Message from @Beemann
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Or did you mean Florida Disney?
Florida
Ah
The good one
I hear it's getting pricey there too
They were looking at charging for parking at their hotels
Traffic is a huge problem. Most people in cities could get by with a really small car or moped. They could rent or do car sharing to go out of town.
The issue here is that people get bottlenecked
If there were more bridges/tunnels this wouldn't be an issue
Bridges and tunnels are pretty expensive.
They are, but if you're going to have almost all the infrastructure on one side of the river, and one of the largest cities in the area on the other side 🤷
What city?
Couldn’t more trains fix this too?
I'm in BC, infrastructure improvements typically go to Vancouver/Burnaby, Surrey is huge and on the other side of the river
Ok. Interesting
They're considering putting in "light rail" for Surrey/Langley/etc
Surrey has like 2 stops on the whole line and they're next to each other
In a gentrified area that used to be sketchy AF
They were talking about designing a railroad that ran from East Orlando to Tampa but the city raised objections because Disney was going to be funding it and the city wouldn't be making any money off of it. It would be a net loss
Public transportation is an interesting problem. More stops mean more time to travel. Its difficult to get it just right.
Well the issue is that if you live in Guildford, Langley, etc, you basically gotta drive if you work in Vancouver/Burnaby/Coquitlam
Which means everyone has to live in the already saturated areas
Or near enough to them that they can bus in
They're trying to put apartments in out in White Rock where there's literally only two roads connecting it to the rest of the Lower Mainland and they already have bad traffic
That’s interesting. City planning seems very difficult to me. Im a civil engineer (work in wastewater treatment). It’s fascinating to see how things develop over time.
Yeah it's just quite stratified here. If Lauren didn't have way more interesting stuff to talk about, she'd still basically have free content talking about how weird the GVRD is
She's from out this way, and her earlier vids were about going to school here and such
Gvrd? The public transportation system?
Greater Vancouver Regional District
Just the general area
Oh. Ok.
I live in Alabama.
It’s nice and not super crowded.
Yeah we're getting spillage out into the countryside, which is pissing off people who live out there
Tale as old as time. A bunch of ritzy city elitists want to expand and crush the poor land owners.
Kelowna used to be quiet, now they have mentally ill homeless people, more crime, housing costs shot up
Lillooet wants all the hipsters gone
Well, I’m sure that everyone is a little pissed that urban sprawl happens.
The biggest case to be concerned about overpopulation is dealing with the big city brats wanting to spread about
It's extra fucked though because like, Lillooet is about a 4 hour drive from Vancouver and previously had much less in the way of "conveniences". It's hard enough getting support for Surrey
So like how long til all these other places are "full" and have the same issues, but little/no support
Usually a generation or 2
Hell, Chilliwack just gets Vancouver's smog every year. Blows into the valley lol