Comment 64157

By misterque (registered) - website | Posted May 28, 2011 at 20:37:30

Hamilton needs it all. The city needs safe efficient roads, intelligent bus service, connection to Southern Ontario with GO, bike routes, and walkable streets. The scarcity mentality that rules here limits everyone's thinking.

I will speak in defense of the most likely casualty in the vision less random pseudo-development that Greater Hamilton suffers: light rail. I grew up in Vancouver. And the first 22 years of my life there was no rapid transit. Finally it was built as part of EXPO '86. Every curmudgeonly low rent douche bag wanked on endlessly about how Vancouver could not afford it, it would bring thieves in from the burbs, it would disrupt traffic, no one would give up their cars, cats would run with dogs, blah blah blah.

Well the lamely named Sky Train is now the BACKBONE of Vancouver. 25 years later everything that is anything is connected to it. Even the burb Skytrain stations have large parking lots so that the burbians can Skytrain in. I have heard all the same anti-rail rhetoric a quarter century ago. This clap is stale politically motivated ramblings of myopic twits that profoundify themselves using fear-unknown-dread. If Hamilton blows rapid transit again (the city had chance for elevated rail about 25 years ago) then it will likely NEVER develop into anything more than a past-tense industrial wasteland.

Light rail is the key to this city's development. Hamilton needs to get selfish and focus on what will help it the most, and that is light rail.

Comment edited by misterque on 2011-05-28 20:39:11

:)hUe

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