LRT will help move us into a more sustainable future.
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Transit investment is critical to attracting young workers and employers to Hamilton.
Improved GO service was one factor which brought us to Hamilton 20 years ago as a young couple. Soon our life and work were in Hamilton instead of commuting.
If we want to attract young people today -- with their energy, enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirt -- then we must get moving on LRT. Millennials will settle in cities that have transit infrastructure and employers will move with them. Once they they settle in a community, they're locked in for 20 years.
Yes, there will be pain during construction. Visionary people understand short-term pain for long-term gain.
Investments happening in downtown Hamilton are directly related to LRT. LRT in Kitchener-Waterloo is an important factor in the expansion of knowledge companies like Google and Shopify there.
We must invest in LRT or Hamilton will lose a generation of talented young workers to other more visionary cities. Many of their parents will follow.
Enough of the games. Move our city forward now.
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The Light Rail Presentation
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back on LRT
Candidates at both levels need to hear loud and clear that you support LRT and you expect the Province and City to keep their promises and finish building this thing.
Continue with Current LRT Procurement Model
Hamilton Light Rail (HLR) urges City Council to continue with the current Light Rail Transit (LRT) procurement model that Council already accepted under the Memorandum of Agreement with Metrolinx on February 10, 2016.
You made this happen!
Dundas Councillor Arlene VanderBeek best captured the spirit of last night's historic Council vote for the LRT project: "If you're not sure, err on the side of progress."
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