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Originally Posted by someone123
One of the implications of this is that there's a big disconnect between how ambitious the transportation infrastructure projects are in the city and how fast it's growing.
The current answer seems to be that it's enough to tweak the bus network and build new roads in greenfield suburban areas. That's about it. There's the Windsor Street Exchange project which is badly needed but the city will add 50,000 people before that's built.
The municipality and province should be planning now for a transportation network to serve 600,000 people, and then actually implementing those plans over a 5-15 year timeframe.
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That's a concern that I have as well. IMHO the biggest part of that problem is that if we wait until our transit system is over capacity, it will be too late. We'll be struggling to play catch-up, plus it will only be more difficult and expensive to create ROWs for rail if that's the way we are going. There should be a plan in place right now that allows for even greater populations of the future.