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Originally Posted by adam
A gateway is a route of passage - there is nothing sustainable about making a city into a passageway. Look at Main and King Streets, perfect examples of gateways. Is this really a sustainable model?
The majority of Hamiltonians - those living in the lower city - are working hard to turn Hamilton into a destination instead of just a passageway on to something else.
Thumbs down to Hamilton as a gateway. Thumbs up to Hamilton as a vibrant, sustainable destination.
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Instead of perpetuating ignorance based on false preconceptions, why not actually study the concept before making false assumptions on what is meant by a Gateway strategy?
Read the study:
http://mitl.mcmaster.ca/documents/Ha...ay_Project.pdf
Adopting a gateway strategy is anything but simply making the city a passageway on to something else. It is about establishing the groundwork that will incubate industrial development (and redevelopment). This strategy dovetails neatly with the Innovation Park concept, and will be a major contributor to making Hamilton a vibrant, sustainable destination city.
BTW, Main and King are perfect examples of what is
not a gateway strategy. If you bothered to educate yourself on the concept you wouldn't dare to make such a ridiculous statement (ranks right up there with that idiotic 'nicotine is added to Tim Hortons coffee' theory you tried to sell sometime back). The strategy calls for truck traffic to be removed from urban settings and promotes high capacity public transit like LRT over personal automobile traffic. It calls for intensification of urban areas and a restraint to sprawl. Only a moron would consider these as undesireable qualities for our city.