Statement by Jen Jones

Please return funding for LRT in Hamilton. We need the transportation improvement to combat traffic congestion, the positive environmental impact of light rail transit vs the exhaust-spewing diesel busses we have currently which foul our air and create significant noise pollution, and to draw businesses to invest in higher density housing and new business along the rail line. As a city, we have already displaced persons from their homes and businesses and bought up properties along the proposed/promised rail line, which now sit boarded up and vacant which will draw graffiti and crime and present an increased fire hazard, as abandoned properties do. Hamilton needs financial and physical growth desperately, especially via densification downtown vs urban sprawl into farmlands. The LRT would assist this greatly. Hamilton needs to grow into the future, not stay in the past. The LRT linking to McMaster University will help students’ housing spread out further into the city vs concentrating it all in the West End which has created some issues for local homeowners. Please reconsider this project for our city.

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