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Public transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳 (infosec.pub)
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[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you see this as an image intented to criticise Toronto i can see your point. But it is also be considered an image showing development in China. Building a system like this is impressive. But i agree for that purpose you could leave Toronto out.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

Well that's my point: the comparison makes very little sense.

Population: Chengdu over 20 million vs. under 3 million in Toronto.

The maps above also seem to be differently scaled.

Also, the fact that it has technologically developed fast in the past decades, as compared to Canada that has developed steadily in the past century, is not really the gotcha OP seems to imply it is.

That said, it’s perfectly possible that public transport in Toronto leaves much to be desired - without pointlessly comparing it to Chengdu.

And that doesn't even take into account the one "advantage" of totalitarian regimes, which some people always forget: it's possible to act faster when there's no democratic process. Plus rampant corruption resp. cutting of corners (one commenter on the post I linked went into detail, with sources, on that). Again, not saying TTC is completely free of that.