Do you support the city's plan to build an east-west light rail transit (LRT) line with full capital funding from the Province?

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Candidate	Brief Response	Full Response
Knowles, Steven	No	As it stands, i do not support an east-west LRT plan. I believe in increased transit service but i don't believe LRT is the way for Hamilton at this time. I prefer the BRT system under a P3 model. Whether the province pays for the contruction or not, future maintance and work will rely on ridership and city contributions. The BRT system is more cost effective and will offer the most flexiablity as our city grows. As well, The citys overall plan includes many areas of development running north through south. In saying this, the provincial dollars seem wasted under an east-west plan.
Stewart, Scott	No	I'm certain based on more current comments that Councillors have backed off on LRT support as it stands now. My business & government experience have me concerned regarding what the Province will fund. I'm in support, at this time, of something more in line with a Transportation plan that includes aspects of the Rapid Ready Report. I believe that utilizing additional bus routes to areas of increased population is useful, that adding express buses to say the B Line and elsewhere is a more flexible improvement to transit along that corridor and that the City is more likely to obtain significant, firm funding for such an approach than LRT. Having worked in Toronto for over a decade, I've seen how a tracked system still controlled by traffic lights creates congestion.

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Pasuta, Robert