Comment 61977

By Mr. Meister (anonymous) | Posted April 08, 2011 at 02:44:26 in reply to Comment 61965

Have you ever been to Europe? The cities there are vastly different then Hamilton or any other North American city, with maybe one or two exceptions. The single family home just does not appear in the numbers there as they do here. Totally different lifestyles. If that is the way you want to live the only way to accomplish that is to move there. Hamilton has an area of over 1100 Km2, that is about the same as the total of these European cities;Amsterdam 225,Utrecht 100,The Hague 100, Rotterdam 25, Marseille 90, Lyon 50, Toulouse 125, Nice 75, combined. The differences are so huge that any comparison between Hamilton and any city from Europe is nonsensical. This single fact of area is why transit, cycling, and walking are so vastly different between us and the old world. Our cities are just so different. If you live in a city that only covers a 100 KM2 how fast do you really need to go to get to where you are going? Transit works so does cycling and even walking. How does that look in a city of 1,000 Km2? Not quite so appealing. Yes I know that people walk and cycle and take transit here but it will never work as well here as it does there, and then there is the weather but that is another post.

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