Raise the Hammer

But it isn't (by definition anyway), their wants that matter. It's ours and yes we can put together petitions and delegate and send emails, but on this one we need to give them some solutions to help us avoid the need for more highways. We need to clear up the 403, Link, Red Hill, and QEW Toronto by jobs exploding across our industrial district. Ways to utilize empty space in schools rather than close them, so people can work in their neighborhoods and lesson the need for cars or even heavy public transit use.

WE need to come up with a plan. We need the Red Hill why, so we can get to Meadowlands or Stoney Creek shopping centres, movie theatres, Leons, etc., but whey didn't we look to give folks down here what they look for up there? What are people driving to and let's give it to them closer to home. If there was a movie theatre even like Westdale in my area (Ottawa Street), and I could also work from home or at workshare offices in Delta High School or something, I'd only need a car to pick up my girls. I have groceries, farmers market, street wall shops, bowling, coffee, dinner options, a stadium, Gage Park, and everything else I could possibly need right around me.

I'd love to team up with a bunch of folks and work on a made in Hamilton for Hamilontians business that employees 1000+ peeople, is green, is product needed in our community with no desire to sell outside our community or to add trucks/utilize space on trains to export.

If we really want to avoid more highways or mass amounts of our tax dollars going to repair roads, I think it's finally time for US to all do something about it.

This is a highly creative city from innovation to creation. I don't want more highways or trains out of here. I want to stay and keep others right here. We have beautiful conservation areas and trails and waterfalls, a hopping beach strip in Hutches and Baranga's and Waterworks, and so many beautiful spaces. Our culture is exploding as well including much talked of James North.

We can go back to the stadium and be at a point where 22,500 is enough and is filled with mostly locals because London and Niagara and Missisauga and many surrounding communities have similar sized mutli-use structures in a more regionalized game and we visit other cities to watch this game but we don't need to rely on outside fans because we have adopted such a strong live, work and play base in Hamilton more in line with a walkable template and where transit is alternatively much more popular when we do need to venture from our own hoods, than cars.

Many dreams I guess but at some point the roads thing has to come to a screeching halt. I am sure if there is one thing many of us have in common on a board like this, it's that we really care about our city and the worlds future in general and that our need for cars needs to somehow become an increasing way of the past.

Comment edited by lawrence on 2012-10-18 11:03:11