Why is that woman in the clip so worried about an additional 15000 people? Did she ever consider that many of those people actually walk to work? With a new era of increased density, and employers setting up their headquarters in the core, we are going to see a new trend, one where no one drives or takes the TTC, but walks to work. Ask anyone who lives in other high density areas, like Manhattan. According to my friends who live there, infrastructure is secondary, as everyone walks to where they need to go. The idea of driving isn't even a consideration, and rightly so, it's the next step of increasing our core density. Decades ago, most had to commute downtown, but with tens of thousands of condos being built each year right in the core, that has become, or, will become, a thing of the past for many. There will always be those living in the burbs who need to commute, but with upgrades to our transit, and the addition of the downtown relief line, I think we can handle it. This is all merely growing pains, and in a city experiencing such an unprecedented surge in density, we have reached the point of no return. We are now becoming a city where hundreds of thousands live in the core, and build their entire life round that. Transportation infrastructure will become a mute point, social infrastructure, however, is something that must be addressed if we actually want to maintain a healthy and prosperous downtown core. There is still plenty of room for growth, and unless Armageddon actually happens, we will continue to see a Toronto that reaches for the sky, it's inevitable, so either adapt, or move, with the momentum that we're rolling along, I just can't see it stop any time soon. (Wa do you guys think?)
