• jerakor@startrek.website
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    2 days ago

    The country has 5% of the population density of Europe. As much as I want some of the infrastructure to be more pedestrian it isn’t viable for at least half of the country. Maybe in another 200 years.

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        1 day ago

        Yet still super expensive since you need hundreds of kilometers of rail and rail maintenance between major cities not just dozens, will less passengers and tax base to pay for it.

        • greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo
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          1 day ago

          Its only expensive because you’re drowning in a cost control crisis. Its concrete sleepers, steel rails and gravel. Its rather cheap compared to road infrastructure.

          Its only expensive because you want it to be. Will of the people and all that.

    • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      complete BS. Think about it for literally 5 seconds. Do all Canadians live equally spaced throughout the country? No. They mostly live in metropolitan areas. The laws are deeply in favor of car-based infrastructure and actively anti-pedestrian. Improvement is possible, and whoever told you the density thing is either a car lobbyist or echoing their BS

    • randoot@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      We don’t need to build a subway in the Arctic. People live in cities. Ther population density of Toronto is 4.4k/km2 vs 5.3k/km2 for Stockholm. Don’t fall for car propaganda, we can afford it.