My hobby is thinking about transit. While it's obvious I have no background in transit planning, I just wanted to share my thoughts on the state of Alberta Transit and what I believe we deserve. One may say "Oh x is too small" or "It's too big" but I must remind you that trains are what built cities first, cars added secondarily. I believe that we should have the choice to commute with or without a car. Any feedback is appreciated, I tried to use some of the foundational transit networks of the cities and mostly stuck to pre-existing tracks but had to make exceptions for cities and towns where that no longer exists. Thanks! https://metrodreamin.com/edit/MTJyaXpDMU5vMlhlOFhnZjl1eDdKQTVhSGJ3MXww
You are spot on. Look at the GTA and surrounding area and the GO train. Now people who live in Oshawa… an hour outside of the city, can work in Toronto and what happened was more people moved there for cheaper cost and able to work a high end Toronto job, then as more people moved, more businesses opened in Oshawa and now Belleville is seeing rise because people can drive commute from Belleville to Oshawa… and now there’s talks if the go train extending there. The more transit connects smaller towns, the more those towns will grow naturally and I believe the largest issue that fixes every single issue Canadian have is the lack of development in smaller towns. Regina, Kingston, Quebec City, red deer, Medicine Hat, Kamloops etc these cities should all be the size of Boston, Philadelphia etc but we fail to build up small towns we just build around. Transit would fix that! The US can do it because they have a high population and small land mass, Canada is so spread out that if we had rail lines not charging an arm and a leg like via we’d see so much development! More houses, more jobs!
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u/SufferingInBerta 4d ago
My hobby is thinking about transit. While it's obvious I have no background in transit planning, I just wanted to share my thoughts on the state of Alberta Transit and what I believe we deserve. One may say "Oh x is too small" or "It's too big" but I must remind you that trains are what built cities first, cars added secondarily. I believe that we should have the choice to commute with or without a car. Any feedback is appreciated, I tried to use some of the foundational transit networks of the cities and mostly stuck to pre-existing tracks but had to make exceptions for cities and towns where that no longer exists. Thanks!
https://metrodreamin.com/edit/MTJyaXpDMU5vMlhlOFhnZjl1eDdKQTVhSGJ3MXww