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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
Part of the issue with this topic (comparing transit in Canada, the US and Europe) is in disentangling culture and competing modes (mostly cars) from the actual transit service.
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These days Canadian cities are so far behind on different types of transport investment anyway. The roads suck, the transit is inadequate. There's tons of latent demand for services that don't exist. There's tons of demand for any kind of housing. The limiting factors seem to relate to efficiency in infrastructure development and ability to plan and mobilize capital. Quebec City being a good example where the primary transit plan in the metro area kicks around for over a decade then balloons to an unrealistic budget and is killed off.
It does seem like the medium-sized cities are getting hit somewhat hard by this. The big cities can still manage some projects in this environment. The medium cities get pushed over the margin by the infrastructure development woes.