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Originally Posted by Soundy
Yes, great idea.
Let's do the math (setting aside for the moment that North America has really only seen substantial population growth for the last 300 or so years, vs. a few thousand years for Europe):
Land area of Europe: 10,180,000 kmē
Population of Europe: 739,165,030 (2011)
Population density of Europe: 72.6 people per square kilometer.
Land area of Canada: 9,985,000 kmē
Population of Canada: 34,482,779 (2011)
Population density of Canada: 0.3 people per square kilometer.
You want European density, you need to be ready to invite in half the population of China... or get REALLY fuckin' busy makin' babies.
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Thanks Wikipedia
I agree, so why are we bothering with all this crap transit bs, why not build highways, 4 lanes each way, from west van through north van to Burnaby, no. 1, but also, 4 lanes each way interrupted from Burnaby to downtown, downtown to the ferries - none of this 2 lane tunnel, 2 lane bridges, all the bottlenecks - we can spread so much further if we built the infrastructure
This lack of planning will fuck over greater vancouver a growth - little city with a little city mentality, little minded peopl