Comment 88032

By -Hammer- (registered) | Posted April 19, 2013 at 22:12:16 in reply to Comment 87861

First off, the Eaton centre in Toronto doesn't have free parking and it's doing quite well for itself.

This is because the Eaton Centre is in a city core with a high amount of density and pedestrain traffic/infrastrucutre bellow it and linking subway, rail & bus routes to compliment it's car access.

I will agree free parking certainly helps a commercial development, but given that free parking cannot and will not occur in Hamilton as too many speculators own the majority of the private lots and they have no incentive to stop charging, and the city certainly isn't going to stop if they aren't going to.

So the solution goes back to the Eaton Centre. Subsidizing higher density development in the area, pedestrian initiatives, better public transit and still leaving at least one major through way for cars to utilize (after all it's still very close to the Gardiner and the very large University Ave. so leave Main/King one way, although an LRT lane along main I would be completely behind).

Comment edited by -Hammer- on 2013-04-19 22:16:10

Still waiting for the Randle Reef mess to get cleaned up, but hopefully not much longer!

http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2012/12/18/hamilton-randle-reef-announcement.html

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