Statement by Deborrah Sherman

I am a mountain resident who does not use public transportation within the city of Hamilton, but who does regularly use it to travel to my Toronto job and use transit within that city.
Despite not using Hamilton's HSR system, I am fully in favour of enhanced transit service within the city. We need LRT as well as a system of bike lanes and complete streets to make moving around Hamilton safer, more affordable, less congested and better for the environment.
My "need" to get downtown or through town quickly should not take precedence over these values, and I do not feel entitled to demand that residents in areas like Aberdeen, for example, be denied complete and safe streets so that I can speed through and endanger them in my rush to get where I want to go. I can slow down and leave a minute or two earlier.
Hamilton has already made the decisions to proceed with LRT. Please do not allow certain councilors to "derail" this the way they have delayed or stonewalled other projects, (eg the decision to create bike lanes).

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