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The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area has some of the worst traffic congestion in North America. What, if anything, will you do to alleviate the gridlock?
Responses to the question: "The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area has some of the worst traffic congestion in North America. What, if anything, will you do to alleviate the gridlock?"
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5 Candidate Responses (top)
| Hamilton Centre | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Brief Response | Full Response |
| Andrea Horwath | Yes | The cost of congestion in the GTA is $5 billion annually. Ontario’s NDP recognizes that we need to provide convenient and affordable transit options to busy Ontario families by putting transit plans back on track.
In the coming weeks, we’ll be announcing more on our plans to tackle the gridlock issue. |
| Christopher Lawson | Yes | Our major highways of the 400 series can safely perform their task 20% faster. Congestion is carried out of town by these highways. Good drivers know that it is safest to drive calmly with the flow of the traffic. We all know what that speed is on our 400 series highways. The speed limit should be 120 km/hr. Good drivers should not be penalized for going 120 km/hr on these highways that were actually designed to sustain these speeds. |
| Michael Baldasaro | Yes | Promote Go and local Transit, Light Rail included. |
| Peter Ormond | Yes | The Green Party is investing large amounts of money into ride sharing, public transportation and improvements to the community to make it more accessible to walkers and cyclists. These ideas all stand behind the idea of eliminating gridlock and taking more cars off the road. The Green Party also supports the idea of Light Rail Transit in Hamilton which will improve public transportation and reduce gridlock.
This is the 21st century! We're too smart to be sitting in traffic jams of cars with only one person in each vehicle. |
| Robert Kuhlmann | Yes | Allow companies a level playing field to produce economically and environmentally viable alternatives by removing all government subsidies that create an artificially unfair advantage to some forms of transport over others. Before the days of gridlock, we had private rail lines running to Guelph, Georgetown, and Mohawk raceway just to name a few. As long as they turned a profit, they existed and flourished. Gridlock was unheard of, it's a modern phenomenon that only came about after the government began a policy of heavily subsidizing the creation of our current infrastructure. It is only once the government started using taxpayers money to underwrite the automobile by creating vast highway systems that gridlock occurred. Gridlock is a consequence of a lack of competition in the marketplace. There is only so much space one can use for roads and highways. More subsidized roads is not the answer, it'll only worsen the problem by using up more land to encourage even more gridlock. We need to create an economic environment where viable alternatives can once again flourish. |
Response Summary (top)
| Brief Response | Count | % of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 5 | 100.0% |
| No | 0 | 0.0% |
| Maybe | 0 | 0.0% |
5 Candidates Have Not Responded (top)
| Hamilton Centre | ||
|---|---|---|
| Anthony Gracey | ||
| Don Sheppard | ||
| Donna Tiqui-Shebib | ||
| Robert Szajkowski | ||
| Steven Passmore | ||
