Comment 45294

By JonC (registered) | Posted August 09, 2010 at 20:13:57

Meister "As a side note, Manchester has a population of about 2/3 of Hamilton with an area of about 1/10 of Hamilton. The city is as different as night and day. The populace is also as different as night and day. An automobile is not necessarily in a city that small. Here virtually everybody has a car and it is their principle means of transport. Transit does not work well in a city as spread out as Hamilton and neither does a downtown stadium."

I guess if you want to be ignorant, that's a fine way to look at it. Realistically, if you remove the low density rural areas added to Hamilton at amalgamation, the area of Hamilton is less than double that of Manchester, with a higher population providing a lower density than that of our British counterpart, but in the range of 1:1.5, not particularly different. So really, if you feel that a car isn't a necessity there, you are pretty much saying it isn't necessary here either. We just choose to subsidise that method of transportation to the point where all other mass transit methods are no longer financially feasible.

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