04-20-2017, 09:22 AM
(04-20-2017, 08:54 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: Hamilton has already decided to build the LRT. The objections now are just pure political pandering and grandstanding based on lies and falsehoods. There is not at this point a good-faith debate to be held. City council should simply approve the environmental report and move on (unless there are legitimate issues with the report that should be corrected before moving to the next step).
On the other hand, if the alternative was a no vote this week, then deferral is great. I assume the antis, or most of them, know they are pandering, so maybe they can be convinced that doing the right thing won’t cost them their job at the next election.
Just to be clear, it’s possible in general to be legitimately anti-LRT (or anti- any particular project), but not in good faith in a city council vote in Hamilton right now at this particular point in this particular process.
Some politicians are grandstanding because there will be municipal elections next year. And they're afraid. Most of my extended family live in Hamilton and not one supports the LRT. Most live on the mountain and see no benefits of an LRT below the mountain.