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Originally Posted by someone123
I think part of the problem is that these are fake hubs created by arbitrary suburban municipalities. At the same time, this level of development is banned in a lot of the more central accessible parts of Toronto.
It is good that Vaughan has a subway stop but it's still 40+ mins from Union Station and over 20 stops away. That trip is not so convenient and maybe better served by long-distance services with fewer stops. Meanwhile St. Clair W, as an example of a station much closer in along that line, is still partly a detached housing area.
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It's hardly arbitrary. The powerful Cortelucci Family owns a lot of land in Vaughan City Centre.
I think you're probably mistaken that Vaughan Metropolitan Centre demographics are heading downtown for work. As I have said a few times on the forum, Vaughan's greatest advantage over MCC is the subway to York University much like York students previously built up Yonge and Finch and UofT students built up Bay Street. It's just the current state of VMC is well behind the state of Mississauga City Centre and the timeline is blowing up as the market tanks.
We obsessed over low densities around subways stations. Capital transit investment hinging on capacities means transit will always suck. Likewise, 30 to 70 storey apartment clusters with some retail for mixed use status is a sucky living environment regardless in Concord or Oakwood Village
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