https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-federal-budget-eastern-canada-bc-ferries-funding-criticism
Perhaps some day Canada will start to be planned like a big country. In some ways Australia is already there.
Canada doesn't even have 1% of the worlds population. It has yet to even accommodate half a percent of the human population, despite its size.
In smaller, but warmer Australia, Sydney and Melbourne were the 2 major cities in Australia for a long time. Then Perth was allowed to have a wider bridge and taller buildings than what restrictive Vancouver allows. Even the trains are longer in Perth, just like in Seattle.
Brisbane and the Gold Coast were allowed to have buildings that would even be impressive by Melbourne and Sydney standards. The Sir_Leo_Hielscher_Bridges provide a 12 lane crossing with easy access to the airport and the seaport. In contrast, provincial Vancouver only has 4 lane bridges to the airport. Greater Vancouver has been stuck with a 4 lane bottleneck-chokepoint tunnel to the Delta Seaport and Tsawwassen ferry terminal. Of course there is no train connection between the ferry terminal and YVR.
For the longest time, Canada only had 2 major cities. First, it was Montreal in the 1960s, then Toronto really took off by the 1970s.
Halifax should have been a big bustling city on the scale of Montreal or Boston by now.
Vancouver still has underground train stations that are shorter than the underground stations in Edmonton and Seattle.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/paint-oneself-into-a-corner That's the Vancouver, Greater Vancouver and backwards BC approach to things. The VMV and the BCMV.
