Just to actually be on topic... seems like
plus que ca change, plus que ca reste la meme in London. Holder is in and the house has been cleaned somewhat, but I don't see any new or visionary policies being proposed. Just the same old kind of mediocrity. I used to get angry with this sort of thinking but I've just given up.
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Originally Posted by ssiguy
Yes KW and Hamilton built their inner-city expressways which is why you have, especially in KW, a bunch of disjointed neighbourhoods and lower per-capita transit ridership. Neither of those cities are even remotely as nice or livable as London. Hamilton still has it/s ugly Steeltown reputation and KW is seen as one big suburban office park and a bunch of malls connected by freeways.
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I know weed was legalized and all but you should slow down with the smoking, my friend!
Your characterization of Kitchener-Waterloo is, based off my observation, unfair and incorrect. The city has a very vibrant main commercial street and a number of others nodes that are supported both by locals and university students. Some neighbourhoods are cut off from the rest of the city by the expressway system, but this is really no different from London, where there are neighbourhoods that have been isolated by the river or the rail lines. I would actually say that it's much easier to get around the place. As for the lower transit ridership (I should point out the GRT is closing the gap with the LTC), this could be ascribed to a) the fact that Waterloo is a more prosperous and less economically fucked-up region, so more people have cars, and b) more of the Waterloo student population lives close to campus and makes use of commercial establishments that are also close to campus, reducing the necessity to use transit.
Hamilton has an ugly steel town reputation, but whenever I go there, I see a little mini Toronto with a really cool restaurant scene and a lot of other things to do. Hammerites take a lot of pride in their city and are generally more ambitious than Londoners. Because they actually recognize that they live in a city and not just a huge village. They care about the future of their city and they're willing to fight for it. As a result, Hamilton is an extremely desirable city; sure it was on the brink at one point but it's coming back fast. I would actually be more inclined to locate there in the future after years of unfairly characterizing it, like you just did.
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Originally Posted by ssiguy
London should have built a more suburban across-town freeway especially north/southbut thank God Londoners cared enough about their city to not allow hundreds of homes to be destroyed and communties ripped apart.
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A few years ago, I made a post detailing some of London's transportation master plans through the years (can't find it now but I assume it is still here somewhere). Initially they planned to sort of "Freeway the Thames", but that was quickly replaced by a proposal to build a highway around the city, on what was then open farmland north of Windermere Road. I assume hundreds of rabbit warrens would be destroyed
a la Watership Down, but as for human homes, not too sure that would be an accurate figure.
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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
Unless I missed something and LTC has > 90 million riders annually, this is definitely not true.
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Last I checked the LTC had about 22 million rides on an annual basis. Which is down about 2M from 2014. So yeah... no.
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Originally Posted by haljackey
I use an insurance app on my phone that gives me a hefty discount for good driving. If it detects that I'm going 10 km/h over the speed limit, I get a terrible score (even get dinged a bit with 5+ km/h but that's hard). Same goes for braking too hard, accelerating too quick, turning /cornering too harshly.
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As someone who drives like a Montrealer, this is my idea of a terrifying Orwellian future.
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