Comment 102666

By Fred Street (anonymous) | Posted June 19, 2014 at 07:20:51 in reply to Comment 102656

70% of Hamiltonians (ie. 139,470 commuters) work somewhere within Hamilton 23,400 of those (ie. 17% of intra-Hamilton commuters), worked downtown (ie. Downtown Community Improvement Project Area, or Queen/Victoria/Cannon/Hunter plus James from LIUNA Station to St. Joe's) as of the summer of 2010. The remaining 116,070 (ie. 83% of intra-Hamilton commuters) work somewhere other than the Downtown CIPA. StatsCan indicates that 23,445 Hamilton workers commute to Burlington and another 21,880 Hamilton workers commute west to Oakville, Mississauga, Brampton and Toronto.

communitystudy.ca/pdfs/Where_Hamilton_Works.pdf
hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/D328256F-C312-462E-8D43-86D0E9478081/0/CPDHRDowntownHamiltonEmploymentAnalysis.pdf

"Final mile" is the missing link in all of these cases. Nudging people out of cars means providing fast, convenient service to the trunk line. Wards 1-5 fare reasonably well on this count, but the other 10 wards do not. Doubling the frequency of service in those wards would go a long way to encouraging drivers to use transit more often, but the cost would be considerable, since you're doubling the fleet and, with it, adding capital and O&M costs. The City has shown little appetite for new investment, and the HSR has been timidly respectful of council's reticence.

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