The main problem is the Toronto subway now serves a dramatically bigger area, but is very concentrated to a narrow region. They really need far more extensive LRT additions to every major borough (in my inexpert opinion). The subway is pretty good… if you never leave the bubble.
One day…
Once Line 5 is done, we will have transit across the middle of the city into Missisauga and the airport on the west to Scarborough. Line 6 extends into Etobicoke. The Ontario line will cross diagonally from the CNE to Don Mills.
I’m not convinced any of these projects will open soon.
Also is it most of America apartments 1 to 5 stories mostly made out of wood? Where Canada mid rise and high rise is made out of large concrete with fire safety in mind? The Canadian government may have ban those low rise apartments because they are cheaply made.
If so the cost for investors and developers to make apartment out of large concrete is very costly so it is cheaper to build high rise apartments because all those people in the apartment pay for the construction cost?
Also, since “Most people in Canada can’t afford a car”, according to something I just read on the internet, you’ll be really safe driving here because there are hardly any cars on the roads. Just watch out for all the homeless folks in the woods.
Quick question for you:
Do you live in Canada? Have you ever spent any significant amount of time in Canada?
I know what southern Ontario cities look like compared to sun belt cities in the US.
The dynamics of culture and transit riders is basing on what I read.
I use to spend time on skyscraperpage looking at cities and like more urban cities like south east Asia, UK London or New York, Philly as model than say Toronto.
Thank you for this statement.
I wonder if you could answer the questions posed - a simple yes or no will work:
Do you live in Canada? Have you ever spent any significant amount of time in Canada?
I’m also curious about where you got this information. I presume you “read it” somewhere. Care to offer a cite?
You mean like stabbings and pushing on train tracks in the Toronto transit subways. Yep I live in the same province as Toronto and can verify it happens. Toronto is just as bad as New York City.
Again, this is not how this works. There are 12 provinces and 3 territories, and hundreds of municipalities. There is no monolith government banning buildings. There is the reality of climate.
There have been some changes recently where the Ontario government is pushing mass timber buildings as greener alternative to concrete.
https://news.ontario.ca/mnr/en/2018/04/ontarios-mass-timber-program.html
How it works in the US does not dictate how it works in other countries.
In the US city planning may be at city level in other countries it may be at provincial level or at the federal level with rules what they can and cannot do.
Cities and states in the US seem to have more power. To there is city planner here from Canada I have no idea how it works up there or what the federal government has done or not done or ban or not ban.
But I remember thread one time saying why are houses so much better in Germany than the US.
I’m telling you how it works in Canada. I have lived here my entire life here and have family connections into property development and a personal interest in urban planning. There are many differences - systems of government, demographics, cultural belief, climate, among others. It is simplistic to try and identify a single element that accounts for differences.
When you go to school taking urban planning in Canada is it local, provincial or federal giving info on urban planning on suburb and urban and different things and is it the same in the US? The textbooks the papers so on.
Can one city ban high rise well other city say ban homes that us build mid rise apartments does city hall have that kind of power?
In many US cities have what is called hight limits in zoning does Canada have this?
Many US cities have zoning density rules this is high density area and this is medium density area and this is low density areas does Canada have this?
Can one city have different fire safety code than other city or is this top down approach from the provincial or federal government.
What powers can city do and not do?
In Canada, cities are created by the provinces. Building codes are also provincial. Zoning is generally municipal, but politics get involved.
At the end of the day, zoning is a compromise between the needs of residents, business, the tax base, employment, and other factors.
The reason I bring this up is because I remember reading thread why are US homes so cheaply made compared to homes in Germany .
Why are houses in Europe and America built so radically differently?
So the city planning is different it seems over there that may explain city planning difference of apartments. That why I ask is wood apartments ban in Canada does all apartments have to be large concrete in Canada.
Toronto is a city where even the houses are largely made of brick. Some of this is due to Toronto is in a series of river valleys with easy access to clay. Some is because of the great fires of 1849 and 1904 that burned large parts of the city.
My house was built in about 1915 of brick, but every house I have lived in here was of brick construction too.
That may have been true at one point, but I think most recent construction is a wooden frame with a brick facade.
What are the 11th and 12th provinces of Canada? 
To be fair, I think the number “12” is just a mental slip that comes from the fact that Canada had long had ten provinces and two territories. The latter become three territories when the Northwest Territories carved out Nunavut as a separate region in 1999.
Yes, thanks for the backup @wolfpup. It’s like people saying the Solar system has 9 planets, as God intended.