Yet, the BC part of Canada still wants to have short trains, narrow bridges & stumpy buildings, when compared to what Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane & Perth allow. Vancouver & BC have been under a multigenerational restrictive agenda. AKA, a slow growth initiative, which has no effect on Calgary & Seattle. Thus, anyone can see the much larger urban scale of those & many other cities are allowed to be.
https://climateinstitute.ca/impacts-building-infrastructure-yesterday-s-climate Any modern country needs a good network of roads, but an equally good network of passenger & freight trains.
Of course Canada has been very slow to create a high-speed intercity train system.
https://climateinstitute.ca/news/albertas-renewable-energy-restrictions-will-throttle-a-booming-industry-and-drive-away-investment The transition from oil & gas should have been done over a few generations, instead of trying to push it though in under a few decades.
https://climateinstitute.ca/clean-growth/
23 Switzerland's can fit into BC, yet BC still doesn't have the population of one Ch.
