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By TreyS (registered) | Posted February 12, 2012 at 22:03:47
I'd like you to post Ward by Ward census, not census tracts. From 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011. And show me how how Wards 1,2,3,4,5 are not consistently losing populations. You can pick and chose a few census tracks whereby one apartment building makes a % difference. Wards, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are losing population. There are a few people around town that claim we can;t compare our proposed LRT to Buffalo's failed LRT because Buffalo was/is losing population. We are also.
LRT needs to have a stronger argument than that. If we get called on it, Buffalo's argument will sink us. It has to go back to the Places to Grow Act. Apparently Hamilton, which was identified as a Places to Grow, specifically the lower city, is losing population. How so? I though we were a growth area? What's wrong? No Jobs? Poverty? Crime? No schools? No development? So how is it wrong that the PanAm Stadium gets built in an area that needs all that?? And cannot be considered 'city building'. It absolutely is City building.
It's convenient to pick a few census tracks, but the LRT decision makers are going to look at Wards, population trends as a whole. Not a few select CTs. Look at those CT numbers and clearly downtown is in a state of at best status quo. The world grew to 7 billion, Canada grew % more than any G8, but Hamilton?.... a void. Hamilton is situated in the heartland of the fastest growing G8 Nation, but barely makes growth. What's wrong? We actually grew less than the national average, and provincial average. not only that, the core of our city, the lower city, SHRUNK.
Something is clearly wrong in Dodge.
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