Comment 26830

By schmadrian (registered) | Posted October 03, 2008 at 16:00:38

Not sure what the problem here is. 'Loitering' is a specific term to describe specific behaviour. It generally means 'the idle activity of those with nowhere better to go, with nothing better to do.'

I catch the bus at Gore. I have no desire to go in there, no desire to even transect the property. The number of 'non-desirables' there is almost always been greater than 'others', and quite frankly is a turn-off.

Is this elitist? Absolutely. Do I have sympathy for those whose lives have thus far been constructed in such a way as to be categorized as I've suggested? Yes...to an extent.

Look, development of the downtown is not going to include great gestures of egalitarianism. That's not what vibrant inner cities have. You don't get businesses investing, you don't get shoppers shopping, and you sure don't get people getting excited about living in places where there are people 'loitering' about, hanging around because they simply don't have anything better to do, anywhere better to go.

I'm a big guy, 6'3", 240 lbs, but I wouldn't consider spending any time in or even around Gore as it is. The downtown has become a shit-pit and as such, flies have settled. No apologies for my analogy; there's a segment of this city that's hardly the stuff of pride and boosterism...I know, I regularly ride the buses with them.

As a final comment, I love the Hamilton Ambassador Flash Drives being used to promote the city. Do you think photos of Gore Park with all its current 'visitors' would be a good way to show outsiders what the city's like...?

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