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After extensions, the goal appears to be fast crosstown travel, as well as fast mountain-to-downtown travel.

Mixed traffic section is tiny via the big picture.

(For proportional comparison -- lines not necessarily representative of final route)

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Which might even disappear altogether if James St N someday pedestrianizes, for example.
 

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This (yes) stupidly silly politicking over reaffirming the LRT doesn't (nope) mean the LRT disappears from Hamilton, as suggested by these (yes) chicken-little article titles.

Similar sheningiams have also come from both Brampton and Toronto. There is still much more unified support for LRT than on Brampton's city concil.

But, yes, keep tuned.
 
Not sure one has to regularly reaffirm something in Hamilton. If you keep voting again and again on the same thing, sooner or later, something will go wrong.

On the bright side, perhaps now the money can be used on one of the Wave 2 projects with more demand - like the DRL.
 
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Not sure one has to regularly reaffirm something in Hamilton. If you keep voting again and again on the same thing, sooner or later, something will go wrong.
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That's the way things work in Hamilton. When a topic seems like its all said and done, bring it up again, and again, and again until the topic is beaten to death and every single Councillor gets tired of beating the topic
 
Another Brampton and time the Province start forcing these plans by giving Metrolinx the power to do so since they are paying for it in the first place.

Vote on Hamilton LRT delayed again
 
This circus is keeping a lot of us busy. Dammit, yep.

On a positive note: Meanwhile, I wrote an article on my tour of Kitchener-Waterloo ION LRT, on behalf of Hamilton. Also got to meet two mayors (Kitchener, Waterloo) and the MPP for Cambridge.

www.raisethehammer.org/article/2959

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Also went to last night's Ward 1 consultation:

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Mostly symbolic, but very damaging to public perception which can bite Hamilton come 2018 in either direction. It is a circus. It's Barnum&Bailey, but another resident claims I've mistaken a circus for a dumpster fire. Still theatrics. I disgress.

Actions are being planned, we're not being distracted. Some people I know have already been on the media already.

Behind the scenes, LRT planning merrily continues.
Many consultations, etc. City staff working full throttle on LRT.

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Gee!!! existing buses can be relocated to other routes, but will increase operation cost once the LRT operation cost is part of the system cost. It also allow to defers buying buses to replace buses due to retire, depending on the age of the buses being relocated.

Councillors continue to debate merits of LRT
 
Regardless of bus allocation -- A major bus fleet expansion is required anyway -- and I'd support the arrival of a bus garage to allow a large HSR bus fleet expansion.
 
Hamilton is an utter mess; just when someone excellent steps into the head of transit post, they leave because even they cant deal with the dysfunctional Hamilton City Counsil. David Dixon will be leaving the HSR in June, and it's hard to imagine that politics was not a factor here. This is a guy who knows how politics can mess with transit plans as he came from the TTC, but apparently the politics in the City of Hamilton is even a bigger mess compared to Toronto. They might as well beg Don Hull to step back into the post and set transit back another 20 years.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/hamilton-s-head-of-transit-is-leaving-the-city-1.3597365

Additionaly, Kathleen Wynne is now speaking on the LRT matter and deep down she's probably happy with Hamilton's indecision since it will save the province money.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/wynne-surprised-by-lrt-debate-1.3598303
 
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Hamilton is an utter mess; just when someone excellent steps into the head of transit post, they leave because even they cant deal with the dysfunctional Hamilton City Counsil. David Dixon will be leaving the HSR in June, and it's hard to imagine that politics was not a factor here. This is a guy who knows how politics can mess with transit plans as he came from the TTC, but apparently the politics in the City of Hamilton is even a bigger mess compared to Toronto. They might as well beg Don Hull to step back into the post and set transit back another 20 years.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/hamilton-s-head-of-transit-is-leaving-the-city-1.3597365
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Dixon's departure is quite political, but not quite in the manner that you envisioned.

While it was a bit of a surprise, it was often felt inside Hamilton that his hire was not appropriate for the City. He was apparently rather antagonistic towards staff, to the point where a number of long-tenured senior staff had left in the past year. His management style is quite "in your face" and aggressive, and that same style is what lead him to leaving the TTC.

It seems like his departure is being well-received within HSR, and should lead to a substantial improvement in morale.

Dan
Toronto, Ont.
 
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