo towers need to be built.