Dan416
Senior Member
A city is a legal entity. Not necessarily an urban one.
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Transit City Plan
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nfitz
Superstar
A City is a legal entity. Not necessarily an urban one.
A city is an urban entity. Not necessarily a legal one.
GenerationW
Senior Member
Because Vaughan and York Region have ambition, foresight, and friends in high places. Toronto, not so much.
The term megacity (or as Gord Stellek uniquely called it, meGAcity) was used constantly to describe Toronto during and after the last amalgamation, but alas that faded into obscurity.
nfitz
Superstar
And yet we are now constructing 2 new subway stations in Vaughan, and 20 new subway stations in Toronto.
GenerationW
Senior Member
Two too many. Vaughan should be a grain of sand in Toronto's Rob Ford-sized aquarium. But what's done is done.
nfitz
Superstar
Try this on for size ... might make you feel better about it. There's a relatively decent demand as far as Steeles West.
At the ends of the major subway lines (Kennedy, Kipling, Downsview ... not sure about Finch, always seems fine the rare occasion I'm there) the subway just crawls, waiting for trains at the end to clear back into service; always seems to take to ever to go to the last couple of stops. Wouldn't it be great if there was another couple of stops unused stations east of Kennedy, and west of Kipling, so that service to those Kennedy and Kipling was better? Well, now at Steeles West, that problems is solved.
JoeParez
Transit Enthusiast
Haters gonna hate.
Mapleson
Active Member
Greenwood, BC has a population of 625 and is still a City. Vaughan had a larger population than Kitchener-Waterloo as of 2006 and probably bigger than the tri-city area by now.
CDL.TO
Moderator
Not true. Vaughan: 239k, K-W: 302k.
Electrify
Senior Member
I love how Markham has a higher population than several Canadian provinces and territories combined, yet it still refers to itself as a 'Town.'
Mapleson
Active Member
My mental estimate of Kitchener is stuck in the 90s I guess. Drop the smallest city from each segment and the point is still valid. People don't argue against the City of North Bay or City of London, as mostly farmland and suburban sprawl.
Dan416
Senior Member
Town and City are basically the same in Ontario I believe.
Komiksulo
Active Member
City of Kawartha Lakes, anyone?
doady
Senior Member
Isn't the City of Toronto mostly suburban sprawl as well? Perhaps it should be reclassified as the Town of Toronto instead.
Dan416
Senior Member
"Town of Toronto" would be too close to "Toronto Township" which is Mississauga, as I'm sure you know.