Bratina is a fool. But he probably figures most of the people who voted for him are against it, so he must toot his old horn and there's no point educating himself.
And now we have editorials, like this one from the Stoney Creek News, pumping up the suburban inequality balloon and quoting the province's cancellation-excuse-oranges-to-apples-numbers...
"But despite the excitement from LRT supporters, it will be local taxpayers, especially those residents in the suburban areas, who are expected to pay the bulk of the project’s cost, while seeing limited benefits to their communities.
During the announcement, politicians attempted to salve opponents’ wounds by talking about LRT as the first phase of establishing the 25-year transportation network called BLAST that would stretch across the city from the Mountain, Ancaster, Dundas and Flamborough. But again, that utopian ideal remains embedded on paper, a project for another set of politicians.
Yet, it rankles that the bus rapid transit option, which would have provided a similar transit option for residents at lower cost than LRT and would have directly benefited a greater area of the Hamilton, has been summarily kicked to the curb.
Questions remain about how a project once estimated to cost $5.5 billion will now cost only $3.4 billion? Where is the rest of the cost for the project coming from? Or, for that matter, how were the project’s costs reduced? Can it attract enough riders to be viable without in additional investment in feeder transit lines?"
https://www.hamiltonnews.com/opinion...de-to-the-end/