Comment 93671

By z jones (registered) | Posted October 24, 2013 at 17:04:52

Bratina saves his protransit noises for fluff pieces in the Toronto Star.


Bratina, elected mayor in 2010, makes no secret of his desire for a re-urbanized city. He supports public transit, cycling, the arts and Hamilton’s long neglected downtown. Indeed, he waxes wistfully about growing up that city’s East End and how his father rode to work at Dofasco on a bike.

In 2005, when Bratina moved back into the then grungy downtown neighbourhood of Corktown, it was known locally as Cracktown. Friends thought he was mad. Now it’s a neighbourhood many can’t afford.

“Downtown is the face of the city,” Bratina argues. “If you don’t have a viable downtown, you don’t have a city.”


http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/...

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