Comment 87353

By Capitalist (anonymous) | Posted March 19, 2013 at 15:46:15 in reply to Comment 87351

"The real benefit is that LRT transforms the land use around the line by attracting billions of dollars in new private investment to increase the density and variety of uses"

Really, perhaps you may want to take a look at Detroit and Buffalo to see where these billions in new development have benefitted them.

So you think that because we have LRT that takes you dt someone is going to build condos on Main and Sherman? First off the LRT trip across the city won't be much faster than it is now to induce more people to move to the lower city. Second, the King and Main corridors already are built up, there is not much available land for your billions in investments. Do you think that developers will buy property to tear them down? Good luck with that. People from RTH and McHattie will complain about hertage preservation. There just is not a great deal of demand to locate in the lower city. LRT wil not change that. This is not Toronto with hundreds of thousands commuting to their dt jobs.

About 25 years ago Hamilton received GO train service. City leaders said that it would rejuvinate the dt. Has it? Where are the billions in investments from that? Most people who use GO get dropped off and picked up at the station from their mountain homes. I know I did that for 9 years.If we get LRT the only people who would use it are those who currently use the HSR. People who drive to their jobs will still drive because they value their time and they probably don't work along the Main/King corridor in the lower city.

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