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Canada has become a car culture nation, I'm living abroad right now so that I can be a pedestrian without fearing for my life.
The state of public transport in Montreal makes me so angry. This city used to be an examplar of public transit.
And I'm over here in Ottawa looking at you guys as the gold standard.
Same here. Everytime I go to MontrΓ©al, I'm amazed by their transit.
Lived in Montreal for 9 years and now live in Calgary. I weep when I think of Montreal's transit vs. Calgary's transit.
I haven't tried enough of the transit outside of Metro Van
How would Montreal compare to transit here (for those that tried both)
We're the second largest nation in the world by landmass, but with a population that's only the size of California.
How do you not have a "car culture" in a nation like that? People need to get around, and transit can really only accommodate those in cities
About half the country lives in the Windsor to Quebec city corridor, a region with population density of Spain.
Most of the northern wilderness is unoccupied. It makes no sense to say we can't have good passenger rail just because Victoria Island exists.
Yeah nobody is saying that the Yupik villages need subways, but Toronto should probably have a good light rail.
Cities need to be much more transit/pedestrian oriented because they do not cover much area.
Cars should be used for servicing the country and for visiting towns.
"Yes you're right but I'm going to phrase it like you're wrong"
The issue isn't that living in Edwin or Newton in Manitoba is based around driving a car, it's that life in Winnipeg, Manitoba is still based around driving a car. The problem is that car culture is still what cities are built around.
Do people have to drive all the way across the country every single day? The size of the country does not dictate its dependency on the automobile. North American cities were walkable before the car and they can be walkable again. Car dependency is a result of policy not the size of the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ
On average, how many times a year do you go from Thunder Bay to Whitehorse versus how many times a year do you get groceries around the block?
The overwhelming majority of the population lives in a narrow ~100km band over the southern border. How do you not have a decent transit system when its so concentrated?