Mississauga City Centre

View of Mississauga City Centre from Rathburn Road

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[FrenchFriedPoop]

Best damn city I have ever lived in. Now I'm in shitty looking Philadelphia. I wanna go back to Mississauga so badly.

[699kl]

sauga!

[evannafanatic]

@sizone It takes time to build a downtown. Mississauga is just starting. As a suburb, it is in the advanced stages, but as a separate city, it's just beginning. You won't recognize that parking lot in there in a decade or two. You won't even recognize the area by then just as it was a decade ago. No one thought that Mississauga will be this dense. Mind you, Mississauga is denser than Calgary and Edmonton. Mississauga's development will also be infill, like Toronto, since they've run out of land.

[Glamstomp22]

BEST FRIGGEN SKATE SPOT EVVVAAAAAARRRR

[sizone]

@domenicierullo toronto is a bunch of old town centres connected by relatively high density infill residential areas. Those areas retain their centrality to the surrounding housing, people still use them to walk to for their errands. Once you make the roads wide, the lots big it takes too long to walk - and sides, the traffic is light , so why not drive? and yet... it still takes 2x the time that it would have taken to walk to the nearest grocery in toronto+gas+parking+carmaint $

[sizone]

@ChelseaTheUtuber problem is only you and 100 other people can walk there in 5 minutes. no one else can.

at st Clair/yonge, 5 min away comprises about 10,000 people. that's what real density is. a 2 min walk along Yonge or StClair there will make you pass by 200 destinations - 200 businesses, offices, stores or restaurants.

2min of driving along Hwy 10 at Burnham (or Hwy 7 near unionville) at 70km/h will let you pass maybe 20 big box stores. It's a waste of time, gas, money and environment.

[sizone]

@99pitbulls err. it's not a city not because of it not being big enough, but because it has no core. its a bedroom for toronto and the Mayor's office has ensured this. Guelph has more city-life than Mississauga. A 3rd-rate symphony or live-stage theater for retirees does not culture make.

There's almost nothing of any value in misssauga except its park ravines and marshes.

[sizone]

@TrandomnesstwO the only places with hope are port credit, which has some walkable area, but could easily be fitted with more (esp if there was an LRT in the middle of lakeshore, and go train for regional), it's pretty nice already.

Streetsville has a great walkable 6-8 blocks of real town with a small square, nearby park and a goTrain station. The houses on the sidestreets are amazing. So much history and culture!

Cooksville used to be ok, but big condos with too much parking dominate now.

[sizone]

@TrandomnesstwO WHAT?

are you kidding me? Those endless parking lots are built into the whole planning of the area. They will not suddenly morph into store-line streets. The whole model REQUIRES burnhamthorpe and Hurontario be 6 godamn lanes at 70km/h or they cant get past the endlessly long parkinglots in sufficient time to get anywhere!

It's a low density nightmare.

Before I die, I guarantee this area will never be walkable in any reasonable sense.

[sizone]

@FrenchFriedPoop dude i got out of mississauga as soon as I was old enough to. It's a godamn hellhole of endless parking lots and 6 lane roads full of slow moving traffic. Devoid of any culture, street life, nothing left to chance. Nothing interesting, no LIFE. Toronto and Guelph, even, a tiny city 1 hr away, are far more ALIVE with real people instead of being locked into CARS and CAR CULTURE.

Check out the endless fields of salted pavement in your video. That's a city? Eww.

[harrisonconstantinou]

@evannafanatic the toronto airport is operated by a private firm but owned by transport canada

[evannafanatic]

@skillcentre Neither Mississauga nor Toronto controls the airport. It's the GTAA who does. 99% of it is in Mississauga. Never forget that the taxis and limos in the airport are Mississauga's, not Toronto's. Peel Regional Police provides security in the airport, not Toronto Police. Check out Port Credit for sightseeing. Absolute World is their landmark. A 42-storey Mariott hotel is proposed at Hurontario/Dundas. Lakeview (Dixie/Lakeshore) will have a seaport and a beach. Any more questions?