Comment 118879

By KevinLove (registered) | Posted May 27, 2016 at 22:21:02

I applaud Mr. Ciupka for the enthusiasm that comes through in his three articles. However, I would suggest a bit more research.

The LRT is a reverse Robin Hood Story. Collect from the poor and give to the rich.

Absolutely untrue. The proposed Hamilton LRT is 100% funded by the provincial government, whose largest income source is income taxes. These came to an annual total of $29.2 billion in 2014-2015. It is rare for governments in Canada to attempt to finance themselves by taxing poor people. This is because poor people have an unfortunate habit of not having very much money to tax.

...and travel about 25-30 kilometres per hour.

Current provincial legislation allows electric bicycles to have power assist up to 32 km/hr.

Introduce Odd-Even GO service, so that everyone gets to work sooner

I don't know what that is. Neither does Google.

SoBi, essentially a 750 commuter style bike system with one gear and a basket in the front.

This is from one of your comments. SoBi bicycles have three gears.

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