Kikosewin Le Clair

Fund our Transit system

it is inconceivable to my why we do not have an excellent bus service that is cheap enough to encourage people to leave their cars at home and I suggest children should be free. If many older children could take a city bus to school instead of school buses the savings could be used toward transportation for all.People going to hospital appointments also could be free . taxes might have to be higher but if we all had better services all round there would be buy in. .

I also strongly object to the egg industry’s advertisements on the bus. It’s illegal for then to be marketed as healthy in some areas! They are second in cholesterol only to brains! If we want to not only reduce the HSR’s GG emissions as well as our own then we must address animal agriculture’s role in environmental degradation and our individual impacts.

Let’s kill the LRT and build the HSR!

I’ve been riding the HSR for years and still the same issues befall the system – bus pass-bys; squished passengers; bus infrequency on the fringes of the City after 7pm (in fact, after visiting my cousin in Toronto on a Sunday evening; leaving his place just before 10pm to Union Station to get a on the train to Aldershot then getting a bus back to Hamilton GO Centre arriving just after mid-night, only to find there are no busses on a Sunday night after mid-night going east. So, I walked home. (I know, people would say, I should have left earlier; my fault, yes) But, I think it would be good to have better coordination with the final GO buses coming into the City so people can get closer to home.) Most people would give up using the system, but maybe I’m just too stubborn. Plus I truly believe it is better to take public transit for a whole host of reasons — environmental; congestion / cuts down on fossil fuel consumption/pollution; don’t have to clean off a vehicle or find a parking place. But, if the City wants to really change things and actually get people to take the bus or ride public transit — it has to be convenient; an experience that’s not odious or crammed; and frequent (I think I’ve run marathons over the years running for the bus, because I know the next one won’t be for a while); the City wastes more time – and money – not getting it right and seems to continue a piecemeal approach. Rather, once and for all should make it a real priority investment – especially with the funds from upper levels of government like the federal gas tax monies. They are not meant to fix pot holes and create roads – use them for what they are ear-marked – for better, consistent and effective public transit – Fix the HSR!!! Thanks for listening.

Let’s move ahead !