Comment 69970

By Mr. Meister (anonymous) | Posted September 22, 2011 at 11:37:15 in reply to Comment 69885

It is all a matter of cause and effect. Mississauga, Brampton and all the others were bedroom communities before GO Transit came along. The reason we have GO Transit is because there was a demand to get people from these communities into Toronto. That is the way it works everywhere. Portland is often held up as a shining example for their LRT and other. Their LRT started to bring commuters into the core, where the jobs are, from smaller outlying communities. If my memory is correct the first line went to Gresham about 15 or 20 km east of Portland's core. LRT or any transit is not the cause of the bedroom community or of the intensification but is the result of those things. That is why LRT in Buffalo failed so miserably. They never had the jobs and therefore the commuters downtown to support such a project. Now they are stuck with it. If and when their downtown changes into a big job place where people need to commute to every day then and only then will it actually become something truly useful.

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