Hurontario/Main St LRT

Brampton does need LRT just not up Main St. Run it up Kennedy which may help revitalize that area.

One transit route does not magically make drivers become transit users. A well funded, well maintained system, city-wide, can make drivers become transit users. The funds would be much better spent in marginal investments across the City, particularly in the new far reaches of the City, where the allure of the car is strongest. The current route of the LRT contains large chunks that either cannot be developed on (low-lying parkland) or are unlikely to be redeveloped (Main Street South housing). To build an LRT through this area on the hopes that one can shove a university into the downtown is wasteful. A university in a tower is not likely to attract students. The Minister of Transportation himself admits in the Brampton Guardian interview that people commute east-west. This route services few.

This cannot run up Main street as there is no place for the cars as it is. What a terrible impact on the downtown business core this would have.

Sure hopes this works

Do not run this up main street into dt brampton, look at the alternate rout.

YES YES YES!!!!

I cannot support an LRT route that will remove street parking on Main street. Downtown businesses need convenient parking to bring customers in. For better or worse, Brampton was built around the car. Starry-eyed predictions about LRT use won't change this fact. An alternative route such at the George St. loop or valley lands should stay on the table. Our fledgling downtown will be hurt by the Main street surface route.

I consider myself a well informed resident of our fair city, but even I have been frustrated trying to find answers to what I consider not just simple questions, but questions that I feel our civic leaders (are you listening Ms. Jeffrey), should have the answers to. Here is just one example: What is the Economic Impact this proposed route would have on Brampton??? And let's not forget, THAT is the reasoning behind having the LRT in the first place. Look at these sections and please tell me what is in it for Brampton in terms of Economic Development potential?? (407/Hyw. 10 to Charolais Blvd.) (Charolais to Nanwood Dr,) (Harold St. to Gage Park) Look, I am all for the LRT, just not the proposed North/South Route. Guess I am just tired of getting whatever crumbs are left over once Mississauga has eaten the cake.

While we do need an LRT in Brampton, a route down Main St. is ill-advised. It does not serve the majority of Brampton's citizens, many of whom take transit from the Bramalea GO station, not the downtown station. It will also jeopardize the businesses along Main St. The construction period alone will destroy, not reinvigorate, the downtown core. If the LRT stopped at Steeles, the Main St. Heritage Conservation District would be safe from encroachment and expansion to Sheridan College in the future would be possible. Taking the LRT straight down Main St. makes sense for Mississauga, not Brampton, and the citizens of Brampton deserve a transportation system that works for them.

The proposed LRT route does nothing to alleviate traffic issues in Brampton. LRT done right is a good thing for Brampton, this is NOT the right plan. I do NOT support this plan.

Not sure who this route is intended to move and to where. LRT is a good idea, the proposed route NOT.

Please do not run a surface LRT through the downtown core. Downtown Brampton is a beautiful, historic place, with increasing foot traffic thanks to all of the great revitalization. You have so many other great options that would benefit Brampton so much more. Please reconsider!

Downtown is dead. Unless there are plan to modernize it, then this train should make it way to other locations..

Why not sling Kennedy road? Once you destroy the centre of Brampton it will stay destroyed! Kennedy road gives options for future expansion and works better within the infrastructure without ruining the ONE central historic route to our beautiful city! PLEASE RECONSIDER!

Demonstrable benefit to the downtown core has not been demonstrated to justify upsetting historic neighbourhoods

For one we should look at European models: in many cities even cars are not permitted into the city Center to make shopping safe and preserves an authentic picture off the city core. Also: I would not appreciate our lovely farmers market interrupted due to the LRT

Find an alternative, this will not work!!

Right train..wrong route. The street is to narrow, the old buildings can't stand the shaking, the pedestrian death toll will be high..at least 10 per year. Try going up Kennedy a much better choice and more spacious for the stops. The more it is used the longer the train gets and more of a problem as more cars are added and more riff raff ride the trains. Keep the riff raff out of the nice neighborhoods., keep the noise out and the shaking. Save lives with a better route.

The LRT should not be allowed to run through the Heritage District and downtown area of Brampton to a train station that runs trains during the peak morning and evening hours only. The provincial government has recently confirmed that it may be many years before all day commuter trains run from Toronto through this station (promised since the '70's). However, the increased commuter traffic has been promised for the Bramalea station. The proposed LRT must be stopped at Steeles Avenue, rerouted, and not be allowed to ruin the downtown area. If you want to know what the LRT construction can do to an area such as our downtown, visit Eglinton Avenue near Bathurst. A once vibrant shopping lane is now full of empty store fronts. Do we want this for our downtown? Where will the snow be piled? Where will the bicycle riders go - with the LRT? The LRT's route is a bad idea for Brampton and seems to be a small concession to our city, with Mississauga getting more than the lion's share of the pot.

I do not support the LRT travelling through the downtown core of Brampton. The ridership would not support this action. It would be better served to have the LRT stop northbound at Steeles Ave. and then travel either east or west on Steeles Ave. to Kennedy Road then north to serve the new proposed medical building or west to better serve Sheridan College and the growing area to the west. The heritage district of Main Street, as noted by numerous consultants, cannot sustain such heavy construction and would cause serious damage to various buildings, especially St. Paul's United Church. I do not support the LRT travelling through one of the heritage areas of Brampton. Overhead wires, railway track, shifting from the centre of the road to the curb side, visual pollution. The vehicular and bicycle (electric and standard) traffic would be horrendous especially where the tracks would change to the curb side. Quiet residential streets would become thoroughfares causing more potential danger and hazards for the residents and pedestrians. I do not support the LRT travelling through downtown Brampton.