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Originally Posted by telyou
Why do suburbanites think their special and deserve such great mass transit?
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Well first of all, there's more of
us than there are of
you. Toronto's inner suburbs have a combined population of about 1.7 million people (includes York, Etobicoke, Scarborough and North York), which leaves about 800,000 people in the core (I consider East York part of the core. It was never a true suburb). So I would think that we deserve some suitable mass transit options as well, thank you very much.
Second of all, we have all been amalgamated into one giant, schizophrenic city with multiple needs and multiple personalities. So until we de-amalgamate and allow the municipalities to freely compete, we all have obligations to each other. Trust me, we're not extremely fond of paying to rebuild streetcar tracks or 120-year-old water pipes, but it can't be helped.
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Originally Posted by miketoronto
The norm in suburban Toronto however, is 4 lane arterial roads, with left turning lanes in sections.
So the idea that us suburbanites live on these huge wide wides, is actually not very true.
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Exactly. Anyone who generalizes Toronto's inner suburbs as a windswept land of 8-lane arterials with no sidewalks and no street frontage has obviously never spent much time there. Points of interest may be few and far between, but that's what bikes are for.
Now, places like Vaughan and Richmond Hill... that's a different story.