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Council has voted dozens of times since 2008 to advance Hamilton's light rail transit (LRT) project, including voting to submit the plan with a full funding request to the Province in 2013, and voting to accept full funding and implementation from the Province in 2015. Do you support completing the LRT plan? Why or why not?
Responses to the question: "Council has voted dozens of times since 2008 to advance Hamilton's light rail transit (LRT) project, including voting to submit the plan with a full funding request to the Province in 2013, and voting to accept full funding and implementation from the Province in 2015. Do you support completing the LRT plan? Why or why not?"
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2 Candidate Responses (top)
| Ward 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Brief Response | Full Response |
| Marley, Kevin | Yes | Yes, LRT is important for a growing city such as Hamilton. It will help people lower their carbon footprint as well as make it easier to get around the city. On top of that, it will make it easier for people to travail to other destinations outside Hamilton such as Toronto by giving them a timely option to catch go trains. |
| Scime, John | Yes | Yes. Each time I weigh the pros and cons of the project (and there are) I continue to come back to “We don’t know how to be a big city. We are afraid to grow up”. The LRT is the right choice for various reasons, and to draw it back to Ward 12 it is fundamentally about density and slowing urban development. Implementing the LRT solution we will create density in an area that can manage density and provide affordable housing for those who the LRT will attract. We will not need to plow through agricultural land to gain residential tax dollars that this city desperately needs. This first phase of the project is vital to the ALine. I have been a supporter of the ALine from the beginning. It’s a great opportunity to provide very quick service from the GO to the Airport (another vital component to our growth) and have commuters utilize this service instead of sitting on the 403, LINC, or Red Hill. As I stated, Ancaster has the Meadowlands retail complex (TLine) and Duff’s Corner Retail complex and Ancaster Business Park which would be the SLINE. The completion of these lines would drive business to each part of the city. |
Response Summary (top)
| Brief Response | Count | % of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 2 | 100.0% |
| No | 0 | 0.0% |
| Maybe | 0 | 0.0% |
3 Candidates Have Not Responded (top)
| Ward 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Bell, Mike | ||
| Ferguson, Lloyd | ||
| Reis, Miranda | ||
