Raise the Hammer
By RTH Staff
Published September 02, 2011
Next Saturday, September 10 marks a mega-weekend for Hamilton events: Supercrawl on James Street North, the Canadian Country Music Awards Fan Fest at the Hamilton Convention Centre, and the Locke Street Festival on Locke Street South.
The City of Hamilton is providing a free shuttle bus on Saturday from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM that cycles between six stops: Main Street West and Locke Street, John Street North and Wilson Street, Pier 8 at the Waterfront, James Street North and Strachan Street West, James Street North and York Boulevard/Wilson Street, and King Street West and James Street North.
By mrgrande (registered) | Posted September 05, 2011 at 13:56:45
lol @ "Lock Street" in the legend. Nice work, EcDev.
Edit: Also, why is it stopping at Pier 8?
Comment edited by mrgrande on 2011-09-05 13:57:47
By Fred Street (anonymous) | Posted September 06, 2011 at 11:00:48
Guessing that this is a mutated version of the 99 Waterfront Shuttle (now retired for the season), which also runs to Pier 8/Discovery Centre. that stop might carry over as a matter of convenience, but more probably as a sop to Tourism Hamilton/Waterfront Trust... might have helped tap extra funding for the free service. The map leaves a lot of blanks, though -- no directional arrows, no mention of departure times. Presumably the routing will avoid cutting through Supercrawl and the Locke Street Festival, so this may be turn out to be a less-than-competitive alternative. The walk from Locke/Main to York/James is around 20 minutes; the 99 loop ran on the half-hour, and paid routes like 5/6/7 that run on a tighter schedule might be a better bet.
By Fred Street (anonymous) | Posted September 07, 2011 at 14:57:36
Not especially well-publicized, but here we go: The festival shuttle runs every half hour and will reportedly take six minutes to get from Main & John to John & WIlson.
http://www.supercrawl.ca/img/artist//Bus%20schedule.bmp
By jason (registered) | Posted September 07, 2011 at 14:58:12
good idea.... an even better idea would be to have Main and King as true, walkable, bustling downtown streets and people could enjoy an afternoon walking through the city.
By oh my (anonymous) | Posted September 07, 2011 at 21:07:21
Main and King are walkable, the reason that its not bustling is that not enough people live and shop there. Frankly other than a few restaurants there isn't much of an attraction that Limeridge or Eastgate don't do better. Get some real investment instead of more government occupied offices and things will improve. The first step would be for RTH to lay off of investors
By Tybalt (registered) | Posted September 09, 2011 at 19:45:58
Pier 8 has an important visitor this weekend, as the tall ship Pride of Baltimore will be moored there. Worth a look. Also, at pier 9, HMCS Montréal, one of our Halifax Class patrol frigates, is visiting and will be moored next to the Haida.
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