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Originally Posted by fusili
People often forget that a lot of utilities in the burbs go through the inner city to get to pump stations, treatment plants, power stations etc.
Case in point, West Memorial Sanitary trunk line. The line had to be upgraded through Bowness (that is the construction you see happening on 16th avenue by the Bow River) as the line was hitting capacity. But Bowness hasn't been growing for 10 years- it was actually increased usage from places like Valley Ridge and Crestmont (and Cochrane IIRC) that were adding to the capacity. A utility upgrade in the inner city was entirely due to increased usage from the suburbs.
Same goes for roads, power lines, water lines, storm water, fire stations, etc
If we add 10K people to the inner city we have to upgrade infrastructure in the inner city to serve them (generally). If we add 10K people to the suburbs we have to add the infrastructure in the suburbs AND the inner city to serve them. That is the fundamental reason why density makes sense, it requires less infrastructure per person than low-density areas.
This concept isn't hard.
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Most of the infrastructure dealing with utilities is not in the inner city. And frankly, your whole thesis is rather silly. It would be like me pointing out that water comes from the mountains through the suburbs to get to the inner city. A ridiculous point.
By the way, for all of your continuous claims of having me on ignore, you certainly do respond to a lot of my posts. I'm flattered.
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