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Statement by Andy Coltman

Dear Elected Officials,

To be honest, I've put off writing this note over the past number of weeks simply because I can't believe I'm having to.

Please stand by the multiple previous expert reviews, endorsements, and unanimous Council and community reviews that have already looked at, and endorsed, pursuing the proposed initial, and future, LRT plans for Hamilton.

Please don’t squander this chance for significant Provincial investment to improve car-alternative transportation in Hamilton and please, again, don’t miss out on this opportunity to renew aging infrastructure that will have to be dealt with anyway as part of this larger, largely Provincially funded, initiative (traffic and businesses along the LRT route will need to be disrupted to pave roads and repair sewers eventually anyway!).

Please ensure that the Provincially funded LRT project, as proposed and budgeted for, gets underway as soon as possible and turn your attention to ensuring that the operating agreements, zoning, and infrastructure renewal opportunities it presents are all considered to maximize the project’s on-going and peripheral upsides for our City.

Hamilton is on the cusp of (or well into) a significant renewal of its lower City. This will have major impacts on our tax base and allow more sustainable financing of the urban (and suburban) needs our City faces. Please don’t allow trolling naysayers and narrow-mined parochialism to stand in the way of projects that might assist this uplift.

I hope you will support the LRT.

Thank you.

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