[lrt's friend]

Yes, more hollow actions. Sure, you can make a few adjustments around transit stations, but remember that the eastern route follows the Queensway and there are limits to what can be done around each station. Most growth will continue to be in the suburbs, and outside the Greenbelt, and this transit plan will not encourage significant changes in growth patterns. Growth areas will continue to revolve around roads and because of that, density cannot be increased a great deal. The old plan calling for transit to a growth area, allowed for increased density because the population was not going to be totally dependent on roads. We have now totally abandoned that approach and therefore smart growth, for the most part, is also going out the window.

As it stands, there is absolutely no incentive to increase density in the suburbs. We have been told that there is no hope of LRT for 25 years and more. If we tried to increase density especially around proposed transit routes, the roads will not be able to handle the increased traffic for the next 25+ years without enormous spending to increase road capacity. It is plain stupid to expect anything more than the status quo.