This is why my position on the greenbelt is “open it up to any construction but you have to pay to service that construction with frequent rail-based rapid transit instead of cars”. Which means green ultra-high-density. Cut and cover some subways out of Aldershot GO and build an new Barcelona around them. Use every part of the Buffalo.
Green belt is where we have heavy rail transit infrastructure and no existing neighbours to NIMBY about shadows Character Of The Neighborhood. Go far outside of the GTHA and you’re unhooked from the GO system. Do infill and you have to deal with moronic city councils and neighborhood groups and planner BS like in TFA. Green belt is where you can pick a few dozen square KM of land, buy out the few farmers, and build Hyperdrive City. with a GO train to Toronto.
I’m all for infill, I’m just politically realistic that the voters are too dumb to save the planet, and Hyperdrive City is the next-best-thing.
This is why my position on the greenbelt is “open it up to any construction but you have to pay to service that construction with frequent rail-based rapid transit instead of cars”. Which means green ultra-high-density. Cut and cover some subways out of Aldershot GO and build an new Barcelona around them. Use every part of the Buffalo.
You can do that everywhere, it doesn’t have to be the green belt
Green belt is where we have heavy rail transit infrastructure and no existing neighbours to NIMBY about shadows Character Of The Neighborhood. Go far outside of the GTHA and you’re unhooked from the GO system. Do infill and you have to deal with moronic city councils and neighborhood groups and planner BS like in TFA. Green belt is where you can pick a few dozen square KM of land, buy out the few farmers, and build Hyperdrive City. with a GO train to Toronto.
I’m all for infill, I’m just politically realistic that the voters are too dumb to save the planet, and Hyperdrive City is the next-best-thing.