Comment 106467

By CATCH (anonymous) | Posted November 27, 2014 at 23:01:30

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The new city council inherits the slowest growing transit system in the province which has recorded drops in ridership in four of the last seven years. Councillors are arriving with lots of election promises to improve the HSR but also saddled with a quarter-century tradition of refusing to increase transit funding.

Yearly provincial surveys put Hamilton far behind other large municipalities in ridership growth with only a 3.1 percent gain in the last eight years. In the same 2006-2013 period, Brampton recorded over 90 percent growth, Durham and Waterloo regions over 50 percent, and even St Catharines climbed nearly 11 percent despite the latter city losing population.

Mississauga is up 25 percent since 2006 and earlier this month opened the first segment of a $460 million bus rapid transit (BRT) system that will cover 18 km by its completion in 2017. Both the federal and provincial governments provided some financing, but nearly 70 percent is being covered by Mississauga residents who are already obtaining faster annual transit growth than Hamilton has achieved over the last seven.

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