Comment 69191

By Art Brut (anonymous) | Posted September 07, 2011 at 17:11:05 in reply to Comment 69177

I hear you. Not my thing either, but I’m guessing that the thinking is that you can still live in a nice place (say something south of Plains Road, potentially with a waterfront view) and be a 15-minute drive from two major downtowns. That’s arguably better than living in, say, Glanbrook, and being 25 minutes’ drive from one.

Like Hamilton, Burlington has small historic villages as part of its makeup – places like Aldershot, Nelson, Kilbride, Zimmerman, Nassagaweya, Tansley, Lowville and Appleby, settlements dating to in many cases to 1800-1840 period. By the 1870s, Burlington ran from Guelph Line to Brant, New to the Lake, with a column north to the rail lines (circa Plains Rd). It kept growing, but not by much -- it was density that it had going for it when, in 1958, it annexed the larger land masses of Aldershot to the west and Nelson to the north.

Hamilton wasn’t always so big, either. Here’s a Hamilton transit map from September 1959, for sake of comparison – with density effectively going no further south than Mohawk Road and no further east than Nash:

http://mappery.com/map-of/1959-Transit-Routes-of-Hamilton-Harbor-Map

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