Comment 38768

By Really? (registered) | Posted March 15, 2010 at 10:41:43

I'm in Toronto very often, and let me tell you something about Leafs games (despite the fact they suck).. THERE IS ALMOST NO SURFACE PARKING LEFT NEAR ACC! Success Towers, Maple Leaf Towers, Telus Tower, Ice Condos (just to mention a few) have all occupied what was once a sea of surface lots around the ACC; Granted some buildings have U/G Parking (Success Towers), but all-in-all people generally do not drive to Leafs games in the hoards that they once used to.

Is this because Torontonians have a natural, birth-given attraction to Public Transit? No. Is it because Torontonians are generally more progressive than it's neighbour down the QEW? I'd say 'No', but that's arguable.

It's because Public Transit is an INCENTIVE over driving there: $20(and up) Parking Fees + Lack Of Visible Surface Spaces + After-game Traffic Chaos = an unattractive vision.

Rapid Transit (Subway) + $3.00 Fare + No Fighting Traffic + The Freedom of knowing you can drink w/o having to Drive = An Incentive to Take Public Transit.

If Hamilton could get the B-Line COMPLETED (Mac-EG), while somehow managing to convince the Province to fund a partial A-Line (TH&B GO Ctr to James North GO/Pan Am Park) by early 2015, Hamiltonians would not only have transit options, but would be given transit options which are BETTER than driving!

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