https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-green-party-free-public-transit-gas-prices
A good idea, but the inept transit planning never allowed a provision for 8 to 10 car trains, as demand increases.
Unfortunately, the Canada_Line was only built to have 50m stations when the Montreal Metro has 152.5m stations.
The first 2 SkyTrain_Lines were barely built to just over half the length of a 500 foot long Montreal Metro station. Considering how narrow most of the streets & highways are in BC, one would think that the train stations would be built to eventually be as long as a 500 foot long TTC Subway platform. However, BC is all about congestive planning.
Why would a multi generational power structure want to properly invest in big city scale infrastructure, when their agenda is to KEEP+THEM+OUT? Or, at least dramatically reduce the influx of people. Their logic is that mountainous BC is already too crowded with only 5.2 million people. Yet, mountainous Switzerland with 8.5 million people, still isn't all bricks, steel & concrete.
Indeed, Switzerland can fit into the BC part of Canada 23.62 times. That means even if BC had 200 million people, it would still have no more than the population density of Switzerland. This is merely to point out how much growth potential there is for BC & Canada, overall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland#Geography
"It is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Alps and the Jura, spanning a total area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi) and land area of 39,997 km2 (15,443 sq mi). Although the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8.5 million is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities and economic centres are..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland
"British Columbia's land area is 944,735 square kilometres (364,800 sq mi)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia#Geography
"It borders the Canadian province of Alberta to the east and the Canadian territories of Yukon and the Northwest Territories to the north. With an estimated population of 5.2 million as of 2021, it is Canada's third-most populous province." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia
Canada has yet to even contain half of 1 percent of the worlds population. Of course most of the worlds population is of non European heritage. During colonial times, White immigration was the name of the game, with only a small portion of non whites to immigrate to Canada.
Since most of the world is non white, Canada just happens to maintain such a small population, in-spite of being the 2nd largest national area on the planet. So as long as no one puts up a bunch of KEEP THEM OUT signs, people don't seem to notice what's going on.
During tough economic times, immigrants were seen as taking up limited jobs by some Canadians. Well, if wealthier immigrants were allowed in during tough economic times, that argument doesn't hold up. However, then there might be some jealousy, so its as if something else had to be done to continually reduce immigration.
Canada might use the environment as an excuse to KEEP PEOPLE OUT. This is diabolically ingenious, because it can condition the population into thinking a certain way. KEEP THE FOREIGNERS OUT, BECAUSE IT'S GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. Unless enough people can ever see through this B$, Canada will be able to maintain the small population colonial agenda.
Keeping a lot of people out of Canada just because they are non white does indeed seem like a colonial mentality throwback. So when the world reaches 8 billion, Canada won't even have 80 million people, not even 40 million.
Parts of BC are the most mild in Canada during the winter. Yet, BC continues to have limited infrastructure investment, as if to create more congestion.
https://bcblackhistory.ca/learning-centre/anti-racism-strategies
In spite of being much colder during the winter, Ontario, Quebec & Alberta are all able to have taller & grander cities than what is allowed in BC. When more people in Canada & from around the world want to choose BC for the mild winters, the infrastructure isn't allowed to keep up.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8802898/bc-government-systemic-racism-announcement
Long time BC residents become conditioned to accept small scale infrastructure. Then when they see "foreigners" moving in & putting a strain on the small scale infrastructure, they can easily be blamed.
https://vpfo.ubc.ca/2021/03/systemic-racism-what-it-looks-like-in-canada-and-how-to-fight-it
Yet, it is the reluctance of BC & its municipalities to properly plan for big city growth.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-hate-crime-statistics-1.6388519
Even if someday BC had half a dozen major urban areas, most of BC would still be mountainous wilderness.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2022001/article/00005-eng.htm
Asia is the most populated part of the planet & part of Canada reaches the Pacific_Rim. How could BC be so ignorant of this? Yet, Vancouver ended up being the Asian hate capital of Canada.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-vancouver-canada-asian-hate-crimes
So many other countries, states, provinces & cities properly plan for large scale infrastructure to handle the growth. Unfortunately, Vancouver, Victoria & Kelowna are still part of the KEEP BC SMALL AND BACKWARDS agenda.
