Comment 96860

By RobF (registered) | Posted January 16, 2014 at 11:45:05 in reply to Comment 96804

It's a safe bet to say that there are people who view downtown and the lower city as nothing more than an expressway, but i'm more inclusive about who they are. Not just people from "the suburbs", but many lower city residents ... they use these roadways to speed thru adjacent areas, etc.

It's easy with two-way conversion on Main to place the resistance elsewhere because it is designed to move traffic thru in its current form, but listening at meetings in the North End to complaints about bump-outs and other street design changes, including certain two-way conversions tells me that opposition/resistance to "complete streets" isn't simply external.

There are also many residents, myself included, who support the plan, but the same tired arguments against two-way conversion and street design changes on Main, King, Cannon, and so forth are expressed by locals in these forums ... and they care about the neighborhood and downtown.

They don't see the problem, however. It has led me to believe with an election coming up that supporters of "complete streets" and urbanism in general need to think carefully and strategically about where the opposition is coming from and not simply lump it together with antipathy and disregard for the lower city from elsewhere in Hamilton.

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