Bringing the population to 1 million

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Is it really true that the growth of the region is being constrained by transportation projects on this list? I would agree that the region probably does need a couple new and substantial infrastructure developments since the transportation network mostly dates to about 1970. The 102/103 and Burnside Expressway improvements are new but they won't help with the core much. Maybe the Windsor Street Exchange work will make a big difference; I don't know the details. The rapid transit plan, if built on the timeframe suggested (8 years), will be a big deal and that could grow into something like LRT in the 2030's by establishing corridors.

The city is already growing pretty quickly. The current metro population is around 470,000 right now given the boundary adjustments that will happen for the 2021 census. The CMA grew by about 10,000 people from 2018 to 2019. This implies that the 5 or 10 year projects (5 years being lightspeed in the context of modern major infrastructure development in Canada) will need to be built to suit a city of over 500,000. And a lot of the old planning documents and population projections are too modest given current growth rates.