Why do some people think that Toronto is The Next New York?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eJcCpoXx50 

Its really more like becoming another Chicago. They are the 2 biggest cities on the Great Lakes.

How much will Vancouver change by 2036?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJtotvMq2ls 

The Lion+Bridge will likely still not have an express bus and LRT tunnel near it. The+Iron+Bridge still might not have a proper BRT and LRT bridge next to it. The OSB and the KSB will likely not have a bus and bike bridge built beside them. There will still likely be no new Fraser Street Bridge for bikes and buses. No Boundary Road bridges to provide a direct link between the North Shore and Richmond for buses, trucks and bikes.

While the first 2 Skytrain lines will have 5 car trains, the stunted YVR-Canada Line will only have 2.5 car trains. Vancouver still might not permit any office tower to have a 40th floor, but might allow some residential towers to be on a Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane & Toronto scale. 

However, BIG city thinking and planning in Vancouver has always been so difficult. Boston, SF and the City of Paris are ridiculously small cities like Vancouver with all 3 having a land area of less than 50 sq. mi. or 129.5 sq. km. Yet, Boston, SF and especially the City of Paris, have all been able to fit so much more into the same general space. That's because they aren't bound by anything like the inept and extreme Vancouver type restrictions. 

CN Tower celebrates 50 years of being a skyline icon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujWLEBhbdt8 

If it were possible today, the KEEP VANCOUVER SMALL AND BACKWARDS people would still not permit any building to be a 3rd of the height of the CN_Tower. (CNT) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower#Height_comparisons

The Harbour_Centre opened just over a year after the CNT, and is just under a 3rd of its height. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_Centre#Height

https://www.cntower.ca/

Unfortunately, The Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) was able to ensure that the Canada_Line Stations aren't even quite a 3rd of the length of the 152.5 m Montreal Metro stations. 

Even the North-Shore mountains aren't allowed to be as tall as the mountains north of L.A. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Shore_(Greater_Vancouver) 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/LA_San_Gabriel_Mountains.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Gabriel_Mountains#Gallery 

Whether you are from Toronto or Chicago, LA or SF, Melbourne or Sydney, you might be shocked as to seeing how scaled down or watered down Vancouver is. Yet, the City of Paris, despite having a slightly smaller land area than Vancouver, can fit so much more inside. Boston and SF are only slightly larger in area than the City of Vancouver, yet they can also fit in so much more. 

Toronto Line 2 Bloor–Danforth

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UksCq92B4HA 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_2_Bloor-Danforth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Toronto_subway_stations

Why aren't there similarly sized cities on the Canadian side of the Detroit area or American side of the Toronto area?

 https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/1tz5yuw/why_arent_there_similarly_sized_cities_on_the/

The Unusual transportation approaches used in Vancouver

 https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/history/5-of-a-kind-unusual-modes-of-transportation-used-or-nearly-used-in-vancouver-12388220 

Vancouver is such an unusual and backwards city with its inefficient and congestive approach towards transportation infrastructure.

Getting rid of the streetcars and interurban trams was utterly foolish! Fortunately, such MADNE$$ wasn't adopted in Melbourne, SF, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans. 

Just because a no freeways mandate was chosen for Vancouver, the streets should have been kept wide enough for busses as well as other vehicles. 

https://movementyvr.ca/the-case-of-vancouvers-nine-missing-bus-lanes

Despite most of the Vancouver bridges being too narrow, some bridge lanes were removed, because the city wasn't interested in building parallel bike bridges. 

Since most of the bridges are so narrow, there isn't enough room for proper express bus lanes. Of course the city isn't interested in building parallel bus bridges next to the narrow bridges. 

Since Vancouver is supposed to be a major, properly functioning city in Western Canada, the city should have pressed the designers of the first 2 Skytrain lines to make sure that all of the 80 m stations could gradually be extended to 152.5 m, the same as the 500 foot long Montreal Metro stations and trains.

Unlike the first 2 Skytrain lines, the Canada Line was only designed to ultimately have 50 m stations and trains. A 2 billion dollar line to YVR could have been designed in such a way that would have allowed it to look and function like a proper big-city passenger train. 

A commuter train to the North Shore keeps taking a long time to be finalized.

https://northshoreconnects.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BIRT-Benefits-Assessment_Final.pdf

Think small and build backwards, or not at all. 

Vancouver ranked best World Cup host city by Sports Illustrated, Toronto No. 3

The magazine cited Vancouver’s transit, walkability and mild summer weather in ranking it first https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/soccer-world-cup-city-rankings-9.7226811

Racism is a risk when Vancouver and Toronto hosts the World Cup

https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/world-cup-2026-raises-human-rights-concerns-in-canadian-host-cities 

https://football.dhgate.com/lifestyle/world-cup-guide-reporting-racism-at-games-what-you-need-to-know-and-do/

 https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-sports/racism-is-a-risk-when-vancouver-hosts-world-cup-but-measures-exist-bc-ag-sharma-12361474 So, this is basically the same article repeated. 

https://www.britannica.com/place/British-Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Rivalry_with_other_European_empires

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/01/racism-risk-vancouver-hosts-world-cup-measures-exist-ag-sharma/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Expansion_and_colonial_conflict_(1707%E2%80%931783)

Despite its overall area, Canada has less than 1% of the worlds population. A global population that is mostly nonwhite. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Consolidation_and_global_dominance_(1783%E2%80%931815)

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/world-cup/article/racism-is-a-risk-when-vancouver-hosts-world-cup-but-measures-exist-bc-ag-sharma/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Britain's_imperial_century_(1815%E2%80%931914)

For its first century, Canada was supposed to be primarily for people from Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Changing_status_of_the_white_colonies 

That was the British Colonial Agenda, but eventually the British_Empire had to acknowledge that most of the worlds population is nonwhite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#Decolonisation_and_decline_(1945%E2%80%931997)

There are strong arguments that Canada should be able to gradually contain a little more of the worlds population. Since a lot of the worlds population is from warmer areas, a lot of people might not like the Canadian Winter season. SW BC just happens to be the most mild part of Canada during the winter. The Lower_Mainland of BC and SE Vancouver_Island have been very reluctant to think big and build on a grand scale. 

The Lions+Gate+Bridge and the Johnson+Street+Bridge are both classic 3 lane BC bottleneck-chokepoints. They are both fine examples of not wanting to build for a growing population on a world that is composed mostly of nonwhite people.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/02/news/racism-risk-when-vancouver-hosts-world-cup-measures-exist-says-bc-ag-sharma 

Toronto and Southern Ontario just never had the same level of small scale thinking as in SW BC. In fact, it the backwards BC approach to things just never caught on in Toronto, Melbourne and SF. They never got rid of their streetcars and trams like Vancouver and Victoria did.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/lzvgg7/the_british_empire_at_its_territorial_peak_oc/ 

As Canada started to become more multicultural in the 1960s and 70s, predominantly White city councils in BC kept imposing a small-scale approach to things. 

Will some people start to say that by keeping most of the world out of Canada is good for the environment? There are already some people that would like to use nonwhites as being too much of a carbon footprint and that Canada should never have 1% of the worlds population. This would be a very clever and sinister way to perpetuate the KEEP THEM OUT agenda. 

The days of Canada being officially under a British Colonial, White authority management power structure are long gone. As of 2026, Canada has yet to have half of 1% of the worlds population. 

TransLink to run temporary Downtown Vancouver circular bus route during FIFA World Cup

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-no-1-downtown-vancouver-south-circulator-bus-route-fifa-world-cup 

Makes sense since the city never planned for a downtown train loop like Chicago, Toronto and other proper cities did generations ago. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Circle Stdney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Loop#Metro_Tunnel Melbourne  

There should be a permanent downtown bus loop or circle. It could run along Robson to Burrard, then along Davie to Denman and then back to Robson. Every 3-5 minutes during the day and every 5-10 minutes at night. Unfortunately, that would go against the backwards planning mentality of provincial Vancouver.

Toronto - Canada’s World-Class City

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHVS8_Bi7mc 

Toronto is approaching a Chicago level of scale. However, Toronto has yet to have its first 100 story office tower. The BMO tower has 72 floors. Provincial Vancouver still won't permit any 40 story office towers. While the GTA is easily at 7 million, the Chicagoland Area is at least up to 10 million. 

The GTA and Greater Montreal, combined with Chicagoland still doesn't quite match the Greater NYC Area, AKA: The Tristate Metropolitan Area of over 23 million people.

Hwy. 400 in Toronto

 https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2026/05/23/southbound-hwy-400-in-toronto-almost-completely-blocked-following-to-multi-vehicle-collision/

A weekend washout for the GTA

 https://www.cp24.com/video/2026/05/23/a-weekend-washout-for-the-gta-its-going-to-be-an-all-day-affair-climatologist-on-weather-update/ 

No matter how much rain in TO, there is always more of it in Vancouver. It shouldn't be fall in May. However, when Toronto finally gets summer, its summer for more than just a few months. Unfortunately, summer in Vancouver always seems so short, just like its short trains and short buildings. Even shorter-swimming-pools. One hopes that from June 1st to September 1st, Vancouver will have constant 25-30C days. Unfortunately, the dam rain sometimes kicks in to reduce the number of sunny summer days. Then by 2nd week of September, summer is fading & you're lucky to have spring like days. 

The Gardiner Expressway

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gardiner-expressway-construction-time-halved-1.7615052 

https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/04/gardiner-expressway-construction-time-lapse-toronto/

https://www.gftinc.com/project/gardiner-expressway-section-5-detailed-design/

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/road-maintenance/bridges-and-expressways/expressways/gardiner-expressway/gardiner-expressway-rehabilitation-strategy/

https://www.grascan.com/projects/new-ramp-construction/

https://undergardinerprp.ca/  https://thebentway.ca/

https://torontolife.com/city/admire-gardiner-expressway-not-tear/

Traffic Bottlenecks and Chokepoints

 https://www.tomtom.com/traffic-index/ranking 

https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/1jzsjt2/toronto_is_no_longer_one_the_world_most_congested/

https://www.detrack.com/blog/cities-with-the-worst-traffic/ 

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/cities-with-the-worst-traffic.html

https://landline.media/bottleneck-hell-study-examines-costly-traffic-issue/

https://truckingresearch.org/2026/02/top-100-truck-bottlenecks-2026 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_congestion 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_congestion#Countermeasures

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow claps back at mean and racist DMs

 https://www.blogto.com/city/2026/05/toronto-mayor-olivia-mean-dms/

Total government costs of FIFA World Cup in Vancouver and Toronto could reach over $1 billion

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/fifa-world-cup-vancouver-toronto-canada-pbo-cost-estimate

Mississauga, Ontario

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30914mndSjw 

One would expect that Vancouver imposed height limits to never have anything as tall as in Toronto. However, Vancouver wont permit 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=306 m 

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=306&status=15 m

U.S. Bank Tower in L.A.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bank_Tower_(Los_Angeles)

 https://www.reddit.com/r/skyscrapers/comments/1t25cdo/us_bank_tower_la 

There was a time when no building in Vancouver was allowed to be as tall as the LA City Hall, or the old CIBC in Toronto, or the LC+Smith+Tower+in+Seattle. Today, those are all stumps when compared to the much taller towers.

Toronto City Council Approves the Planned Eglinton East LRT Extension through Scarborough

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvee4ZwaMmg

Toronto PATH

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOgoF6ljTCU