East/West LRT through the Downtown - Page 4

raisethehammer · #61 Posted **Oct 24, 2008, 11:30 AM**

Lol....nice one.
Hmm, something must have been going on at Aberdeen. Maybe tons of people were getting off there?

SteelTown · #62 Posted **Oct 24, 2008, 11:47 AM**

Eastbound traffic on Aberdeen is bad. So that suggest people are exiting from 403 at Aberdeen instead of Main, likely all turning left on Queen.

raisethehammer · #63 Posted **Oct 24, 2008, 2:23 PM**

just go straight through to Bay and then go left. I've never seen it slow.

Jon Dalton · #64 Posted **Oct 24, 2008, 5:01 PM**

No problems getting home on the GO lately

highwater · #65 Posted **Oct 24, 2008, 6:37 PM**

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Eastbound traffic on Aberdeen is bad. So that suggest people are exiting from 403 at Aberdeen instead of Main, likely all turning left on Queen.

The day I took Aberdeen as an alternate, traffic started slowing down on King W near Longwood. I then proceeded to crawl up Longwood suggesting that much of the traffic was trying to avoid Main. I took Bay back down to Main. Took about 45 minutes to get from King and Longwood to Bay and Aberdeen.

Millstone · #66 Posted **Oct 24, 2008, 11:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by highwater

The day I took Aberdeen as an alternate, traffic started slowing down on King W near Longwood. I then proceeded to crawl up Longwood suggesting that much of the traffic was trying to avoid Main. I took Bay back down to Main. Took about 45 minutes to get from King and Longwood to Bay and Aberdeen.

Almost worth it to get off at Hwy 6, come down around to York Blvd and get to where you're going from there.

highwater · #67 Posted **Oct 25, 2008, 2:13 PM**

Unfortunately I was coming from Westdale. Main and Longwood are your only options.

raisethehammer · #68 Posted **Oct 25, 2008, 5:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by highwater

Unfortunately I was coming from Westdale. Main and Longwood are your only options.

nope...get off at Hwy6, take your first right, right again to York Blvd and viola.

omro · #69 Posted **Oct 31, 2008, 2:32 PM**

I'm going to put this here, because I want to encourage a few more votes

, as well as a bit of debate.

Highwater told me yesterday that, when the streetcar was taken out to Westdale, the developer paid for it.

That got me thinking... so here's an idea...

Why don't the "people of Hamilton", perhaps even starting with a group like Hamilton Light Rail, form an independent corporation dedicated to obtaining funding from alternative sources and building an LRT how the "people" want it built? By-pass the local and provincial government bodies and their agendas.

Perhaps that's a bit "out there" for 2008

adam · #70 Posted **Oct 31, 2008, 4:03 PM**

How can we convince a family with a 2 car garage that LRT is a viable alternative for transportation? Everyone's comments in the past few weeks are "golly gee, gas is sooo cheap now!"

omro · #71 Posted **Nov 12, 2008, 10:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by adam

How can we convince a family with a 2 car garage that LRT is a viable alternative for transportation? Everyone's comments in the past few weeks are "golly gee, gas is sooo cheap now!"

Well, gas is only cheap for periods of time, the cost will rise again and when it does, it will probably rise steeply.

Anyway, my idea was just a thought

ryan_mcgreal · #72 Posted **Nov 12, 2008, 2:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by adam

How can we convince a family with a 2 car garage that LRT is a viable alternative for transportation? Everyone's comments in the past few weeks are "golly gee, gas is sooo cheap now!"

LRT projects introduced in the 1990s and early 2000s, when gas was much cheaper than it is today, were still highly successful at attracting new riders.

adam · #73 Posted **Nov 12, 2008, 10:05 PM**

good point.

omro · #74 Posted **Nov 27, 2008, 12:39 PM**

I'm liking the fact that both tracks on Main seems to be the clear leader in this little poll.

I'm wondering if there will be any form of public poll/referendum on this matter?

omro · #75 Posted **Apr 18, 2009, 12:28 AM**

So both lanes on Main have totally and definitively been dropped?

adam · #76 Posted **Apr 18, 2009, 2:16 PM**

While they have the shovels in the ground for LRT construction, why not update the 1950's style 1-ways too? We should look to other urban centres in North America - when they do updates on the road system, they are not converting to 1-way streets... so why are we working so hard to maintain ours?

markbarbera · #77 Posted **Apr 18, 2009, 2:26 PM**

Two-way conversion of King and Main is already being planned. No one is working hard to maintain them as one-way.

Millstone · #78 Posted **Apr 18, 2009, 3:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by adam

While they have the shovels in the ground for LRT construction, why not update the 1950's style 1-ways too? We should look to other urban centres in North America - when they do updates on the road system, they are not converting to 1-way streets... so why are we working so hard to maintain ours?

The 1-ways aren't even maintained that well, save for the resurfacing of Main at Queen to Dundurn last year. There isn't a road except RHVP that's truly in great shape the whole length here, regardless of its traffic pattern.

adam · #79 Posted **Apr 18, 2009, 4:11 PM**

When LRT goes in they will have to resurface the road, repaint lines, rework traffic lights, etc So its a perfect opportunity to convert to 2-way.
This would be the most cost effective time to do the conversions, while shovels are already in the ground.

ps - completely off topic, but just to reply to Millstone's comment on road maintenance: the streets on the major arteries in Hamilton are in fantastic shape. Take a trip to Toronto or Vancouver or any other major city sometime and do a comparison. And those cities are thriving.

omro · #80 Posted **Apr 18, 2009, 5:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by omro

So both lanes on Main have totally and definitively been dropped?

Sorry, I wasn't talking about two way traffic, though that would be great. I meant two way LRT on Main.