Statement by Aaron Strong

Hamilton is in desperate need of an infrastructure overhaul. Gone are the days when every person owned a car and wished to drive everywhere. This is no longer a reality in urban centers and we need to address this as a city.

While some councilors are dragging their feet on LRT, claiming it in no way benefits their ward, the city as a whole must be considered. Transit infrastructure in the suburbs will never be a viable option as long as connections remain long or non-existent. The LRT may not directly serve any mountain routes, but it will benefit mountain transit users through improved connections and reallocation of buses from downtown to other areas.

It is shameful that council is showing resistance to this project after voting for it so many times, and it is particularly frustrating that councilors have all of a sudden appeared to change their long-held views on sidewalks and bike lanes to pretend as if they are cooperating with the city planning process. Issues should have long since been voiced and addressed, and it is embarrassing to me, a life-long Hamiltonian, that council holds such backward views for our city. Hamilton is the butt of so many jokes, and it will remain as such as long as this farce of a city council continues to operate.

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