Comment 86422

By adrian (registered) | Posted February 17, 2013 at 11:59:09 in reply to Comment 86417

I believe Hamilton should re-position the downtown core and West Harbour as a historic feeling district akin to old Montreal. Imagine cobblestoning James St from the escarpment to harbour, Imagine turning Main, King, Cannon and Bay into walkable tree-lined streets where business owners can begin to re-invest in with new restaurants, patios, hotels, condos. Imagine being able to easily zip around Hamilton's great urban districts on LRT. Imagine a city filled with bike rental stations where one can explore Cootes Paradise, the waterfront trail, escarpment Bruce Trail and it's various lookouts and take in a local meal at Radius or Bread Bar and a late night concert all in one day?

This is an amazing vision. I'd love to see this fleshed out into a package that city council could sell to the public. This is so much more exciting than many of the projects the city has undertaken that cost far more money than I think this would.

To get city-wide buy-in, perhaps the vision includes these types of transformations focused on a section in every ward, so the entire city can take part. Concession Street on the mountain and Ottawa Street come to mind. The different areas could be connected by cycle paths and public transit routes and you could promote a ward-by-ward tour that visited each of the different areas.

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