Comment 41854

By Look Out (anonymous) | Posted June 10, 2010 at 16:41:44

Perhaps it's coincidental, but it seems to me that Hamilton has been in economic decline for roughly about the same amount of time it has had one-way streets throughout.

If downtown is such a good place to run trucks, why are all new, viable industrial parks located along perimeter highways?

The through-truck economic argument ignores the advice of folks like Richard Florida, to make communities liveable in order to attract the entrepreneurial intelligencia who will create local businesses. The truck transpo plan is more a dream about attracting big employers from someplace else. Dunno, but I don't hear much talk by Chinese industrialists hoping to relocate into South Ont. Has GM announced a post-recession expansion plan I haven't heard about? Could be I'm out of the loop though.

And it's not as though I'm widely travelled, but I'm trying to think of a busy commercial street I've been on that had 18 wheelers rumbling by two a minute. Not Queen St. Toronto. Not St. Laurent or Ste. Catharine in Montreal. Not The Miracle Mile in Chicago. Nope, not coming up with any, but I'll keep an eye and ear out. Maybe city planners could start a write-in campaign: "Tell us about the attractive and busy commercial and residential streets that supported heavy big-truck traffic in cities you have visited (pictures appreciated.)" Would make a nice column on RTH. Don't wanna move on that too quickly though.

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