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By Mr. Meister (anonymous) | Posted August 05, 2011 at 10:02:42 in reply to Comment 67430
AGAIN the crap. Where did I ever say we cannot, should not or do not deserve nice things? The easy answer is only in your reply. Why do you do this nonsense, why can you not stick to the facts and stop the horrible accusations. Again I think that you do this because the case for LRT in a city the size of Hamilton just does not make any sense and you have to try and discredit me in an effort to discredit my reasonable and justifiable doubts because you just do not have any real answers to them.
What attracts people from St. Catherines to Hamilton? Do they come for the fine dining? the sports? other recreational activities? the night life? Mostly the answer is no. Maybe the odd concert. Hamilton is not a destination city for any of those things now or any time soon with or without LRT. Hamilton is a destination city for some of the people who live here. Mostly the destination city for most of us for Sports (Leafs, Raptors and twice a year Bills) entertainment (concerts big and small, shows like Memphis, Cirque Du Soleil's Totem, or Billy Elliot) fine dining (Susor Lee, Mark Mark McEwan) The List goes on and on. Toronto really is a destination city for millions of people. Hamilton not so much. That is not a belittlement of Hamilton it is simply stating the obvious something that you try to deny. Sure some people who work here actually live in St. Catherines and commute that hardly makes us the hub of a 1.3 million person metropolis. If those people want the entertainment, fine dining or sports they too have to go to Toronto (or Buffalo.) Come on Ryan I was born at night but not last night. Use real meaningful comparisons and we can start to have a discussion about this. All you keep bringing to the table is nonsense and hype.
Look at Detroit. That is a much bigger city than Hamilton and they are building a LRT line of I believe 6 or 7 KM and they have a good size of that cost covered by private investment. Why can Hamilton not have a similar project? You keep telling us that developers are all over this then why do they not put up some money? They did in Detroit. Oh wait maybe it is because there are developers and other corporations with real money in Detroit and there are not any in Hamilton. Who can you ask in Hamilton Stelco? Oh wait they got bought up by US Steel and they idled the plant and their headquarters are in PITTSBURGH. Or maybe a 18 KM LRT line is too long and too expensive to make any sense for a city the size of Hamilton.
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