Comment 15528

By CityJoe (anonymous) | Posted December 09, 2007 at 02:19:03

Quote: ""and are all anti-business (unless its a ma and pa shop), anti-growth and development."

Just to make my own point, I would drop dead twice for a Real Hardware Store, Not Walmart or Cdn. Tire! A Mom & Pop store, Mom & Pop with a franchise...I don't really care. Just a real hardware store with real tools, paint, & hardware!

I would also walk a mile for a real bus. (no wait a minute, I already do that.) A bus that will take me into Hamilton, to the Go-Station or a place of work that does not require me to ask, "Do you want fries with that?" Maybe even a bus that runs After the Mall closes, before it opens, or on Sundays After church! Is that really too much to ask in 2007!

Dundas got a lot of things right. They have a bus that does go down town..sometimes. You do not have to change bus's 3 times to get there. There are actual stores in Dundas as well as a Cdn. Tire, & so far no Walmart. Good! They also kept there downtown core pretty, picturesque & in tact. They did not hype up central King St. with big box stores & fast food. They did not tear down old buildings & build replicas of old buildings in their place. (although the old time replicas are a whole lot easier on the eyes than some of the stuff that has been built in the last 5 years.)

Absolutely correct that there is a world of difference between Old Ancaster, & Dundas & what surrounds them. I'm sure if you asked some of the people who live in the sprawl, the best thing that could happen is for the older areas to be 'improved' with demolition & re-development, so that everything would look Exactly Alike. For all I know, City Hall & the developers may feel the same way.



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