My 7th visit to the GTA (place, affordable, culture)
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Yeah some people assume Toronto is the worst simply because it's the biggest city in the country. Not true.
Winnipeg is estimated to reach a million in ten years. It really needs to start planning ahead and improve transit now. In the monring it takes me between 20 to 30 minutes to drive to work, depending on traffic. On the way home it can take up to an hour on a bad day. If I had the option of good transit I would use it.
Edmonton was slightly smaller than Winnipeg is now when they started building their LRT system. Quebec and Hamilton both have LRT sytems in the works.
I agree and the time is now to start doing it. 1 million is not a small city. Those commute times aren't great. I did hour commutes before and ngl - they SUCK. I remember my trip there, there didn't seem to be a highway from the airport to the city centre. Either that or the taxi driver just wanted to give me the grand tour through city $treet$
And for the record, Toronto remains my favorite Canadian city to visit and I won't stop visiting anytime soon. Change is inevitable. The quieter and simpler Toronto of the 1990's and the sparking clean and relatively uncrowded TTC of 1998 when I first rode it are gone and not coming back. We all just need to adapt to the new and changed Toronto that's all.
I think Toronto could still change the situation on the Subway. More security is needed. As far as the crowding goes, it's going to take some time but when the line 2 expansion and the Ontario line are complete it will ease up some of the crowding hopefully. Maybe the Elginton Crosstown will help with that too.
I agree and the time is now to start doing it. 1 million is not a small city. Those commute times aren't great. I did hour commutes before and ngl - they SUCK. I remember my trip there, there didn't seem to be a highway from the airport to the city centre. Either that or the taxi driver just wanted to give me the grand tour through city $treet$
Yeah there are no freeways in the city of Winnipeg. None.
My home city of Boston is often lauded as the "Athens of America" due to its high concentration of colleges and universities and sheer amount of brainy professionals working in all sorts of high paying industries from finance to health sciences and pharmaceuticals. You can see just as many cranes going up as you would in Toronto, in fact both cities have a lot of similarities. Beneath the veneer of the sparkling highrises, the luxury condominiums and apartments, the various beer gardens, and the popular tourist attractions such as Fenway Park however, there is a highly schizophrenic environment. You have homeless sleeping just blocks from five star hotels, you have a growing number of drug addicts wandering everywhere in desperate need of mental help, you have a once reliable subway system on the edge of collapse and then you have the old guard and new guard clashing like oil and water. Toronto is not that bad yet but the most important thing is to not let the guard down. Neither Boston nor Toronto is as bad as Philadelphia, LA or San Francisco where shoplifters have become so brazen as to gang up and rob entire stores clean in one swipe, and I mean high end stores in high end districts. It's ironic really, decades ago, residents wanted to keep the poor out saying the poor will spoil their neighborhood charm but nowadays it's gone the other way around and they want to keep the rich out and saying the same thing. There is a grain of truth to that I suppose, Boston has the South End and Toronto has Regent Park. What were those two neighborhoods like four decades ago compared to now? Apples to oranges. Well we can't have both ways so we have to come to a resolution but how can we as a society do that when fingers keep getting pointed only? All we can do is learn to adjust and not let our guard down.
Speaking in a general sense, we just can't stop ignoring large sections of the populace. If we do their problems become societies problems. Increasingly, if people don't have an affordable option anywhere in the city where are they going to go. People talk about gentrification and revitalization of areas but what of the people who used to live in those areas. Where do they go. Up until the 2000's - there were always some places within T.O for them to go. Now there is nowhere for them to go so is it any wonder more and more people are just going to snap.
Yeah I hate to say it but WInnipeg is kind of the worst when it comes to infrastructure all around.
Oh btw i'm off to Costa Rica in a week. I think I remember awhile back you said you were from El Salvador. I'm flying on Avianca Costa Rica connecting in San Salvador so even though I won't be visiting the country, I will be on its soil for the first time. Just randomly throwing it out there.
Oh btw i'm off to Costa Rica in a week. I think I remember awhile back you said you were from El Salvador. I'm flying on Avianca Costa Rica connecting in San Salvador so even though I won't be visiting the country, I will be on its soil for the first time. Just randomly throwing it out there.
No my wife is from El Salvdor. I am originally from Guatemala. Have fun on your trip. Try staying in El Salvador next time. Things have really made a turn for the better there. I will probably be down there this Christmas or sometime this coming winter..
No my wife is from El Salvdor. I am originally from Guatemala. Have fun on your trip. Try staying in El Salvador next time. Things have really made a turn for the better there. I will probably be down there this Christmas or sometime this coming winter..
Yeah i have heard and i'd like to go. I used my aeroplan points though and Costa Rica was on the menu for the points I had. I've only been to Panama in Central America so this is country two. I think El Salvador and Guatemala would be incredible. The latter has Tikal and that is on my bucket list.
I think El Salvador and Guatemala would be incredible. The latter has Tikal and that is on my bucket list.
Hope you make it down. They are both very freindly countries.
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