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By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted September 27, 2011 at 11:21:45

As a teenager I had a lot of friends from Burlington and the mountain. That taught a lot about suburbia that way. I learned that some people have to walk for forty minutes to get to a corner store. I learned you can get away with nearly anything at night, since there's no "eyes on the street" in such a low-traffic environment. As I got older, I saw what happens as kids grow into bar-hopping age living 40 minutes past the nearest bus stop - they drive home drunk. I could go on....

Even if a given metre of suburban road is safer, suburbia as a whole isn't since you have to cover many more metres to get anywhere. This is compounded by having many more drivers who aren't used to bikes or pedestrians.

Beyond the safety issue, what happens in a decade or two when it comes time to redevelop in these neighbourhoods - how many homes will need to be demolished so we can re-establish a street pattern suitable to anything other than ultra-low-density residential?

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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