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  • They did talk a little about zoning amd density. Though without a way for people or goods to get around there is no economy.

    Street car suburbs is a coined term that is basically at its heart a transit oriented community. Though street car suburbs require the expressed knowledge that density is needed.

    The video simply shows that these types of communities already exist and a perfect example is that Toronto already has them.

    Though many people, even the ones that live in these areas are not even aware of the distinction, but that might not necessarily be a bad thing? To them it feels like any other suburb, but has three times the density of what’s legally allowed to be built with current zoning laws.


  • I agree with you, we need to add density to our existing suburbs not continue the sprawl.

    The video I linked to shows how this is possible, and how Toronto street car suburbs already have the same comparable density to Europe cities like Amsterdam. Or three times the density of what’s built now.

    Transforming a typical single family home “american suburb” into a street car suburb will be challenging for sure.

    The first step is having people realize there is more then two types of locations to live. It’s not just a choice between “the city” and “the suburbs” or a single family home and a condo.

    There are plenty of different other styles of communities. Toronto even has a fully car free residential neighborhood (the only one in North America) located on center island. Completely pedestrian oriented.










  • Just a FYI, Canadian news agencies wanted social platforms like Facebook to pay for linking to their news articles.

    The argument from Canadian news agencies was that by social platforms sharing links on their social platforms, social platforms were directly increasing their sites user traffic and benefiting with increased ad revenue. News agencies argued this decreased their own ad revenue by decrease site traffic.

    Most people know a link directs a individual to the original site of the content. Since Facebook and other social sites did not want to pay a link fee they simply had chosen to remove links to Canadian news sites (as requested)

    By removing links to these sites on social platforms like Facebook, news agencies decreased their surface area of exposure. Thus news agencies decreased the amount of individuals being directed to their site and news articles.

    Simply put, Canadian news agencies wanted their cake and eat it too.

    Now search engine like Google search for example were exempt from this mandate because they only link to the article or external site. The irony in this is real.

    Obviously sites like Facebook “condensing a news article automatically” and presenting it on their own site, without a user needing to navigate away from Facebook as a example is a different issue and a valid point.

    Though please be aware, generally when a link shows up on Facebook and gets formatted with a picture and a paragraph underneath it. This feature is controlled directly by the external sites integration with Facebook or social platform, and they can choose how much of the link is condensed or shown.

    Also please note, some of the “Canadian news agencies” that were lobbying for this to pass are actually USA owned, and masquerading as Canadian.