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By Mr. Meister (anonymous) | Posted November 05, 2008 at 01:49:28
You’ve got me totally confused. What are horizontal traffic lights and what do they mean?
If you don’t hate cars why are you advocating all these anti car changes that will wreck havoc with our city like slowing traffic to a pedestrian safe speed of 32KPH? Making more 2 way streets and the like?
I understand that other levels of government will help pay for an LRT but that said it’s still taxpayer dollars. I pay too much in taxes to all levels of government. IF the city has to pay ONLY $305 million dollars to build the LRT that much money could fund the HSR for 10 years at current levels. I’m not sure what “…almost 2.5 times cheaper than Calgary's system which is less than half as long.” means. Half as cheap much means $1.00 instead of $2.00. What does 2.5 times cheaper mean? Over the years I have seen many preliminary estimates for big projects and when the actual budget is put together it's always way higher and then the project invariably runs over budget.
If your aim is to convince people to take transit downtown then why not reduce the bus fare or make it free. For $305 million there are all kinds of better ways to spend it than another money sucking transit line.
You refer to cars being subsidized by public monies. How can you say that with a straight face? Between producing raw materials, building parts, assembling cars and all the taxes, including all the taxes on gas to all the levels of government our entire economy would stall without cars! Much of the steel we make right here goes to automobile manufacturing. Just taking all the tax dollars from the manufacture and sale of gas away from our governments would cripple them.
A city of our population and area cannot afford a pie in the sky, they’ll come if we build it, money sucking transit line. To the best of my knowledge Edmonton is the only city with a population of less than 1 million to build a LRT. Edmonton has a population of 750,000, about 50% bigger than ours, in an area just slightly smaller than ours, and their entire LRT system, after 4 or 5 additions over 30 years, after the initial build is still less than the 16 km proposed for Hamilton.
We need fiscally responsible government, not car hating zealots.
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