Comment 65064

By Inhocmark (registered) | Posted June 22, 2011 at 16:23:16 in reply to Comment 65028

I don't think it's fair to attack 'suburban' counsellors when their mandate is to serve their wards the same as any downtown counsellor would. Fair or not, in order to bring the entire city on board with ambitious projects you have to be able to show how it would benefit the entire citizenry. When the current Public Transportation in my ward makes it impossible at any point to use the HSR to travel the 9KM from my house to Downtown Hamilton, blaming the counsellor that is suppose to protect my interests for anything is wrong.

I'm not adverse to building an LRT, but I'd like to see some understanding of situation that citizens like myself are in, especially when it comes to public transit and our limited access to it before we, or our representatives get called out.

And yes, I've heard the arguments that I 'chose' to live where I did and that is part of the problem. They're tired. At the end of the day even the most well intentioned of us are unable to act on those intentions becuase of the current state of transit in our area and we're being asked to pay more in taxes for a project that even if we wanted to use, we couldn't.

Give me a bus that will get me downtown 7 days a week and I'm totally on board with an LRT plan. Until then, try not to judge me too harshly for not being all gung ho for the project. It's a little tough to swallow being the bad guy when I pay taxes for transit but have to rely on Burlington Transit or GO to get me 9KM into the downtown core.

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