Comment 43604

By moylek (registered) - website | Posted July 17, 2010 at 21:20:54

A. Smith

Is it a coincidence that the areas of the city with the highest tax rates and highest level of public transit/spending are also the worst in terms of property values and income levels? Main and King have buses running all day and yet both streets are run down. Conversely, Dundas and Ancaster have less transit/government spending and yet both have healthier downtown's and higher incomes.

I'll see your Dundas/Ancaster and raise you Westdale: awful taxation, great transit, and a wonderful place with a healthy shopping district (between that of Dundas - super - and Ancaster - vestigial).

Once might argue that Westdale's economy is artificial, what with McMaster next to it. But then, what's natural about Ancaster anymore? It's a bedroom community now.

And as for King being run down - parts of King are doing very well. Oddly, one might think, the very parts of King which are narrowest: Wellington to John. I dare say that this not coincidence: people don't like to shop on expressways.

Comment edited by moylek on 2010-07-17 20:26:54

-- Kenneth Moyle Hamilton, Ontario

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