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Aug 23, 2009 1:45 AM |
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Originally Posted by koops65
(Post 4419676)
Waterloo Region is close to 500 000, but just Kitchener and Waterloo is about 333 000. You need to add Cambridge to get up to that half a million, and none of the pics shown in the recent posts had Cambridge in them, except possibly off in the far distance as just a blur. Thats why I said KW is 1/3 of a million.
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In some approaches into the region, such as coming into Cambridge from Guelph on hwy 24, the sign says 522,000 for the Region of Waterloo. It is probably about a year old at the most. I would say 525-530k is a good estimate for now. The CMA measurement is a fair bit less though (~470-480k).
I tend to count Cambridge in as part of the 'tri-cities'. There isn't much of any development gap between downtown Kitchener and downtown Preston (nearest downtown in Cambridge). It's a lot more distant and more sparse an area in between (~15km), but it's still pretty solid development all the way through.
That said, that just gives an idea of the scale I was talking about. Having highrises throughout the whole urban area gives it a feeling of vastness you don't get in cities where all the tall buildings are in one little part of downtown (i.e. Saint John or St. John's). The pictures WaterlooInvestor showed don't even include the cluster around Fairview Mall and mostly just showed the pre-WW2 parts of the two cities.
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Originally Posted by vid
(Post 4419752)
It's like two cities beside each other. KW being one, Cambridge (itself three cities in close proximity to each other) the second. You could probably throw in Guelph, too, it's not too far away and there is a fair bit of traffic between the two.
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If we're only talking about the urban area, Guelph is definitely very separate, and you can't see it at any point in the tri-cities (you can see Cambridge). Not an overly long commute though. It's considered to basically be pretty local by a lot of people. No transit between the 2 regions though, unfortunately. |
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