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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
Hamilton has slowly been raising taxes to address the state of good repair, I believe it's at 0.5% a year, but it's not nearly enough. Still, it has a sort of 'snowball' effect which adds up over the years. Between 2020 and 2030 the city will basically double the amount of money it spends on road reconstructions.
The LRT has the bonus of paying for a lot (though not nearly enough) of those reconstructions itself by rebuilding 14km of the City's largest arterials as well as many other streets. the original LRT scope had reconstruction and resurfacing of many other streets downtown to accommodate traffic shifts from the LRT. IIRC Metrolinx was paying for York Boulevard to be rebuilt to be widened back out to 6 lanes to accommodate shifted traffic from the LRT, for example, but that was nixed with the cancellation. We'll have to see what happens with it now.
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That's still part of the plan according to staff. Though in my opinion unnecessary. It will only include 3 lanes Westbound, while the eastbound will leave 2 lanes for a bi-directional cycle track.
The item I'm most interested in as a secondary project was the part of funding that was going to pay for moving the Go terminal to the corner of McMasters campus to align with the LRT.
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