LRT support at yesterday's meeting was overwhelming, and Council did not vote to kill the project or defer it to a 2018 ballot question. However, some councillors are still trying to undermine the project.
Read More »Council specifically and repeatedly voted to ask the Province to approve and fund this plan, and we were elated when the Province delivered in 2015.
Read More »On Tuesday, October 25 at 10:30 AM, City Councillors are meeting at City Hall for a special committee meeting to discuss the Hamilton LRT plan.
Read More »List of LRT Reports and motions that Hamilton City Council has voted to support since launching the Rapid Transit Feasibility Study in 2008.
Read More »City Councillors will meet on October 25, 2016 at 10:30 AM to debate LRT yet again. Your support is needed now, more than ever.
Read More »We are very pleased to announce a series of posters for you to post in the windows of your home and business to show your support for LRT.
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As a resident of Hamilton, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with the government's decision to abruptly cancel the RFP process for the Hamilton LRT, without notice or consultation with any of the affected parties.
I implore you to reverse this decision immediately. I cannot understand why a project like the LRT, which has been studied and proposed for more than a decade, would be sabotaged in such a way. This cancellation will have (indeed, already has had) a chilling effect on business and economic development in Hamilton and in the province. The City is relying on the LRT to drive economic development in the Lower City and beyond, as it has done in places like Kitchener-Waterloo. Without it, all of the City's plans are moot and we'll basically be starting from scratch. This is about much more than transit!
It's not too late to change course-- people understand that this is a project this government inherited from the previous government. If we work together, and all levels of government work together, we can accomplish great things for the City of Hamilton. Re-open the RFP process and let the planners and accountants see the numbers from the private sector. Then, at least, an informed decision on the LRT can be made, based in fact, not in opaque numbers pulled from some unknown consultant's calculations.
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