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Originally Posted by bigguy1231
There are approximately 5,000 people per day that currently commute from Hamilton to Toronto using either rail or road. It's about an hour to an hour and a half commute at rush hour. Out side of the rush hours you can get from downtown Hamilton to downtown Toronto in 45 minutes.
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5,000 commuters out of a population of almost 10,000,000 people in the Golden Horsehoe is a drop in the bucket. Those times are also incredibly optimistic. I live in Calgary near Nose Hill Park. I work in the Foothills Industrial area 17 km away. The Deerfoot is the perfect route to take, and it makes for 3/4 of the commute. It still takes me 45 minutes to drive home from work, leaving at 330. The QEW would have far more vehicles, and considering the distance between Hamilton and Toronto is about 60km, you are probably looking at a daily rush hour commute of 3.5-4 hours. You may get to Toronto from Hamilton within 45 minutes if you leave at 430 in the morning, but in rush hour, even a 90 minute one-way commute sounds optimistic for a region that is approaching 10 million people.
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The Ontario government is predicting that the GTHA is going to grow by 3 million people by 2030. It is reasonable to assume that Hamilton will get their fair share of that population growth. As of the end of last year there are almost 10,000 condo and apartment units being built or proposed just in Hamilton's downtown. Then there is the housing developments on the periphery of the city. One alone will house 80,000 and another already being developed will have 50,000. They aren't building all of this housing for current residents, it will be for newcomers.
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None of that is relevant. Only population figures are relevant.
2014-17 CMA growth:
Winnipeg- 42,900
Hamilton 22,700