Comment 27101

By Rusty (registered) - website | Posted October 30, 2008 at 15:15:47

I didn't decide to take the train to Toronto when I lived in Hamilton, I moved to Toronto instead. People make the choices that appeal to, and are available to them. To suggest that people will just keep on driving is ridiculous. The fact is you should be able to make a choice as to whether to own a car. For many folks there simply is no choice.

I just came back from an appointment at Rogers in Brampton. The Rogers site is massive but the car park is enormous. There must be over a thousand cars. I asked the lady I was meeting with how she got to work and she laughed, 'I drive. We all drive. There's no other way to get up here'

Those employees - many of whom were relocated from Toronto offices - have no choice but to drive. As oil prices increase and congestion becomes worse it will be harder and harder for folks to afford to drive. We need to integrate transit into our city planning so that we can prepare for the changes ahead. While transit may be a 'cost' to tax payers now (and I'm not convinced that all transit systems are, when you factor in the health, environmental and other benefits they provide), in the future, if we build integrated transit networks, this will not necessarily be the case.

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