salsa
Senior Member
If it's true that change can't really be affected, then there's equal reason to distrust projections about development due to LRTs. Just saying.
Nowadays city planning priorities have shifted more toward avenue development rather than growth centres, which LRT is ideally suited for. It doesn't mean that the growth will actually happen, but for the most part the proposed light rail lines are replacing some of the busiest bus routes and thus have the ridership to justify it. Whereas subway advocates rely entirely on "built it and they will come" for their subway to succeed.
Going forward from now, it's not just the City. The province is backing on its Urban Growth Centre's absorbing a lot of population and job growth.
Toronto has grown a lot, just like the province wanted. But there is no planning policy that can change that fact that people want to live where they want to live. As you know, it's the downtown area that has been booming, so has old Toronto, Midtown and North York. The suburbs, not so much.
Despite the wishes of politicians and city planners, designating Scarborough Centre as an urban growth area is not gonna do much if people don't want to live there. There's been a few development proposals over the years but they didn't sell too well, which is not surprising because lets be honest here, Scarborough Centre is not a beautiful place to live. Even if I had to live in Scarborough for whatever reason (e.g to be closer to my job), I would rather pick some apartment on Finch Ave instead.
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