Comment 96360

By -Hammer- (registered) | Posted December 25, 2013 at 14:22:12 in reply to Comment 96081

So the majority of people drive in Hamilton to go to work with a commute time of 25 minutes, which according to the divorce rate numbers is well under 45 minutes. So the argument against changing the status quo and increasing the time of driver commute time in Hamilton, who I may add are the overwhelming majority over all the other groups by a scale of about 5.75 to 1 is what exactly?

What I draw from this is public transit needs to be improved. Both via better GO Service and upgrading existing local transit. The Bus lane on King seems to be a reasonable step, as is LIUNA station's GO station. As would expanding bus service and yes (assuming higher government fronts the cost) an LRT.

I also draw that people cycling to work are 0.1% of working commuters in the city, which is an incredibly small minority, which I draw from this means more infrastructure should be generated to encourage cycling, but not at the cost of major car/truck/van routes and blatantly disregarding the overwhelming majority. IE putting routes at sensible locations like say Canon, or Charlton/Cumberland, or South Bend/Bendamere/Macassa and not disrupt major car traffic veins like Mohawk Rd, Main/King/ Burlington St, the LINC, Rymal Rd. etc.

Comment edited by -Hammer- on 2013-12-25 14:27:25

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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