Comment 100308

By AnjoMan (registered) | Posted April 16, 2014 at 08:24:21 in reply to Comment 100289

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.

To add to this, social housing only serves a subset of the population, whereas LRT benefits everyone from students to business owners, both the poor and rich can use it - in fact it provides more benefit to those who can't afford an alternative. Assuming we need both, I would say LRT is the better option.

Setting that aside, we don't get to choose between the two - its not like rejecting LRT would cause any money or staff efforts to be redirected towards social housing programs. We are talking about whether or not we want provincial transit dollars to be spent in Hamilton or somewhere else. To argue against LRT on this basis is counterproductive - if you win, the people you are advocating for will have neither LRT or affordable housing.

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