• rozodru@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    as someone who lives in Toronto I mean…you really don’t need an extensive subway network here. We have a lot of buses and several lines of street cars (trollys, trains on the road, whatever you call them where you live).

    So what’s being shown here is ONLY the subway network. it doesn’t show the vast street car lines would would make it look A LOT like the China photo.

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      4 days ago

      mean…you really don’t need an extensive subway network here

      Found the 905’er

      The streetcar network is a complete shitshow. Multiple streetcars bunched up, with hundreds of people inside, being blocked by a few SUV drivers and parked cars on the side of the street.

      Its faster to bike or walk in most cases.

      Same for the buses. There’s a reason the bus lines here have nicknames like “the sufferin’ dufferin”

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          Utilisation is good, but overcrowding illustrates the point of this meme, which is that the public transit system is being neglected and hasn’t kept pace with demand.

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        sorry bud, I live in Beaconsfild village. I ride the vomit commit almost daily. We don’t need an extensive subway network.

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      4 days ago

      is this why there is no traffic problems in Toronto and commute is not a suicide inducing nightmare?

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      At grade == weak

      Toronto isn’t filled with great alternate modes of mass transit so much as it’s filled with excuses not to build mass transit.

      Let me weep in “Ontario line”.