The McMaster Students’ Union is stepping up its advocacy ahead of another important light rail transit meeting at Hamilton City Hall.
The students’ union is encouraging the university’s 22,000 undergraduates to email city councillors, and it is providing them with one of three form letters.
MSU vice-president Blake Oliver says one letter is directed at the six councillors who publicly support Hamilton’s LRT project asking them to “reaffirm” their support, while another is directed at five vocal LRT opponents asking them to “reconsider” their position.
The third form letter seeks support from five councillors who are “publicly undecided,” Ward 6’s Tom Jackson, Stoney Creek’s Doug Conley and Maria Pearson, Robert Pasuta of Flamborough and Arlene Vanderbeek of Dundas.
Oliver notes that McMaster students rely heavily on public transit during their years at the university, but she stresses that a modern and accessible system is also critical to keeping them in Hamilton to live and work after they graduate.
City council will meet next Wednesday, April 19 to decide the fate of the proposed rapid transit line’s updated environmental assessment.
The provincial government has committed to funding the $1-billion cost of building the LRT line, which is to stretch for 11 kilometres from McMaster University to the Queenston Traffic Circle.
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