Take the HSR Challenge is a challenge to LRT decision makers, especially city councillors, to park their vehicles and depend on the Hamilton Street Railway for one month. Hamilton, like many communities across Canada, is struggling with aging infrastructure, especially roads and highways that are crumbling through heavy traffic use and the effects of the seasons. ......
Public transportation serv
es as a viable and visionary means to address some of the challenges before our society: energy conservation, health effects of pollution and obesity, climate change etc. ......
The option of Light Rail Transit has come before the Hamilton people and the people of Hamilton have responded with enthusiasm. The public has come to recognize that LRT and investment in public transportation should be a priority in moving Hamilton, from Binbrook to Waterdown, forward into prosperity. ......
City councilors and others who hold important decision-making roles in the development process are not the users of the current system and are thus inadequately informed of the importance of the LRT to not only economic growth in Hamilton but to the daily quality of life of each and every Hamiltonian. .......
The Take the HSR for a Month Challenge is directed at city councilors and decision-makers who do not use the HSR to park their cars and take the bus back and forth to work and all their civic duties and appointments and social events in their private lives. ......
Transit users, who vote and pay taxes, need their representatives to understand their concerns and the importance of a reliable and efficient transit system to the communities they serve.
