Comment 42249

By Mr. Meister (anonymous) | Posted June 21, 2010 at 12:53:31

I am not a defeatist, however I am very much a realist. I think more cycling infrastructure is a good thing and will increase cycling. I think bicycle commuting will always be a fringe activity. There are just to many problems and drawbacks for the vast majority of commuters.

The relatively new e-bikes are likely to become even more popular although I do not know if they really count as bicycles or not.

Portland downtown is not composed of single family homes. In fact there is virtually no single or two story construction of any kind. Just what one would expect in the downtown of the largest city in the area, the destination for miles around. You can try and compare Hamilton to Portland or Geneva or Utrecht or Ottawa or Toronto but the difference with all of them is Hamilton is not the major destination all the others are. We need different solutions to our unique situation.

Blaming our downtown's woes on one way streets or lack of LRT ignores the fact that a few years ago downtown was a thriving and bustling place without LRT and with one way streets. Many things changed but not those things. In fact we have better transit now then we did then.










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