I actually saw a statistic yesterday about how 7 of the top 10 cities for amount of people taking public transit to work in North America are Canadian cities. The reason the stat was that way too was because of the burbs. So apparently this is something we are good at and also investing even more money in. I mean my last job involved an hour and a half sometimes longer bus ride to go what would have been a 10 minute drive (I knit so it's never wasted time). For someone like me though that's awesome because my earlier option was carpooling in at 7 am, waiting around for one 4pm class then going back a few hours later because I lived way out in the middle of nowhere ( I very rarely attended this class). So when I moved and I had buses at my disposal it was amazing. But a big component of that is apparently Canadian cities are really good at public transit.