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Downtown Mississauga is evolving and will be better in the coming years, especially now that Oxford is developing the mall parking lots. Right now though, it's extremely disconnected and isn't really anything approaching a true urban experience.

Give it another decade and it will be starting to be in better shape.

The problem with all these "instant" downtowns is that they take time to mature - CityPlace faced initial criticism as well when it was first starting, and nobody complains anymore now that it's almost done as all the infrastructure and population is actually there. It's the same thing for Mississauga, Vaughan, Markham, etc., which as they mature and fill out the complaints will drop and the urban feeling will increase.

Mississauga's obsession with mega-roads is a real issue though, that has yet to really be corrected in a major way. Confederation Parkway is insanely wide for what it is, and could probably be 50% narrower and provide literally exactly the same capacity. Each lane is like 4m wide, the parking spaces are too wide, there is that massive median, etc.

It's just made worse that Confederation Parkway is the one half-way urban street in MCC right now.\

It's not like Hamilton has an exactly stellar public realm either.. it's roads are falling apart to an almost comical level, Main Street is a massive highway right through the core, and the downtown is full of parking lots.