The province promised us light rail transit and they promised to pay for building it. It's time for City Council to fully commit to this incredible opportunity. If you think LRT is a priority, show your support.

Light Rail Presentation

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Here is the latest version of the Light Rail presentation for Hamilton. You can view the draft (in PDF):

Revision History

  • 2008/02/22 - Clean up style, improve flow of slides.
  • 2008/01/26 - Converted "Development ROI for Selected Lines" from miles to kilometres; added more points to "Why Light Rail is right for Hamilton"; provided more details on US projects and added some Canadian LRT examples.
  • 2008/01/03 - Reduced verbosity, simplified comparison graphs, fixed language to be more plain
  • 2007/12/04 - Added more technical details
  • 2007/11/18 - Added section on Light Rail in Hamilton, added comparison to old-fashioned streetcars, corrected tabular comparison to BRT.
  • 2007/11/15 - Formatted section and page headers, cleaned up page formats.

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Featured Statement

Are we seriously still debating this? TWO feasibility studies, one municipal and one provincial, have shown that the B-Line can support, and NEEDS an LRT line. Let's get it done!

- Matt Grande
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