Or how about some of the commuter railroad suburbs surrounding New York or Chicago?
Yes why do all those suburbs have worse local transit than Mississauga? Why does the Long Island bus system have only 1/3 the ridership per capita of Mississauga Transit, putting it on a similar level as Oakville Transit? Such a highly developed regional rail system such as in New York area should be a boon to local transit, but it isn't, it actually seems to be a detriment to local transit and therefore hinder smart growth.
Even looking at Mississauga, why does the most urban corridor in Mississauga, Lakeshore Road, have such poor ridership compared to other much less urban corridors? Because 23 Lakeshore connects to three full service GO stations.
Why is least busiest section of both the Hurontario and Dixie buses the sections south of the QEW? Because those sections are closest to the Lakeshore line.
GO uses Super-Sized trains, Super-Sized station platforms, Super-Sized buses, Super-Sized parking lots. Everything is bigger and takes up more space is the opposite of intensification. GO knows how to cater to the fat suburbanites and their fat kids and their SUV and reinforce their car-dependent lifestyle.
And that's why GO works. GO works because is not urban transit. GO is
suburban transit and that is why it is seeing increased cost recovery while the
urban transit systems (MT, TTC, YRT, Oakville Transit, etc.) are seeing declining cost recovery. GO is the future; the other systems will become just a footnote in hsitory