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Originally Posted by GreatTallNorth2
Let's hope the city invests heavily in transit instead of building multi-million dollar freeways that most people will never use.
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I hate to break this to you but most people in London don't use transit to begin with. We University students may use transit extensively (well I don't but plenty of others do), but the majority of working Londoners commute by car, either solo or in a carpool. These people often in areas that simply aren't practical to serve using transit. The industrial lands out by the airport are where most of the new employment is coming from, and in future it will likely be the 401/402 corridor. The density just isn't there; you can make residential developments as dense as you like, but modern industry prefers to be spread out because it makes operations cheaper, easier and more efficient. In addition to this, it likes to have access to speedy and predictable transport. Unless you can turn all the effective industrial workers into effective office workers within a short period of time, it will stay like this for the forseeable future.
If this place ever wants to see strong, consistent growth it will need both effective road and transit infrastructure. They are tooled to serve different purposes and writing any one of them off is a bad idea. Most European cities, which people here always seem to point to as examples of effective urban planning, combine roads and transit to create a seamless and effective system.