Comment 97922

By Joshua (registered) | Posted February 25, 2014 at 16:14:57 in reply to Comment 97919

So, let's create a hierarchy of options: more buses on routes, BRT, and--the Holy Grail, Shangri-La, Tir-nan-Og rolled into one--onward and upward to LRT.

If we put more buses on the roads, that might help Mr O'Connor get to his job quicker (see his op-ed in Tue Feb 25 2014's Hamilton Spectator), which is good, and keep our amalgamated transit unionists in fine fettle (which is what I've heard from two HSR drivers now)--employed, pensioned, and otherwise. The drawbacks, however, include more diesel buses on the road and more pollution, which isn't great, but that may be helped by fewer cars from those drivers who are now riders of the people's chariot.

90% of our federal gas tax revenue goes to road infrastructure (see http://hamiltoncatch.org/view_article.ph... and the other 10% to HSR operations. It should be the other way around and, heck, a higher tax at the pump would wound, not kill, the middling class. The only way change happens, these days, is not at the ballot box but at the wallet. Keep voting, though, and work inside and outside parliamentary democracy; 'we must be still and still moving / Into another intensity' (T. S. Eliot, East Coker, from Four Quartets).

Weresch

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