This is just sad.
This is just sad.
This is just sad.
Don't worry, there's a new line coming, and I'm sure this time won't be delayed like last time... and the time before that... and the time before that... and Jesus, this was meant to open in 2020?
Let’s make us all feel worse… courtesy by NJB https://youtu.be/HhQxNHrD6fA
I know some people absolutely dislike the guy for essentially dumping Canada and emigrated to the Netherlands, but seriously, if I go through the episodes he did: trying hard at advocacy and planning hard to improve the city, only to be met with unreasonable car-brained suburbanites throwing absolutely ridiculous arguments against the plans and essentially pouring cold water all over everyone, all in the face of facts, and you end up having to just watch things go to the shitters like you expected, you flip the table, and you leave. I can say that cause I’ve went through something similar. You end up not being able to just stay at that place anymore, no matter how much you loved it.
Before even fully reading or opening the link: notjustbikes
Chengdu went from 14 million to 21 million.
Toronto went from 2,6 million to 3 million.
Yeah...
Which justifies a whole line being erased from existence...
More just makes a point that these two might not be directly comparable
UP didn't exist in 2010
Happy cake day!
Agreed... But at least your transit system is fairly nice. Subway could def do more than go up and down though.
Well, when the state can just do things, it's amazing what you can achieve. Also, they have a massive population in comparison.
No, this is just bullshit.
As I commented on your other post:
Your comparing the population of the city of Toronto (631km2) to the city of chengdu (14,378km2) if your talking about unfair comparisons. The metro areas are closer in population chengdu (16m) vs Toronto (7m), so about double, and chengdu more then doubled Torontos metro construction.
Also If your talking about metro construction it might be better to look at production in general rather then population. Lagos in Nigeria has a similar population size to chengdu and the same sort of rapid growth over the past couple decades but nowhere near the same metro
If you look at gdp though it makes more sense, Lagos ($102b) has about a third the gdp of chengdu ($330b), which is about the size of Toronto ($473b). Even if you adjust for PPP chengdu ($707b), so similar to the population its a bit less then twice.
Chengdu is using its production capacity to build metros while Toronto is not. If Toronto chose to devote the same percent of there resources that chengdu has towards its public transit it could build a similar map to the above.
Not pointless. All of the western world has been in regressive austerity mode of stagnation while Asia is booming because outsourcing is treason that enabled corrupt mismanagement of banking, education, healthcare, labor, supply chains, and housing. The cost of living has been the casualty. The cost of living has crushed birthrates and made workers permanently uncompetitive. The quality of life in China is far better by comparison. Fools try to propagandize rural poverty in China, but that same rural and urban poverty exists and is far worse in North America. The USA has 700,000 feral humans sent back to live in the wild of urban hell as a caste of animals. China is the benchmark of what could have been. It has its issues like everywhere, but take off the mask of propaganda nonsense and just look at people that get invited to a major city for business and post about it. Be unbiased and unprejudiced and you will clearly see the average person there has a far better quality of life.
.... You think that living in China, under the CCP, somehow provides a better quality of life than living in North America?
You lost me chief.
Their infrastructure might put ours to shame, and I'm not going to say that everyone lives in poverty there, there's billions of people in China; but when it comes to general happiness and quality of life? Nah. I don't believe you, and I don't agree with that assessment/opinion.
I still prefer to live in a (however flawed) democracy. So, not the USA, not China.