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@barvdw Apartments even if they might be more profitable in the long run, require more effort to maintain and you have to become a landlord. Why would developers do that when they can build some big houses or an entire subdivision, sell them all, make a nice profit and then move on to the next project? Also when we're talking about affordable housing, you're often not dealing with the nicest most peaceful people which causes another problem of crime and violence. Who wants to deal with that when you can move to a nicer, more quieter neighborhood and most of those issues? A few years ago our government decided to build a few new safe injection sites in different downtown neighborhoods promising they wouldn't impact those communities much and now we see that those facilities simply bring in all the drug addicts to the area and they drop their needles and crap all over the place and crime and violence is up in those areas and people feel less safe there now too. The goal of taking addicts off the street and keeping drug use away from the public did the exact opposite. And getting back to transit after having had a car for 20 years now, I would never go back to public transit unless I absolutely had to even if it were a top notch system. If I were living near downtown then that would change things, but other than that I would never give up my car simply because I love driving and its always going to be more convenient and comfortable. Pretty much the only thing I miss about public transit is the random pretty girls I would see every so often during my commute. 😄 😄 😄
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@mohamedaminekoubaa5231 Car share might be a good alternative for some people depending if they live close to a place that has carshare vehicles nearby don't you think? If you live somewhat far away from the nearest carshare place do they deliver the car to you or something? Also it still doesn't beat the complete convenience of having your own vehicle if you can afford it. The simple fact that you can use it at anytime you need it to go where you want to go is the biggest advantage of owning your own car. If I want to just buy a couple of coffees at the local McDonalds, do I really want to go through the trouble of using carshare or getting it delivered? The bottom line is convenience is the biggest advantage of owning a car especially the further away you live from dense areas. I think the best way to eliminate at least a decent portion of car trips is to simply build larger condo units to make it more appealing to raising a family and for people looking for more space and also to have more self-contained communities where you can have many services and stores be a short walk, bike ride or at most a short drive away. Unfortunately I doubt developers will ever want to build large condo units again like they use to when they can build tiny units and still sell them at a high price where I live.
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@singleturbosupra7951 There's a couple of things. First you need to force developers, city planners and politicians to change the way they decide to build cities before anything else. Maybe if they changed then some people might be more open to living in higher density areas that require a car less often. Second as much as the idea of living in higher density areas is good for alot of reasons, many people including myself kinda don't want to and prefer to live away from tons of not so great people. I wouldn't have a problem with living in Tokyo in an apartment for example, but would I want to do the same in downtown Toronto which is my city? HELL NO. The city streets here aren't super dangerous, but they're not super safe either and there are also many inconsiderate and not so nice people that I'd prefer not to be my potential condo neighbours. And this relates to transit as well where I'd rather not share a ride with violent and/or not so stable people. And also I just plain LOVE to drive. Not only for convenience, but for just the plain joy of driving around and I'd NEVER want to give it up completely. Drive less? Sure. But give up my car? I'd prefer not to as long as I can afford to drive.
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@punnequraq If you buy a good, reliable car major maintanance issues should be minimal and the biggest expenses should be insurance and gas in most years. Also big objects isn't the main reason for having a car. I mean its nice to have say an SUV or something and be able to haul larger objects from time to time, but the main reasons to drive are convenience and efficiency. As had been said many times, unless you live in an area that has great transit, its almost always better to drive. This is especially true if you want to visit several different places in several different areas. Transit will almost NEVER be quicker than to simply driving to those places all in one trip versus trying to go to all those same places by transit. If I lived in a city like Tokyo where public transit was fast, reliable, safe, clean and widespread enough to get you to most places then I would have no problems living without a car, but sadly many if not most places in the world have transit like Tokyo especially in North America and hence cars are still the best way to get around.
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@jellybeansi Car share might be a solution if it were more widespread. I don't think in many places especially in the suburbs you'll have many convenient car share locations setup so that it makes sense for people to go and use it. Also it still doesn't solve the problem of people simply wanting to take spontaneous quick trips that may require a short car ride and yet doesn't need a car rental. To me the best solution is to still build better neighborhoods that have good density and is people friendly. That's a better solution than almost every other option including public transit that's often not as good as people think it is and that's not including the cost of running the system which is often money losing.
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@kevinaguilar7541 Pretty much every single race/ethnicity has had violence, tragedy and horrors visited upon them in one time of their history or another. The difference is that those race/ethnicities that become successful are the ones that are able to MOVE PAST those past tragedies and they choose to work hard in the present for the well being of their families in the future. The people who are the least successful are the ones who can't put the past behind them and instead forever live in the past and have it define them as a people. Black people and natives seemingly can't go a day without talking about their past history of being victims while asians who have been victimized haven't forgotten their history, just that they believe that living in the past is pointless and that the most sensible thing to do is to work towards a better future for themselves and their society. Its a shame black people can't adopt the same perspective and give up on guilt shaming and grifting off their past and instead concentrate on raising their kids right, getting them educated and having them become decent people rather than growing up to be the next generation of thugs and criminals.
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@W Clark This is what happens when you have a stupid and corrupt mayor and city council that's been bought and is also so woke that they spend more time voting on wasting 6+ million in taxpayer money to change a street name that most people didn't want changed instead of properly running a city and building a nice place for people to live. I didn't think John Tory would be a bigger disaster than Rob Ford, but sadly Tory is so much worse.
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Tell that to the 20+ million poor white Americans living in the same poverty as black Americans do.
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@blitzn00dle50 The three scenarios you described if people were paying attention to their surroundings they have a chance of avoiding an accident happening to them. If they don't pay attention at all, THERE'S NO CHANCE of avoiding an accident. The point is that if you're attentive and aware at least you give yourself some chance of saving yourself from a bad situation and if you choose not to then you're leaving your life up to other people. I don't disagree that drivers need to be more careful around pedestrians, but to completely absolve people of any responsibility in these kinds of incidents is just plain dumb. Imagine if you're walking through a known dangerous and violent neighbourhood and you had no choice to avoid doing it. Do you think its wise to walk through such a neighbourhood with your smartphone in hand looking at the screen and not paying attention to your surroundings? Probably not right? If you had half a brain you'd probably keep your head up and put your phone away and watch out for any suspicious looking people wouldn't you? So if that's the case why wouldn't you do the same when crossing a street full of vehicles that could injure or even kill you? You can't control everything, but you control what you can. That's the main point that people defending pedestrians who don't pay attention don't seem to understand.
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Because whoever manages the traffic in the GTA are ABSOLUTE MORONS. If these people in charge did nothing else but retime traffic lights to mostly favor major roads and give them the most green light time, traffic would be flowing much, MUCH better. Try driving along a major road like Steeles Ave. for a while and you'll see exactly what I mean. Steeles has tons of traffic going east/west and yet lesser roads and even roads that come out of residential neighbourhoods will still have long green lights that run 10-30 seconds that will cause the traffic on Steeles to needlessly pile up while only a few cars are going north/south. If the city's traffic managers weren't such morons, the simple change of giving Steeles Ave. the majority of green light time would immediately improve traffic on that major artery through the city. Now do that for every major road throughout all the GTA and see how quickly traffic would improve.
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@langhamp8912 I agree with you that we need to do much more to keep the planet clean and safe for humans and all other lifeforms, but simply saying 'we need to get rid of cars' isn't the answer and it won't ever happen anyways. Why not think of other solutions to the problem like building better more livable cities that require less car travel and less transit and on a larger scale, stop increasing the human population so dramatically so that we continue to consume resources at a massive rate? ' Right now, because of people like you, we are heading for an outcome where eventually only a small fraction of people can live on this earth at a greatly reduced lifestyle. ' Well is it really our fault that many nations who are poor are usually run by corrupt and incompetent people who also allow their populations to grow out of control? Maybe if more poor nations in the world would control their population growth much better and made better choices for their countries they could have better standards of living for their people as well.
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I dont get it. Why waste all that paint to paint the roadway like that? Seems like that isn't very environmentally friendly, a waste of money and time and really isn't necessary. Just put up some concrete barriers for safety, some planters and signs that make it clear that its for pedestrian traffic only. Done and done and save a ton of paint.
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@Aphrx University Ave. is a lot better than the Gardiner. Hard disagree. Unless you have clear separation between pedestrians/cyclists and vehicles on this new boulevard then it will be much worse for everyone. You can't have people and vehicles mixing and not expect more traffic problems. You also can't have people and vehicles mixing and not expect more chances for accidents. If you want a preview of what a new boulevard would look like then all you need to do is look at under the Gardiner at Lakeshore Blvd. where traffic is bad with traffic lights and also its dangerous for people to cross Lakeshore Blvd because of so many lanes to cross. I'll take the clear separation between people and vehicles over that any day. The only way you could fix this would be to make the boulevard below street level so that you can have bridges for people to cross it at street level. Or else do what Hong Kong does and build elevated walkways so that pedestrians go up and over rather than crossing at street level. Both ways would separate people and cars which is better than having another University Ave.
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Its a social experiment that western governments have implemented everywhere and the results are always the same. Certain demographics can't be peaceful and non-violent no matter what country they settle in, unless its in China and then they're very peaceful and law abiding. I wonder why? LOL
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The thing is most minorities DO NOT suffer while living in the US. Many are doing very well if not better than even white Americans are and even those immigrants that aren't doing as well financially, the vast majority of them aren't violent and criminal like far too many black people are and as a result most of them are living in peace unlike black communities of whom so many are crapholes to this day.
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@Codraroll Here its usually the same thing where often the rule is only one side at a time is used for parking, but in the suburbs this isn't always the case when you at times have cars parking on both sides maybe overnight or maybe temporarily when someone is visiting their friends or family and then you have to let one car pass before another can. Either way many older streets in Toronto are pretty narrow and it would be much better if they were wider, but I guess city planners at the time didn't think that there would be that much vehicle traffic using those roads perhaps.
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@matletico I agree that there are alot of assholes behind the wheel of vehicles, but there are alot of good, decent drivers as well who enjoy driving and do it safely. Also again I'll say until politicians, city planners and developers start building better more people friendly communities nothing will change. I would love to see more of those kinds of communities being built, but the thing is all the people in charge aren't building them. Living in Toronto even when I drive out into new developments outside of the city its the same car oriented neighbourhoods being built even when they could change and build something completely different and far more people centric. Sad to see it, but what can people really do to change things when everyone in charge choose not to change?
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1960s - The people of San Francisco save their city from freeways 2000s - The people of San Francisco allow their city to be overrun with bums, drug addicts and criminals
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If those highrises don't fall down because they're poorly constructed, then things will be fine. Most asian people like living peacefully and helping each other out rather than murdering their own kind and destroying everything around them.
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@mukrifachri That's the thing though. The way the Japanese designed it, even with wide multi-lane roads and elevated highways and rail lines running throughout Tokyo, its stil a great city where those roads and rail lines don't make the city any worse, but increase the ability of their population to move around. Where I live in Toronto, the city only has one elevated expressway running through its city core and yet many people can complained about it and have wanted to tear it down for many years now because it 'divides the city from its waterfront and it looks ugly' etc. To me I've always like the Gardiner and I wish Toronto would have at least a couple of more highways running through it to make traffic flow better. If Tokyo can do it and have it not negatively impact their city why can't other cities do it as well?
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@Jay-ho9io What racism and classism? Where developers built their highways on cheaper land located in poorer neighourhoods? What other issues were there?
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@mukrifachri They may not have the big multi-lane highways that the GTA has, but they look to have WAY more highways in general in and around Tokyo. If Toronto/GTA had even half as many highway/expressways as Tokyo and their region had, people would be losing their minds. So yes the GTA might have more lanes on their highways, but Tokyo has wayyy more running throughout their city and suburbs that the GTA does. As for their surface roads well it seems to work for them in that they can have multi-lane roads running throughout their city and yet they have plenty of pedestrian friendly areas branching off those roads too so they seem to have a good mix of both that makes their city very people friendly despite having alot of vehicle traffic running through the city as well.
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@krombopulos_michael I disagree somewhat. I mean people living in Canada are always going to be the predominate buyers/sellers of property, but that doesn't mean there aren't many foreign buyers who buy real estate here to park their money as an investment or as another home that they can use when needed and these people usually buy in the best neighbourhoods of the GTA and thereby drive up the prices in those communities even faster. This in turn drives up prices further and further out into the suburbs until you really have to go far out to places like Pickering or Oshawa or much more north or west to find something affordable. Also many Canadians buy multiple homes for investment as well so that's alot of properties that are being owned by wealthier people and anyone who's looking to buy their first home is also impacted by that. As for Airbnb, they have thousands of units across the GTA everywhere so that takes away inventory that might otherwise be used as long term rentals or have people purchase those homes for actual living in. There are a number of condo buildings in the heart of Toronto that have tons of Airbnb units to the point that that has become what they're known for and its why they have had a number of violent incidents in addition to the regular noise and disturbance issues that plague people who live there. Also Toronto/GTA is constantly building more condos and housing construction everywhere, but the thing is how much of it is affordable and are the right kind of housing to meet the needs of the people? 20-30 years ago you could buy a pretty decent sized 2-3 bedroom condo that you could raise a family in for not too high a price, but now if you want to buy a similarly sized condo its going to cost you a ton depending on where you're buying. The best way to improve things is to slow down the number of people coming to Canada and the next best thing is to build more condos that are large enough to raise at least a small family in, but what developer is going to do that when they want to maximize profits and sell as many units as they can for the highest price that they can?
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@knockhello2604 Even if you like the city it doesn't mean you have to constantly go down to spend your time there. I live in Toronto and as a teen I use to go downtown all the time to have fun and spend my time there, but now as I've grown up and moved out in the suburbs, I don't miss downtown at all and will be lucky to go down there maybe once or twice a year at most. The suburbs have matured enough to have everything that downtown does and then some, but without the crime, violence and assorted crazy people.
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I think alot of people wouldn't mind living in more dense housing and neighborhoods, but the problem is in many cases city planners and developers make crappy decisions that lead to poorly constructed communities. City planners constantly make shitty decisions that force people to rely on cars to get around and developers have little to no desire to build large condo units suitable for larger families to raise their kids in. I mean why do that when you can maximize profit by building smaller one or two bedroom units that you can sell for more money? Also in North America there's still tons of land around so with so much space to build on, there's no incentive for people to build more highrises in the suburbs rather than new homes.
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@ryandomo5018 'The city controls zoning codes and all the regulations that create the American suburban environment, so we should change the rules to allow and encourage more sustainable development.' Changing the zoning laws might help, but I feel its already too late in many places. No one is ever going to stop building houses now and the best you can hope for is that developers will slowly fill in the gaps of already built neighhourhoods with higher density housing. For example in Toronto where I am, I live in the suburbs where its mostly houses and townhouses and some condos and apartments mixed in here and there. Recently a couple blocks away from me a developer tore down a large old plaza on a corner and is now building a row of townhouses. I think that's what we can hope for more of at best because people want will continue to want houses first if they can afford it and then look at other options if they can't. Only way you could ever stop more houses being built and more sprawl from happening is if the local government forces high density housing and with all the land we have I doubt that will ever happen.
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@l0ndon429 Boston simply moved their traffic from above ground to below it with the massive tunnels they've built for vehicles. Go look up the Big Dig and see for yourself what that project was all about. 'Los Angeles 2030 has a clear vision of reducing emissions and encouraging active transport. San Francisco has taken moves to pedestrianise major roads. ' Goodluck to LA in trying to hit those emission goals. If they can do it good for them, but I'm not holding my breath on that one. 'Austin has a $7 billion plan to create a complete and comprehensive with a new light rail, new electric bike fleet, expanded bus services, all electric bus fleet and new and expanded commuter lines, and so much more. ' Its one thing to create all those things, its quite another to convince people to give up their cars to use all those bikes, buses etc. if its not convenient for them to do so. I'm sure people living in downtown Austin will likely adopt to using those things more, but people living in the suburbs? I doubt they'll switch over anytime soon. 'And yes, some cities have continued to build more highways and worse, but the general trend is very clear. Things are changing, they’re not ‘the ways things will always be’ as you describe.' The trend is people who live in the city core and around those areas will use transit and other means of transportation more while everyone else will continue to drive if they can afford to because it will likely remain the most convenient form of transportation for decades to come.
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@l0ndon429 The point is Boston didn't so much as reduce traffic by a ton if any as they chose to simply bury it instead. So I don't know how they're reducing car usage by alot rather than moving it elsewehre. As for LA lets see how things trend in the next few years before calling their measures a success. 'But as you say, people will generally use whatever is convenient for them. Being able to take a commuter train to work everyday for a significant minority of people might mean they get a smaller car instead of a larger one, or go from 3 cars in the family to 2, all important steps and yes these changes will take decades. ' Unless Austin has some expansive transit plan, most people are still going to choose to drive than to take transit which will often if not most times take more time to get anywhere let alone going to multiple destinations in one day. That's the beauty of having a car that I and many others wouldn't ever want to give up which is the ability to go wherever you want to go, when you want to go with few restrictions. I can originally make a plan to go from A to B, but along the way perhaps I see C and decide to drop by for a quick visit first. Then after I visit B, on my way home I decide to visit D and E for abit before finally heading home. All that can be easily and efficiently accomplished by driving to all those places while it would often be very difficult and time consuming to do the same on public transit. And really in many cases no matter how much transit you build, it will never reach the level of ease and efficiency with getting from A to B as you can with a car.
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Its ALWAYS someone else's fault and not the people living there isn't it? I bet if you replaced all the people in these projects with Japanese people, today these same buildings would be thriving, peaceful and great places to live. The area would be properous and the streets safe and people would be wanting to move INTO the area instead of running away from it.
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I don't mind strip malls, but I hate that so many of them don't have extended overhead coverings over the walkway to protect people from the rain, snow etc. Makes walking around a strip mall a shitty experience in bad weather.
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Chicago is definitely OP with violence, crime and murder. Need to nerf that ASAP, but I doubt it will ever happen.
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@shadowvoider Disproportionately people of color have less wealth, it's just a rebranding of the old system with a new sticker. The same issues of red lining still comes up with as well, then the issue historical white flight from urban regions are intertwined with it. Aren't asians 'people of color'? I don't think many if not most of them are lacking wealth and even if some of them are they certainly aren't blaming others or 'the system' as to why they're not as rich as someone else.
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@AndroidsDontDance You do realize that Canada was created in 1867 right? That's 34 YEARS AFTER SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE. IE Canada was born LONG AFTER slavery was gone or mostly so in the British Empire. So how do you figure that Canada had black slaves in their history when they only came into existence AFTER slavery was abolished? And how come you fail to mention the Underground Railroad? You know that little part of history where Canada took in TENS OF THOUSANDS of escaping black slaves from America and gave them refuge here? Funny how you leave that part of Canada's history out because it GOES AGAINST your narrative that Canada is racist towards blacks. Nice job of not telling the complete truth and maybe YOU should educate your dumbass before trying to engage in a discussion on the topic. >_> And also please show me the proof that Canada was very racist towards black people when they were probably more racist towards Chinese people when they first arrived here and yet you don't see the Chinese holding an eternal grudge against Canada and Canadians. Chinese people chose to adapt to their new enviroment and work hard to improve and better themselves and that's exactly what happened through the decades. Blacks on the otherhand much like the Natives chose to bitch and moan and cry about everything while neglecting to raise their kids properly and now you understand why Chinese people in Canada are successful while blacks and Natives have high crime and violence rates and are doing the worst here. Maybe if these two groups spent less time whining about everything not going their way and more time on raising their kids right, working towards a strong family and a good community they'd be much better off than they are now. But that would require hard work which clearly many blacks and Natives aren't willing to put in.
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@AndroidsDontDance First of did you not read your own link with regards to slavery in Canada? Any slaves that were on the North American continent on land that we now know as Canada HAPPENED BEFORE CANADA WAS CREATED. Slavery was abolished among British colonies in 1833 WHICH IS 34 YEARS BEFORE CANADA WAS BORN IN 1867. So how exactly were there slaves in 'Canada' when slavery ended long before Canada came into existence? Secondly there was no massive problem of racism against black people in Canada and you do know about the Underground Railroad where Canada took in hundreds of thousands of escaping slaves from America and allowed them to live freely here right? Does that sound like something a racist nation of people would do? Third black people in Canada have EXACTLY THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES to succeed as any other person in Canada does, but the difference is many blacks don't take advantage of those opportunities and instead turn to crime and violence. Blacks can't blame anyone but themselves for that and maybe if black parents did a better job of raising their kids right, perhaps they'd be better human beings that are more capable of being civilized and educated instead of turning into violent, criminal thugs far too often. Fourth I mention Chinese people because they're the predominate asian group in Canada, but ANY asian group in Canada are mostly hardworking and peaceful and don't cause anyone much trouble. The same can't be said for black people who are fucking up Toronto and pretty much everywhere else they live in Canada with their violence and crime. And YES IT DOES HAVE ENTIRELY to do with some people being able to adapt to their circumstances and othre groups of people being incapable of doing so. This is why asian people who move to ANY country are mostly doing well, while black people who move to ANY country mostly are doing poorly and even worse are turning the countries they settle into worst places than before they arrived.
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@FOOKYOUTUBENUMBERS I disagree. When big companies pull out of a town that depends on them poverty may happen, but crime and violence doesn't automatically go up by massive amounts just because of that. Its because of a certain demographic of people that turn every place they populate in significant numbers into a violent and dangerous craphole to live.
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The city council did a study that found that it would take a 12 lane boulevard to replace the Gardiner; I believe that they've now been renovating it. A boulevard of that size would be horrible and much worse than keeping the Gardiner or building an entirely new one. I don't know why people ever liked the idea of a boulevard unless vehicles and pedestrians/cyclists were completely separated from each other. Otherwise it would make traffic worse and place people in danger when they're trying to cross. Apparently, a developer had offered to put it under ground if he could develop on top, but city councillors are the dumbest people. Do you have a link for this because that's the first time I've heard of it because it would cost a boatload of money to tunnel under downtown Toronto to build such a underground roadway. Hard to believe that many developers would want to pony up billions to build that tunnel before they spend more billions to build on top of it.
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At least you have great weather there year round. Winters really suck balls and if I were rich I'd move to a winterless location ASAP.
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Unfortunately Toronto is at a low point when it comes to removal of the Gardiner Expressway. The Expressway is crumbling and needs a commitment to either tear it down or repair it. I would tear down the existing Gardiner and build a brand new one with modern materials and design so that it could last decades more. Never understood why people would advocate tearing down the Gardiner to replace it with a boulevard that would both slow down traffic and make things more dangerous for pedestrians/cyclists unless they were complete separated from vehicles.
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@sea_yung though i do agree that in this day and age, black people are treated as if they're "off limits" to criticism, i think it is valid to a certain extent. as the video describes, blacks have historically been subjected to various racist practices that have unfortunately put them in such a position to commit crimes. I disagree. This is just taking agency away from black people for all the violence, crime and general bad behavior that they exhibit on a daily basis and making excuses for them. In Canada we do this not only for black people, but also for native people as well and we should STOP doing so because its treating these groups of people as if they were children that have no control or awareness as to their actions and words and so we should excuse their poor behaviors as a result. We would NEVER do this for white people and most anyone else and yet its perfectly fine to do so for black and native people here where I am and its just insane. And the sad thing is that we allow this to happen not just in the US and Canada, but pretty much in every western country. Anytime they behave poorly there will ALWAYS be people to defend those behaviors when they would NEVER do it for most other people doing the same thing. Also with regards to 'racist practices' that make black people become violent and dangerous, that's UTTER BULLCRAP and its just another excuse to justify their crappy and violent behaviors. In Canada black people were never enslaved or had any kind of Jim Crow laws pushed onto them. I'm not saying that blacks in Canada never faced any racism or something, but what they faced is basically minor in comparison to what blacks faced in many other parts of the world. In fact so little have happened to black Canadians, they need to grift off of what has happened to black people in the US and elsewhere in the world to make themselves out to be bigger victims than they really are. the way you compare unreliable cars with violent demographics is pretty much saying that these people groups are inherently violent The comparison I was making had less to do with cars themselves and more to do with the company and the leadership in charge of making those cars. Namely if a company puts out an unreliable and/or dangerous car, then you can demand that they fix things or simply stop buying their product. The thing is you can't do that with black people. If they're violent and criminal and you try and hold them accountable for their actions, they call you racist and anti-black. On the otherhand you can't ban them from stores because they keep robbing you and you can't arm yourselves against them because if you fight back and injure or even kill them, well you're in deep shit for possibly committing not only murder but a 'hate crime' as well. So the public is pretty much screwed when living with black people. You're not allowed to demand that they change and shape up and you can't avoid them completely because they're everywhere and you can't stop them from going to the same places that you go to. If you own a store good luck to you because even if you hire security, they usually won't do anything to stop shoplifters because not only can the guards get injured, but also if the guards injure the criminal then the guard and store are possibly held liable and can be sued. Liquor and many other big box stores literally allow thieves to walk out with stuff and not even bother trying to stop them because its simply not worth it these days. The point is with a product or service if its crappy you simply stop buying and the company has to either change or lose customers and money and potentially go bankrupt. With black people you can't hold them similarly accountable and demand that they change because 'that's racist' and yet you can't stay away from them or ban them from places because that too is racist. So people are just stuck with living with these violent and criminal people and they have to do so in silence for fear of backlash for even the most mild of criticism towards them which is just plain wrong.
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@cmdrls212 This is only an issue when you have too much of a couple of certain demographics living in your area. At my local McDonalds, of all the times I've ever gone there its almost always just one demographic of people that causes the most trouble and are looking for a fight.
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Boulevards instead of a highway is dumb in many cases. I don't understand how that works for cars, pedestrians or cyclists when highways at least separate vehicles from the other two. Boulevards just make massive stroads with little benefit to anyone.
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In Toronto we still have the mistake that is the Gardiner, and while a tiny portion of it was removed most of the elevated part through downtown Toronto still exists. It used to be under city jurisdiction and took up half!!! of the total maintenance costs of all roads in the entire city all by itself. This is why I'm in favor of tearing down the old Gardiner and replace it with a brand new one built with modern materials and design so that it can last for many decades rather than trying to repair the existing one.
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@norman_5623 I don't doubt there are black people who are very intelligent and who have good jobs. What I do question is the AMOUNT of black people who are actually smart and are working in fields that require high levels of education while being peaceful and civil. Maybe where you live the percentage of black people who fit that bill is higher, but where I live and pretty much in the majority of places where blacks settle in significant numbers, this is NOT the case. Maybe all those commercials, TV shows and movies that show black people as being smart, resourceful and peaceful have done its job in brainwashing many people to accept that as representing how the majority of black people are, but if we're being honest and are talking about actual reality, that is NOT the case and never has been. I think Hollywood these days is portraying black people as what they WISHED they were like rather than what they really are. The 'ideal' black person if you will who's smart, hardworking, law abiding etc. Its like they're too afraid to portray black people in any kind of negative light for fear of backlash and the possibility of being cancelled. Don't get me wrong I wish the majority of black people were like what Hollywood portrays, but if you care about the truth then you know that its not true. I live in Toronto which is one of the most diverse cities on the entire planet and we've already crossed the line of being a majority minority city and guess what? Despite only making up about 7% of the city's population, black people still commit the overwhelming majority of crime, violence and murders here and its not even close. Think about it for a moment and realize that in Toronto and surrounding cities where 6.3+ million people live, 93% of non-black people can't even come close to committing the amount of shootings, stabbings and other violent crimes that a small 7% black population commits. This means that the 5.8+ MILLION non-black population here commits less crime and violence than the 450,000 or so black people who live here. This is the reality that this city and its suburbs are dealing with when it comes to black people that no one wants to acknowledge publicly because that would be deemed racist and discriminatory.
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@WoodChoppa911 blaming the whole race is discriminatory. Crime mostly doesn't run in your blood, and definitely not by race. If you say that there are places which have many good black people, then maybe the problem is actually your city. The thing is I DON'T blame ALL black people and I think people like you can't see the distinction between acknowledging the facts and thinking this means you're blaming or demonizing every single black person. When the statistics show beyond any doubt that every year black people commit the most crime, violence and murder for their population size, how is that in any way, shape or form considered 'racist' to simply state what the facts show? That shows that black people have a systemic crime and violence problem among their communities. Sure this doesn't show EVERY black community has these problems, but clearly many if not the majority do which is why black people with the money and means to choose where they live rarely if ever choose to live among their own kind. And its quite funny that even BLM organizers who have grifted hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars off of their sham movement choose to buy homes in wealthy predominately white neighborhoods. That's how little confidence these people have in their own kind to not harm them or their property that they would choose to live with 'racist' white people who supposedly systemically discriminate against them. You can't just blame a whole race just because of the ones committing the crimes, you should look at their background, a lot black people in north america and europe, even in african states, live in poverty because of colonization, slavery, and lastly long lasting discrimination. Do you not see the obvious problem with your argument? If outside factors impact people so much as to cause them to go out and commit crime and violence then ask yourself why don't you see these same crime and violence issues cutting across ALL races/ethnicities who are poor and are living in poverty? We should be seeing at least SOME significant increases in crime and violence among poor asians, Indians, latinos etc. to prove that poverty to prove your point, but the fact is we don't see that. In Toronto we have more poor people living here than the total population of black people with most of them being minorities from all across the world. Yet despite living in the EXACT SAME conditions and sharing the EXACT SAME schools, parks, stores and everything else with black people that they live side by side with, all these poor people DO NOT have the same crime and violence problems that black people do. So answer me how can this be possible? That minorities can live in the same buildings as black people and share the exact same environment and not have their kids turn to crime and gangs and have them carrying guns and shooting people everyday? Clearly this isn't an environment issue as much as its a family issue where black people are piss poor parents to their kids and don't know how to raise them properly on a large scale. That's the main reason that sets black people apart from everyone else. The cycle will continue unless you and everyone else understands that people aren't born a criminal and it's a systemic problem, not biological. I NEVER said that black people are born a criminal, but its very clear that black people do an utter shit job of raising their kids to be decent human beings who have morals, compassion for their fellow man and to know how to make good life choices that keep them away from crime and violence. And its also true that black people have little to no interest in turning in all the thugs and criminals that live among them so that they're off the streets and are no longer a threat to the public. These are all predominately black people problems which is why they're constantly being talked about. The problem is black people instead of acknowledging their issues and dealing with it head on and getting things fixed once and for all, they choose to lash out at anyone who would DARE call them out on their horrible behaviors. Sadly all our politicians, the justice system and the media would rather all be cowards and allow things to keep getting worse and worse than be brave and stand up and do something about these problems because to do so would likely lead to the end of their careers among accusations of being 'racist and intolerant'. So they all pretend that all the problems that black people have are NOT of their own making and that its ALWAYS a variety of external factors that are causing black people to behave this way. Essentially they're treating black people like children who have absolutely no responsibility or agency for anything they say or do. Ask yourself what incentive would black people have to change their behaviors when most people and especially all our leaders are always going to bat for them and defending their actions no matter what they do? Maybe there would be a chance that things would change if anyone had the balls to try and hold black people accountable for their behaviors just like they would hold any other race/ethnic group of people responsible for their behaviors. But doing that would be considered 'racist' as you and many others have plainly stated so instead we allow them to run wild and get away with every increasingly worse behaviors because no one has the balls to stop them.
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@user-gu9yq5sj7c Yeah, but you saying something racist is not helping and makes things worse. I'm for criticizing and helping anyone. You can do both. How are facts racist? You can dislike what the facts show, but its not racist to state statistics and facts that have been gathered by recognized organizations and the government as being 'racist'. Why not just acknowledge the data and then deal with the problem rather than calling the data racist and then trying to cover it up because it doesn't fit the narrative that's being pushed by our politicians, the media and many in the general public? Lets just put it this way. If the data showed that white people were the most violent and criminal and committed the most interracial crime, you and all our leaders and the media would have ABSOLUTELY ZERO problems with letting the public know about those facts every damn day. All of a sudden THOSE facts wouldn't be considered 'racist' and they would just be facts.
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@williamhuang8309 Seriously if you believe that crime on public transit 'rarely happens', then I invite you to go to the subreddits of New York, Chicago, Baltimore, DC, Detroit and a number of other US cities with significant black populations and ask the people living there whether they believe that crime and violence on public transit is a 'rare' occurrence. I think you'll get a far different answer that will go against what you believe.
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@williamhuang8309 Where do you live? There's a HUGE difference between taking transit in Tokyo vs taking transit in Chicago. Seems like the area you're in is pretty safe. Why don't you try taking the transit in Chicago for a month and then report back and see if you don't have a different opinion? And also I'll say again, we all know that transit works best and most efficiently when there's high density of people. However there are many areas in the US and elsewhere that don't have very good density and cars are almost a must. If you want to change that then you need to change the way cities are planned, but with how much land is available in North America its going to be hard to change developers and people's minds when they're use to having houses. Unless you start building large condo units that can support raising families in that are affordable, I doubt you'll ever get a mass of people switching from houses to condos. Also alot of car accidents are a result of bad road planning and drivers rather than cars being bad themselves. If city planners would switch roundabouts instead of sticking with stupid traffic lights you could probably cut down a huge amount of accidents and deaths in North America.
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@spinecho609 Are you saying wanting to limit the number of immigrants who often have different cultures, religions, beliefs etc. and have difficulty integrating into western countries is racist? If that's the case how come no one is criticising Israel and the Jews for their isolationist and racist immigration policies? Why aren't people like you complaining and moaning that Jewish people need to be more inclusive, diverse and multicultural instead of being so anti-immigration?
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How does a highway 'section off areas' when you have plenty of bridges connecting areas over highways? Anytime you see an urban highway there's ALWAYS bridges above to connect one side to the other or if its an elevated highway then you have roads or tunnels beneath it for people and vehicles to cross.
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@jamesbell739 The video explains how highways cut off neighborhoods. That's the exact reason why they are trying to take some of them down. If you need a lesson you can look up urban renewal and redlining, on your own time. I've watched plenty of videos that people have made about how highways 'cut off neighborhoods' and how that may supposedly negatively affect different areas I don't agree with them. If what they said were actually true then Tokyo should be one of the worst affected by this because their entire city has both highways and rail lines cutting through their whole city all over the place. However do you know what the Japanese do about this? Rather than calling it 'blight', they build RIGHT UP to these elevated rail lines and highways and often even build right UNDER these places. Namely you have an elevated rail line above and then a bunch of businesses right beneath them so as not to waste valuable real estate. The point is the Japanese didn't look at their highways running through their city as being ugly and a detriment to their city, they simply adapted and integrated it into their cityscape.
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