Places to grow still leave huge amounts of undeveloped land open for development. Halton, Peel, and Durham all have plans for huge suburban development projects. All these projects really need to be stopped.

It's not so much a problem with the suburbs as a problem with people in general. Everyone's too obsessed with having their own "perfect" self-contained lives, and so are unwilling to spend money on making the community better. Imagine if we all cut out half our payckecks to go towards public...

Certainly not. There are plenty of white Canadians that think the exact same thing. And anyways, that's seriously discriminating against certain groups simply based on the country they're from, as well as political discrimination. Indian and Arabian culture is just more conservative than...

Actually, Jews are a race. That being people that originally came from around the Arabian Peninsula to the Holy Land. But before the 1950's, Jews were one of the only Semetic peoples in Europe, and so anti-Jewish behaviour at that time was broadened to anti-semetism. It's not a completely...

Because obviously, having a large Muslim makeup means that Hanover will unofficially become part of the Middle East. Will they suddenly find large amounts of oil in surrounding fields as well? Do you not think that maybe, having a relatively large population of Muslims would just have little...

I'm saying long term. There are some low rise neighborhoods that could just be completely turned into a mid rise ones, while others would need to keep a basic suburban form but have, say, a mid rise main street or mid rise border along an arterial.

^^ It's a corridor. You're not going to have HSR going to a single "small town" but it'll stop in a "small town" along the way. There are towns along high density corridors in Japan with only 5000 people that get Echo service. And Japan's network is over twice as long as the Quebec-Windsor...

I doubt that canada would peak at 60 million, but even so, that's enough for Toronto to have 10 million. I don't think we should focus on preserving all neighborhoods. A couple communities that are extremely spread out and have little historical/architectural significance could be cleared for...

But how many people are we expecting the GTA to have? If we wanted to raze the suburbs and replace it with, say, 4 storey apartments with side street spacing, you'd need the population of the GTA to quadruple at least. Sure, the odd house, or even (hopefully) subdivision, may get torn down...

Who's definition of a good quality of life? Having a massive house with way too much stuff, garage for you 2 cars and a big front lawn? Yeah, that sounds great. I know so many "suburbanites" who really aren't sold on this whole "suburban living" thing and would gladly move into higher density...

With accelerated growth rates, assuming that the population of the country was simply converting over to Islam, it'd still take 50 years for Muslims to make up just half of the population. And that's not happening; pretty much all of the muslims coming into the country are immigrating, as are...

Sorry bud, but muslims make up a measly 2% of the country's population. Compare that to over 70% Christian, and 1% Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu and Sikh each. EDIT: And over 15% non-religious That's a really, really inflammatory comment right there.

It's funny, because previous just quick glance studies have said 100% yes, we should be building HSR. An in-depth study would be so overwhelming that it may actually get built! Passenger rail in Southern Ontario could go phenomenally well. We have more than enough density to support it...

How do we know they wouldn't be happy with a reasonable alternative? Give families a reasonably priced 3-bedroom apartment in a nice neighborhood, maybe close to transit and a local main street, and I feel like tonnes of people'll be going after a more high density lifestyle.

Ironic, because SUVs are actually considerably more dangerous than regular cars.

And I think it's been discussed more than enough the ways of lowering subway costs to a more reasonable number than $300 million/km.

To dictate growth, this is a very good plan. Having defined urban areas is something that needs to happen. But you still need to fix the suburban problem. That stops new suburbanization, but doesn't fix the suburbs we have now. Ontario could probably do a bit of both with the growth that...

Because from what I remember, amongst transit circles, Sheppard is a roaring success and extending it to STC was one of the main priorities for the TTC up until Transit City. I have a feeling that "below subway capacity" means that it won't be busy as the Young line, complete with a very...

Im probably delusional in my belief for the human race, but I think there's hope yet for suburbia. People are slowly becoming more in tune with what's good for themselves and the environment, and I think we'll see that, with the help of a very smart government, things could actually change...

Well, HSR could run multiple services. You could have one service that stops at all the current small cities/large towns, while another stops at Union, Oshawa, Belleville, Kingston, etc. and one just does Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal or Toronto-Montreal. The demand's more than there.