Comment 2370

By nobrainer (registered) | Posted November 27, 2006 at 15:11:40

If downtown streets were safer and slower and friendlier (I'm talking to YOU, one way street supporters!) more people would want to live there so they wouldn't have to figure out how to get in from outside. Stores and jobs would follow the people downtown - also the kind of jobs that pay well and attract graduates who want nightlife and culture - and suddenly there'd be all kinds of people living, working and shopping downtown. Some people would even move in from the suburbs once downtown is seen as being safer and busier. Right now, most people don't go downtown today - who'd want to, with cars roaring by and closed storefronts everywhere? - they're just passing through. I'm downtown and I'm tired of my city getting sold down the river so you can zip through my neighborhood 1.3 minutes faster. Make the streets two way, add light rail --streetcars or electric buses-- and out goes your argument that busses would have to sit in traffic. Look at the bloggy on the hipness battle --that's what we need to do in Hamilton. Bring the people back downtown permanently and they won't have to worry about how to get here. All that traffic simply disappears, just like Jane Jacobs proved it will.

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