Comment 100289

By YHMDesigns (registered) - website | Posted April 15, 2014 at 18:41:38

Thanks again Ryan for stepping up to the plate. Several points:

  • After a cursory search, I see nothing in Miss Creer's background to suggest she is an authority on transit or urban planning. Her opinion on this topic is not an informed one.
  • Her chief concern is the lack of transit service along outlying routes, and that is legitimate. However, there is no business case to support her ideas. What is the gap she seeks to close, how much will it cost, and what material benefit will it realize?
  • Adding more buses, and with lower floors, strikes me as an operational matter contingent on budgeting. Building LRT is a capital investment meant to shape economic growth and liveability for decades. They are not equivalent choices.
  • Inner-city poverty is real. But the only way to reduce poverty is to create wealth. Therefore, the idea of keeping central Hamilton deliberately poor (purportedly for affordability's sake) by not building LRT is antithetical. Surely there is a better way.
  • In publishing this column, the Spectator gives it credence, and that is not helpful.
  • How has LRT become framed as the cause of the elite? Really ... mass transit?

Egads,

Tom

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