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I don't know how @mdrejhon puts up with this shit.


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Of any city in Ontario, I really hope Hamilton gets it right. Just looking at Google Maps, downtown Hamilton has an excellent street grid and urban fabric. Hamilton is very lucky in that regard compared to other cities in Ontario and even Canada/USA.

The city has the seeds of a potentially succesful urban city and major Canadian urban centre if you ask me. Imagine if all those parking lots downtown were developed into mid-density housing with street-level retail. The optimist in me says that the LRT can activate that revitalization and spearhead Hamilton's move towards an urban direction in the 21st century.

Plus, a succesful Hamilton would hopefully spur competition in the region and force Toronto to do better.
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The good bones were always there- the problem, like in Toronto, is with a urban-suburban split in the city council. Another thank-you to Mike Harris's continuing legacy.
 
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The good bones were always there- the problem, like in Toronto, is with a urban-suburban split in the city council. Another thank-you to Mike Harris's continuing legacy.
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it is funny that you mention that because my vague recollection of the situation in amalgamation into one city from the former Regional Municipality of Hamilton Wentworth is that it was the urban city of Hamilton that was in favour of, and pushing for, the amalgamation and it was the suburban towns (Ancaster, Stoney Creek) and rural areas that were opposed to it. So, while it was finally ordered by QP after protracted negotiations couldn't convince the less urban areas to say "yes", in this case urban Hamilton got exactly what they wanted.
 
King and Main Streets were both maintained by Hamilton-Wentworth, and the HSR was a regional service, like YRT, or the TTC in the Metro era. I doubt things would be much different without amalgamation in this case, at least.
 
I'm worried that we're going to be suffering through another Wynne term because of the LRTs springing up across Ontario. It seems that the construction of all of these projects were strategically timed to make it look like she's competent just in time for the election
 
Ontario's biggest ever LRT rally!

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Not just that -- Multiple people who saw that rally, confirms it was bigger than Toronto.

Damn impressive, especially as it was raining -- and on a holiday weekend that many people were away on vacation.

Estimates varied all over the place, with 250-300 near beginning and near end, but briefly peaking at 500 during the middle of the rally at around 12:45pm, with multiple people estimating numbers ranging between 420 and 500. There was a bit of crowd churn (people coming, people going) due to weather, as not everyone stayed the whole rally, but the crowd certainly peaked just before 1pm.

Regardless, on a relative size basis, just comparing crowd mass (by the few who's been to the Transit City Rally too) it was bigger than Transit City 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not bad for Hamilton, a smaller city -- during rain -- and during a long Easter-getaway weekend.

As a point of reference, Toronto’s biggest rally was the 2010 Transit City rally, and for Kitchener-Waterloo’s biggest was the 2011 Rally-For-Rails.

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mdrejhon said:
Ontario's biggest ever LRT rally!
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TheSpec article estimates 500:
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/7...t-rally-injects-fuel-into-project-s-approval/
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That's all good. But if crowd size really mattered, then the women's march in Washington would have changed the course of the Trump administration (which it didn't). Because ultimately it's the politicians in power who get to decide, and that rally is not gonna stop Patrick Brown or others from scuttling the project if they choose to do so.
 
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anyone willing to do the math on the poll based on accurate demographics?

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Reweighted it according to demographics and it actually makes the poll results even more in disapproval.

That said, the sample sizes of some demographics is too small to really be accurate.
 
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