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An error occurred while saving the comment I can walk to my house from downtown faster than the bus can take me there... and its about a 50 minute walk. Sad. The LTC is broken and we need alternatives.
Instead of the city council pushing developers to the outskirts of town, it should allow renewal within the city to meet our modern needs. Time and time again, council turns down medium density housing close to the university. This means that the city deprives students of affordable housing and a short, healthy walk or bike ride to school. With more students living close to campus, higher density housing can take traffic off the road making commuting more enjoyable for everyone.
Expanding mass transit won't make our city healthier, buses pollute our air and they deprive people of light exercise on the way to their destination. Expanding transit won't make us wealthier, the LTC already requires a 20k subsidy per year just to keep running; if we expand the LTC, it will only be more. Certainly, it won't make us wiser to make such a poor decision.
Let's be clear here, sprawl is not the developers' fault, it's council's. Council is the one that turns intensification projects away. They discourage developers by declining their proposals. Developers have to find a way to make money and find the path of least resistance, which is sprawl.
Increasing density can be a lucrative business. People a willing to pay more per square foot when they have easy access to school, work and play. Let's cut the red tape for building walk-able communities.