Statement by Kevin Delaney
I’ve been a bartender in this city for 15 years and I’ve come to realize that Hamilton is a city of pockets: Westdale, Dundurn, Locke St, James St, Wentworth, Gage Park, Ottawa St... you get the idea. Travelling between these pockets, whether for work or for pleasure, is tough without a car. HSR is great, but can be infrequent during off hours and outright late during peak hours. An LRT system would change the way people interact with these pockets. Instead of being forced to visit one pocket at a time, it would be easy to have lunch on James St N, shop on Ottawa, then head to Locke St for dinner. Greater accessibility means more thriving businesses, and less cars on Main and King will mean that businesses can at long last flourish there too! And it will mean a wider pool of labour for businesses, as living in one pocket and working in another would be easier than ever! LRT isn’t just the environmentally responsible thing to do, it’s also the socially responsible thing to do; it’ll be the strong connective tissue Hamilton has deserved for decades!
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