Statement by Bonnie Patterson

I supported an LRT system in Hamilton when I lived there (my hometown) and I still do offer my support. My daughter and many others I know living there would appreciate the LRT System.

Please, get on with it already!

*The following is an excerpt from Globe & Mail article of Aug.26,2009:

[In pushing against the city's intransigence, Freiburger learned something that outside money has long known: Hamilton can be difficult. "When we first came into Hamilton," Waterloo-based developer Hugh Hicks remembers, "other people told us, 'Stay away. Hard city to work in.'"

Even the province has had trouble in this town. In the late 1970s, the Bill Davis government wanted to give Hamilton a light rail transit system that would link its downtown and waterfront to the airport. The government saw it as a chance to test-market something it wanted to sell worldwide. But Hamilton was sure that if the province wanted to give it something like that, there must be something wrong with it. So it said no to a freebie that would have transformed the city. Needing a place to show off its system, the province wound up selling it to British Columbia for Expo 86. In Vancouver, they called it the SkyTrain.]

Don’t let the past short-sightedness from a previous time stop you from doing what is best for the city. What happened to Hamilton the Ambitious City?

I’m not letting the Province off the hook here either – Both Provincial and Municipal governments need to sit down and come to an agreement to get this done NOW, so that residents of Hamilton can enjoy an LRT system that is long overdue.

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