[hamtransithistory]

Couple of nitpicks about this paragraph

"Even the province has had trouble in this town. In the late 1970s, the Bill Davis government wanted to give Hamilton a light rail transit system that would link its downtown and waterfront to the airport. The government saw it as a chance to test-market something it wanted to sell worldwide. But Hamilton was sure that if the province wanted to give it something like that, there must be something wrong with it. So it said no to a freebie that would have transformed the city. Needing a place to show off its system, the province wound up selling it to British Columbia for Expo 86. In Vancouver, they called it the SkyTrain."

1) There was a demo version of this line already, its called the Scarborough RT
2) Although it may have eventually been expanded so that it was 'waterfront to the airport', back then it was more 'Downtown to Limeridge'
3) I've seen the final designs, and its good that it wasn't built. It turned out that the RT cars required a wider turning radius than was originally claimed, so had the line been built there would have been trouble with the downtown loop. We probably would have had to rebuild the line twice; once in the mid 80s to deal with the problems when they were originally discovered, and again about now because the original cars would be wearing out and the replacements require even larger curve radii.

But other than this paragraph, I think the article is spot on.