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Originally Posted by fastcarsfreedom
This is absolutely classic--years of complaints of no funding for the city for transit and now you don't want the money they are providing?
Did anyone open their eyes and realize that these debates over where these new services will go are really good problems to have?
The self-loathing, negative, entitled attitude that permeates every discussion here really is indicitive of the vocal minority that has long existed in Hamilton and has held-back a true renaissance for decades. Government and private interests show up with money but this 'city' whether it's the NIMBY crowd or the political crowd insist that the money be spent "there way" or else they don't want it. It's utterly and completely unbelievable--what if this money were all going to Peel, York and Durham for BRT and nothing was coming to Hamilton--what would you be saying then?
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O my word..."holding back the renaissance"??
We've been too busy subdizing all the rich brats in the suburbs the past 30 years to be worrying about (or being able to afford) our 'renaissance'.
You made a bunch of comments here I don't agree with, but since you don't live here I won't bother.
I guess your idea of a renaissance is all the wonderful development along the Linc and 403 in Ancaster eh?? Don't worry..much more is coming on the east Mountain.
We're all stating our opinion on how 160 million should be spent...Hamilton is famous for wasting money (aka Red Hill). I realize you live in a casino town so wasting money is a regular past-time, but forgive some of us for actually wanting a proper transit system for Hamilton.
More citizens like the folks on this forum would do wonders at city hall...maybe then we'd see the seeds of a renaissance planted instead of more crap in the burbs on the backs of urban taxpayers.