[raisethehammer]

guys...there are 25, yes that's right TWENTY-FIVE lanes of east/west traffic on main streets from the base of the escarpment to Burlington Street. That's like 2-3 km wide. On the Mountain, all main streets are 1km apart. That means from Concession to Limeridge there are 12 lanes of east/west traffic. And that's a 3km wide swath.
One thing downtown Hamilton certainly can do is handle overflow traffic from King Street. Wilson/Hunter/Cannon all run right into the heart of downtown. We need to break out of this 1950's mindset that the city owes it to me to take me directly from my front door to the front door of my downtown office tower or shopping mall in 6 minutes flat.
Folks coming in from the east can jump up to Wilson/Cannon at Sherman Ave. Its like 500 feet from King to Wilson.
Put through trucks on our ring-road highways to free up even more road capacity.
We could convert them all to two-way, put LRT on Main, bike lanes on Wilson/Cannon/Charlton and be a more successful, vibrant, easy to get around city.