Raise the Hammer

Quoting A. Smith: "Clue in lefties, there is no more money left to pay for your grand ideas, such as LRT or fancy new stadiums."

You can pay now or pay later. You cannot sustain a City with never ending road construction, & an even larger & unending supply of personal vehicles clogging those roads. It's not 1955 anymore.

Hamilton will never return to being investment friendly unless it has the infrastructure to compete with other areas. Who cares if the taxes are really low, if you can't keep the power on, & your building floods on a regular basis? You can't bring in Hi Tech companies, & expect them to deal with outdated & unreliable utilities.

These problems date back decades to politicians would would not risk their re-election by stating the Honest Truth about the state of public utilities, & the need to Maintain them with tax dollars.

You seem to say that LRT (& probably public transit in general) Isn't part of City infrastructure, & I say it Is.

If you can't get your products out to your destinations on time, you are sunk. If you can't get your inventory into your place of business, ditto. If your employees can't get to work, or are late on a regular basis because of traffic jams, you loose productivity. If employees Must purchase, insure, gas up, & maintain a car to get to work (that would be one car per wage earner.), then you must pay them more to do that.

Would you kindly give me an estimate on how much it will cost to build several new traffic lanes on each of: The Joli Cut, The Clairmont Access, the Ancaster hill on Wilson Street, or the Ancaster hill on the 403, bearing in mind that these are all escarpment locations, with deep drops on one side, & limestone cliffs on the other...?

Ooooh... none of the "lefties' here wanted a giant, super stadium in the mode that the Ti-cats seemed to want, in a distant cornfield. Rebuilding Ivor Wynne is fine with me, if it doesn't exceed or approach the costs of building a new small stadium.
I would have been equally happy if the Ti-Cats had taken the next express bus to Moncton.