Comment 110988

By mikeonthemountain (registered) | Posted April 22, 2015 at 20:25:15 in reply to Comment 110986

A little thought experiment. You're gonna spend a billion dollars on a capital expenditure. To which of the following would you send this kind of money with greater confidence:

  1. Somewhere whiny and indecisive, without vision or direction, a history of watering down projects and underperforming on them, while wasting large amounts of capitol on fruitless foolishness, such as lawsuits for having to do an environmental assessment before paving a watershed, lawsuits against a crown corporation that will certainly fail, that uses technicalities to spend improvement capitol on filling potholes it can't afford to fill, only to go broke in the end anyway, while being obtuse and not open to progress, having an explicit policy of supporting and blessing sprawl.

  2. Somewhere with a clear vision of how it wants to develop, articulated well and with commitments and steps taken to make it happen, with clear intensification goals and milestones, well connected to the rest of the region, with employers and higher density developers attracted to the location, committed to repairing mistakes of the past, and showing evidence of same.

I know which of the two I would invest in with greater confidence of getting a bigger picture return on investment. Hamilton deserves higher order transit and all day GO. However I see it stuck in an identity crisis the likes of which one has to look to Detroit to find a comparison. Not to be negative - everything is fixable - this too.

As for 10 years until all day GO? Glad I didn't wait up.

Comment edited by mikeonthemountain on 2015-04-22 20:26:48

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