Comment 66189

By geoff's two cents (registered) | Posted July 14, 2011 at 18:54:35 in reply to Comment 66177

Capitalist, Vancouver's Skytrain wasn't built yesterday.

Vancouver's entire metro population was closer to 1.2 million when Skytrain was being planned and built. Moreover, this number takes into account a far greater surface area than the one which usually delimits Hamilton's (i.e. Hamilton-Burlington).

The Skytrain is widely credited (together with Expo 86) with helping Vancouver emerge from its reputation as an economic and cultural backwater, which it most certainly was in the late '70s and early '80s. From this perspective, Hamilton appears to have even more going for it now from a rapid transit perspective than Vancouver did before Skytrain was built.

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