Comment 88918

By LOL all over again (anonymous) | Posted May 23, 2013 at 23:01:26 in reply to Comment 88882

And every one of these French cities is tiny compared to Hamilton. In small compact high density cities transit, any transit, makes more sense than in spread out typical North American cities. I bet there those transit systems might even make money not lose it by the bucketful as is typical here.

No matter how much transit we have the possibility of transforming Hamilton into a the type of city that is typical in France is totally non existent. There is no city in North America that is like a typical French city with the only real exception being NYC. If you think we can transform Hamilton into another NYC then I want some of whatever you are smoking.

Compact high density cities with virtual no single family homes, no parking, incredibly high gas prices are ideal for transit any transit. Large spread out cities with thousands of single family homes, loads of parking, and lower gas prices then transit makes a lot less sense.

I understand LRT. Really I do. It is very expensive to build cheap to run and very expensive to repair and upgrade. Its bad enough to have a bus rolling down Main Street with 5 people on board and to have a LRT train capable of hauling several busloads of people rolling with 5 people on board is even worse.

In a city like Toronto which has real traffic problems with hundreds of thousands of commuters streaming into the city every day LRT makes sense. So do subways and huge investments since it is the driving force behind the province's and maybe the country's economies. In Hamilton a small city by almost any one's standards it does not.

Funding the transit improvements in Toronto might be possible but in Hamilton I don't see it.


Let the downvoting begin.

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