Flipped the units? I've never seen density measures as km²/person! Where are you seeing density measured as area per person?

But the appeal of being a farmer is too great for the average person. They want to have to get into a vehicle every time they go to do something.

We're getting to the point where that's neither here nor there because however much they want that, people can't afford it.

I lived in Orleans, Kanata, and Nepean. Nepean was almost worth it. (Almost because although there was a massive shopping centre a road-crossing away from me, it was a road you couldn't conveniently cross and it took 20 minutes+ to get to it if you didn't want to take your life in your own hands.) Orleans and Kanata were suburban wastelands.

The Transitway was great if you lived in the suburbs and worked downtown. Feeder route to Transitway to downtown in the morning. Transitway to feeder route to home in the evening. If you had any other movement pattern OC Transpo was a nightmare of missed connections and half-hour buses that came once every hour. Basically if you weren't a civil servant working downtown or someone servicing the same, a car was obligatory if you were in Orleans or Kanata. (May God have mercy on your mortal soul if you needed to take THREE buses!)

When my friends (who live in Bells Corners) visited me here they were amazed at buses that came every five minutes except very late in the day (where that became ever 15), even on the weird distant routes. They were amazed at a subway system that got you 80% of the way there most of the time. And they were amazed at how little they had to use it when they weren't visiting specific places (like a museum or other such touristy tat).

Building density is not as simple as just putting up more apartment buildings. it requires planning for how to expand schools, make sure that utilities are not over burdened, traffic congestion and ways to mitigate it etc. Expanding suburbs have all the same problems and more. It absolutely can be done, but doing it right requires proper preparation otherwise you create new and different problems.

🤦 Alright here ya go ⬆️

Now get outta here.

We HAVE other cities across Canada already that could be used as other locations for companies. We don't need to build more.

What the government needs to do is provide incentives for companies to move. But that could mean job losses in Toronto/Ontario. Would they be willing to make that sacrifice? I don't think so.

I agree with the high speed rail thing though.