Comment 84641

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted January 02, 2013 at 16:47:15 in reply to Comment 84640

Well, Brian Hollingworth is just a consultant with IBI group in Hamilton (based at Liuna station).

IBI has done an enormous amount of work for the City of Hamilton (notably the HSR plan), but there is not much one can say about Hollingworth other than he is a transportation consultant with IBI and definitely has a vested interest in backing up the City's position.

A search of the RTH site shows ten pages of hits referring to IBI's various plans, workshops and reports for the city, mostly backing up conventional motor vehicle priority planning principles!

Brenda Khes is a planner at the Hamilton office of Kitchener based GSP Group. Again, she is a consultant who presumably does work for the city of Hamilton. The GSP group seems to be a very conventional planning consultant group, and their website doesn't mention anything about pedestrian-friendly communities or traffic design. In fact, they are a member of the Hamilton-Halton Homebuilders Association, which promotes urban sprawl and low development charges (and the opposite of pedestrian-friendly communities).

It's true that that Burden and Gilbert were given lengthy intros, but it is warranted by their much more disinterested and broad expertise on the specific issue of pedestrian-friendly planning.

Comment edited by kevlahan on 2013-01-02 16:59:06

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