Rapid Transit

[ScreamingViking]

One more point about an elevated walkway system: the buildings that are attached need to include interior corridors for the flow-through. So office and residential buildings must be designed to account for that, and it may not be easy to retrofit many of them if we ever wanted to build such a network in Hamilton.

I don't know why we'd want to. I agree with Innsertnamehere -- functionally they're the same as an underground, but they also take people off the street. We don't have the climate and weather issues to warrant them.

If Hamilton wanted to protect pedestrians, a series of connected awnings above the busiest sidewalks would be the cheapest and easiest thing to implement, while keeping the shops and services and restaurants closely accessible to those people.