Comment 64871

By Mr. Meister (anonymous) | Posted June 13, 2011 at 23:31:48 in reply to Comment 64849

I have experienced LRT. My objection to LRT in Hamilton has always been the enormous costs for such a huge system as proposed. Detroit a city many times bigger than Hamilton is building a line less than 15 km and that was budgeted at $425,000,000. When was the last time a project like this came in on budget? At least some of that, about 25% was privately funded and the federal government was also contributing a chunk. Hamilton's proposed system is something like 18 km long. How do we pay for it? Even after it is built it still needs to be subsidized. Like always transit is all about density and distance. For transit to really work you need high density and short distances. Like Dublin.

You claim that James North the traffic is calmer and still navigable. There are a number of drivers who disagree with you. James North has indeed seen a resurgence since it was made two way. But what of John North? Nothing much has changed. If the changes on James North were directly attributable to the conversion would we not see a similar resurgence on John North? Look at James South, I think it is more dangerous now than before. Vehicles race from light to light trying to get through the mess. Pedestrians are constantly trying to dart across the road between traffic. One person died there recently and unless something changes soon they will not be the last.

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