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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
I think the closest thing we have to them here would be the Lakeshore West line suburbs along Lake Ontario, from southern Mississauga through to Oakville and Burlington. But yes, they're certainly a more preferable style of suburban development to the banality of the Pickerings and Markhams of the world, even if a little less dense.
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Southern Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington have almost non-existent local bus service compared to central and northern Mississauga, Markham and Pickering. Southern Mississauga isn't a "little less dense" than the rest of Mississauga, it's A LOT less denser.
Mississauga-Lakeshore: 1,960.8 people/sqkm
vs.
Mississauga Centre: 5,410.1 people/sqkm
Mississauga East-Cooksville: 3,747.6 people/sqkm
Mississauga-Erin Mills: 3,631.0 people/sqkm
Mississauga-Streetsville: 2,547.8 people/sqkm
If the rest of Mississauga was built like the southern parts, then Mississauga would have only half the population. The urban footprint of the GTA would be twice as large, and transit would be a lot more inefficient (e.g. Westchester's Bee-Line Bus has half the ridership of MiWay despite serving a 30% larger population).
If lower density and the isolation that comes with it is more exciting for you, then go live on a farm. But if the urban footprint of the GTA was twice as large, there wouldn't be much farms left.