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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
The city is still sitting on a billion dollar rainy day fund. I'm sure a modest portion of that, along with provincial and federal funding could alleviate some of the issues. I believe the issue of sprawl is wildly overblown. We have nothing but land around us. The higher the density the worse the traffic, especially if people want to maintain our car based lifestyle. If the city used some foresight and built for projected population increases we might actually keep up.
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And after we've blown our contingency fund, demanded more tax dollars from our higher levels of government (which they will still have to get from us), and have a city that is still expanding, what then? And if we're having trouble funding infrastructure for areas that haven't existed long enough to have paid any sizeable amount of taxes, how are we supposed to implement your traffic solution, which is to build infracture for growth before it happens? Density does create traffic, but our current growth patterns produce even more traffic. Just think about how many parking spaces a family in a Victoria Park condo has, compared to a family in Cranston.