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Originally Posted by ryanomalley
It appears that also Toronto has quite a lot of urban sprawl on all sides....even going all the way down to Buffalo and Detroit?
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Sorry I did not address the Buffalo and Detroit part. Toronto absolutely does not sprawl even close to Detroit. That is a good 4.5 hour drive from the centre of Toronto in good traffic and requires travelling right across southwest Ontario. There is no and not by a long shot contiguous urbanized connection to Detroit from Toronto. Buffalo is a different story. In good traffic it is a 90-100 minute drive from the centre of Toronto. There is essentially contiguous built up area in the core area of Golden Horseshoe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Horseshoe
that connects Toronto with Buffalo. If you were to drive from Toronto to Niagara falls on the QEW, there is little to no areas that don't have urbanization now. The only thing separating the Buffalo MSA with that contiguous urbanized area that Toronto anchors is an international border. 30 percent of the people that fly out of Buffalo area airports are residents of the Greater Golden Horseshoe.
That all said the urbanization between Toronto and Buffalo isn't just sprawl. It contains some pretty respectable cities in their own right. Hamilton is at the top but you also have decent urban cores in St Catherines and Niagara Falls. They aren't functioning just as sprawl. There are also some smaller cities that have nice little urban centres that are quite old and interesting. Niagara on the Lake comes instantly to mind.
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