05-11-2018, 01:05 PM
(05-11-2018, 12:38 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: If we can't fix things like the current Stop LRT group talking about not invading the village of Preston in the City of Cambridge, taking it one step further doesn't exactly convince me, even though I'm generally onside. The region still feels (like many cities) too factionalized. Everyone loves the idea of being able to get where they are going faster, but nobody wants one more car, bike, or pedestrian near their neighbourhood. We all love the green belt, but heaven help us if LRT should go near our neighbourhood, or a three-storey or multi-unit dwelling go up in a current single family home enclave.
To me it's just a bad idea for the area. I haven't seen anything positive from amalgamation in any area really. Most people think it will provide us with efficiencies even though almost all amalgamation's have been really inefficient.
The other reason seems to be that it will be easier for businesses, yet we have great economic numbers for both the size of our region and compared to the rest of Ontario. So maybe what we have is actually working out very well? We have one of the highest employment rates, the lowest percentage of people living on low-income and the highest median and average wages in Canada. Maybe economists should look at Kitchener-Waterloo to see why we are doing so well and I wonder how much that has to do with the fact that two cities gives us a diversity of employment.