IMO Toronto's system is not so great, especially for a city its size. A city that size (especially one with as much congestion!) should have a comprehensive subway system (see Barcelona for a great example), not a measly 2.5 lines.
Sure, downtown the transit is pretty good, but move outside of that, and things aren't all there.
I love streetcars, but since there are too many cars on the road, trying to get around downtown is a joke. That said I take the King which is known for being one of the worst I think. It's faster for me to walk a lot of the time.
Yeah, streetcars in such a congested city only really work when they have their own rights-of-way. Is the Spadina streetcar done yet?
I hope we can do better than NYC and Paris for public transportation. Paris's are smelly. NYC haven't been updated in forever.
I'm not trying to be negative, only pointing out there's better. On my short list I'd pick Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Singapore, HK (maybe), even London's is pretty nice compared to Paris. It's clean (at least in my limited experience) and at least for convenience Berlin's is pretty amazing.
If we build our city like a cruise ship, we can choose our climate.
bikes in summer, cross country skis in winter
what do you do with the young kids in the winter?
Re:New Cities
by jessaustin on Monday June 27, 2016 @07:21PM
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Catapults and trapeze nets. Actually that would be pretty sweet in the summer too.
Paris has a great subway system that is very clean, and their roads are very walk able.
Montreal and Toronto have great systems.
I think a cities climate is always important to consider. If you want to have bike paths, but you get a ton of snow in the winter, how do you deal with that? At my university up in Rochester NY we had tunnels under ground connecting the buildings. This helped a lot with the brutal winters.