Statement by Anton Lodder

As a former resident and current property owner in Hamilton, I'm asking you to reinstate funding for Hamilton's LRT project.

This project is 12 years in the making, including nearly $150M already spent. It is an excellent idea for Hamilton, replacing the 5-10 different bus routes that currently run on the corridor along the expansive, overbuilt King Street route in Hamilton's downtown core.

Hamilton has a lot of potential for new developments -- it has a large quantity of cheap surface parking and poor-quality, low-density buildings that are ripe for reinvestment around a rapid transit line, generating new jobs and businesses.

Your decision to cancel funding for this project, months before real bids come in, on the basis of made-up numbers, is shocking. It is inconsistent with other cities which do get funding commitments for projects, such as Toronto, Toronto, Toronto, Toronto, Toronto, Ottawa, Richmond Hill, Vaughan, Mississauga, and Waterloo. It makes the provinces positions on other transit projects completely unbelievable.

If you can't get Hamilton LRT done, why should anyone believe you can deliver any other transit commitments you've made? If you can't deliver an LRT for less than 4 times the cost of ION in waterloo, why should anyone believe that you can run the province efficiently and cut waste? It goes against your brand and I don't understand it.

Build Hamilton's LRT

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