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[Not Just Bikes] - This Small-Town LRT is so Good it Made me Angry (i.ytimg.com)
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Small town: Kitchener-Waterloo LRT

[Not Just Bikes] - This Small-Town LRT is so Good it Made me Angry

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[–] 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

600,000 people is small town? Lol

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  • [+] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Actual small towns in Ontario have populations of no more than 5000. 50000 is a small city. Relative to its surroundings, Kitchener-Waterloo is a medium-large-sized city. Very few Canadian cities reach the million mark (it used to be only Toronto, but I'm pretty sure Vancouver is there now too, and maybe one or two others).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    For those who are wondering:

    • Toronto at 2,794,356
    • Montreal at 1,1762,949
    • Calgary at 1,306,784
    • Ottawa at 1,017,449
    • Edmonton at 1,010,889

    The next two closest are

    • Winnipeg at 749,607
    • Mississauga at 717,961

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_municipalities_in_Canada_by_population'

    Vancouver only has 662,248 however the Greater Vancouver Area has 2.6 million people (that area would include Surrey, Richmond, Burnady, etc). Just like how the Greater Toronto Area has Oshawa, Mississauga, Brampton included.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    600k is not a small town in comparison to a 7 million pop capital. I get that your argument is essentially the words are meaningless because theres no strict population density, but by that logic I could call Toronto a small town because its on the same continent as New York.

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    [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    And it opened shortly after I moved away. I'm fairly optimistic at least a few of the new Kelowna city councillors watch his channel.

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    [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    We have expanded skytrain reach being built in metro Vancouver, and those serviced areas are doing buslanes and bike lane additions also. Just hoping the new BC Conservative government doesn't start killing things.

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    [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    FYI, the Invidious link is bad.

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    • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    LRT?

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    • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    The same guy who made a warm-weather train for Vancouver went to Ottawa...and made a warm-weather train, to well-observed effect.

    I'm glad his next project - he was bound for K/W next - seems to have come out better.

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