Why is Toronto badly planned

Подписаться 1,7 тыс.

Просмотров 3,4 тыс.

50% 1

Please watch: "Why Canada FAILS At Sports"
• Why Canada FAILS At Sp... -~-
Join the Membership to get access to exclusive perks and early access:
/ @geonerd.
Did you enjoy this video? Make sure you subscribe: / @geonerd.
Toronto’s EXPANSIVE Map, Explained
Picture Toronto during World War II - bustling with activity, but facing new challenges as the city expanded. While war raged on, another kind of planning was brewing. You see, even before the war, Toronto had its eye on its surrounding areas. They knew they were connected, and they wanted a better way to manage it all.
Back in the 1920s, as the city grew and stretched its boundaries, folks started talking about setting up a way to handle this growth. But it wasn't until the war years that things really kicked into gear. The chaos of wartime made everyone realize they needed a plan. So, regional planning became the name of the game.
But why? Well, it was partly because Toronto had been pondering this for years, and partly because everyone felt the urgency of the war. They knew they had to figure out how to make things work better, not just for now, but for the future too. And so, in the midst of turmoil, regional planning took root, shaping the path forward for Toronto and its surrounding areas.
#canada #history

Опубликовано:

13 сен 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 18

@GeoNerd. 6 месяцев назад

Enjoyed the video? You better subscribe!! We are so close to hitting 1,000 subscribers! Let me know what other video you'd like to see next!

@strawberry7799a 6 месяцев назад

Great historical explanation of planning in Toronto. An issue we saw in the 50s is even worse now in the 20s. Lack of regional planning bodies and reg govt with actual power. Toronto has spilled far beyond the old Metro borders, but our planning system hasn’t followed that. The metropolitan area is divided into several cities and regions each with their own plans. The province has abandoned their role as regional planner and this has lead to a shitshow. There is little to no coordination on where to build housing, transit, social services, and commerce. Artifical municipal boundaries have created a mess of bureaucracy and lack of coordination. Half-measures like Metrolinx have been attempted, but with little success. We need a regional government for Toronto with the power to plan and build for growth, infrastructure, transit, and homes.

@GeoNerd. 6 месяцев назад

I totally agree, the whole Golden Horseshoe needs to be better connected as from what I’ve heard and experienced , it’s A LOT of commuters and while Toronto now is investing more in transit there is still a lot of work to be done… ( hopefully a HSR system from Toronto- Montreal will be developed)

@Protectyourkin 6 месяцев назад

My great grandfather would not have fought and died fighting germans for what this country has become. Being denied information sucks

@wesbrown738 6 месяцев назад

Felt like this video could've been a lot longer and went through different time periods and decisions up to issues being faced today

@GeoNerd. 6 месяцев назад

100% there is A LOT of history when it came to Toronto’s urban planning, I tried taking the period where the most happened, to make the message clear that since this original urban planning boom in the 50-70’s not much work has been done … our view of what a city should be has changed but on the street not much has changed! I hope you still were able to enjoy the video! 🙏

@VAPOURIZE100 6 месяцев назад

Yeah a great example of this is stagnant subway stations system.. in other cities systems as old as the damn TTC would have more than a dozen underground lines and here we only have 3 lines!?

@wesbrown738 6 месяцев назад

And the third line is pretty irrelevant it's really just 2 lines

@KardiFan2000 6 месяцев назад

To be fair, we will be getting 2 lines (relatively) soon, and the Ontario Line should be operational by 2030, which would give the city 6 lines. Most of the expansion plans were actually proposed in the 80s and 90s, but were cancelled due to lack of funding and political squabbling.

@soso-zz9qf 6 месяцев назад

@KardiFan2000 calling finch west and the crosstown subways is part of the problem. Finch west is a streetcar/tram (perfectly acceptable for the corridor) and crosstown is an abomination of underground subway and at grade streetcar. Absolutley ridiculous considering the current and planned density and the network benifits of a proper heavy rail subway along eglinton. Anyways at least the ontario line is quite good and go rer is looking good too. Hopefully we get the sheppard extension this century as well.

@KardiFan2000 6 месяцев назад

@@soso-zz9qf Fair points, although I didn't call Line 5 and 6 subways, I called them "lines".

@soso-zz9qf 6 месяцев назад

@@KardiFan2000 OP was talking about the stagnant subway system. We've had expansions like Finch West multiple times: St. Claire; Harbourfront; Lakeshore West (before it got nuked); that one pathetic part of King St.; and ofc Spadina. Unfortunatley due to bad stop spacing and no real transit signal priority those "lrts" are often stuck in traffic. I am holding out hope Finch West is gonna b better tho, it has better stop spacing and better grade seperation imo.

@MacDiggity 6 месяцев назад

When I lived in Leaside I just took the Bayview extension downtown. 20 minute commute most days. I would suggest a better mic as some of the narration is a little hard to understand.

@GeoNerd. 6 месяцев назад

Trying to find the best settings for the mic still!

@benmcreynolds8581 6 месяцев назад

I saw coverage on the potential of Lithium extraction at the salton sea region. (It made me think) I don't get why it seems to be so hard for this country to realize that If something huge is going to present itself in a region, then it should BENEFIT the entire region. We cannot keep doing this "oh it'll bring "x" amount of jobs" *but in reality time & time again we see something greatly benefit a very small select few. While the rest of the region around it completely suffers & is on its own. This country is more than capable of doing away with this soulless late stage capitalistic approach to EVERYTHING! Our state and federal government is more than capable of finding intelligent ways to improve regions across this country that are suffering greatly. Come on. This is not an impossible issue to overcome. Our government cannot keep doing nothing and thinking anything will get better or fix itself.. It's clear a lot of things are suffering around the country right now and they got to address it and stop acting like it's something they don't have to talk about and figure out new ways to improve this country. These people in our government say they supposedly care about this country and it's people? Stop and look around tho (all they care about is, as long as they are doing good, financially benefitting from their government positions, if their stocks or investments are looking good? etc.) But if everything else in society is falling apart around them.. They don't seem to care at all. They gotta change that if they want the citizens of this country to respect them At All. They also need to change if they want this country to stay amazing at all. Instead of ignoring that so many aspects that made these places great are falling apart all around us..