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By Tybalt (registered) | Posted June 09, 2010 at 12:27:07
TO: Public Works Committee, City of Hamilton S. Merulla T. Jackson B. Bratina C. Collins L. Ferguson M. McCarthy D. Mitchell R. Powers
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am a resident of the lower city and a former longtime resident of the downtown core. I have lived in many of the downtown areas most affected by the heavy use by transport trucks of Hamilton's downtown streets (Strathcona and York Street especially, as well as the Durand) and for a long time worked at Main and James where the nonstop rumble of transport trucks passing through the city became an ever-increasing annoyance to my workday.
It is clear - I think indisputable - from the studies done and the representations of the Downtown BIA and the various residents' associations, that transport trucks passing THROUGH the city (i.e. with no business purpose in the downtown or lower city itself) are a major blight on quality of life and business in the city. It makes me utterly furious to see that nothing significant is being done to ease this obvious burden. We have recently come through a very painful and divisive experience in building the Red Hill Creek Expressway on the express promise that it would end the use of the lower city as a thruway for transport trucks. Sadly, this can now be seen as a complete lie.
I urge you to reconsider the decision immediately and adopt the requests of the Downtown BIA for an immediate moratorium on transport trucks on Main Street between Wellington and Dundurn, and of the Fruitland Road residents to lift the truck route designation from Fruitland Road, and to further encourage the full Council to approve such decisions immediately.
Please consider the health and safety of our citizens and the health of our downtown and its businesses as a matter of importance. I do and I think all those with an interest in Hamilton's return to greatness feel the same.
Yours sincerely,
[Tybalt]
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