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Statement by Mayor Fred Eisenberger on the Hamilton Light Rail Transit Project cost

August 7 2020

HAMILTON, ON - Earlier this year, the Province’s citizen-appointed Hamilton Transportation Task Force recommended Hamilton’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) project as the number one transit recommendation for the City of Hamilton.  The LRT project is the most-studied transit project in our city’s history, and we are now turning our minds to restarting our economy. The LRT will create thousands of jobs, economic uplift, increase affordable housing, cut CO2 emissions drastically and will be a legacy transportation project for our city.
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Open Letter to Premier Doug Ford on the cancellation of Hamilton’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) project

December 18 2019

HAMILTON, ON - Mayor Fred Eisenberger has issued an open letter to Premier Doug Ford expressing his disappointment with the Ontario government’s recent a cancellation of Hamilton’s Light Rail Transit (LRT) project and to request information on the Ford governments estimated costs of the project. December 18 Open Letter to Premier Ford re: LRT  (PDF,  875 KB) December 18, 2019
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Have your say on the City’s Draft Commercial/Mixed Use & Light Rail Transit (LRT) Zones – Wards 1 to 4

May 4 2016

HAMILTON, ON – May 4, 2016 – The City of Hamilton has developed Draft Commercial/Mixed Use and LRT Zones and invites the public to attend upcoming open houses for Wards 1 to 4. Additional public consultation for the remaining Wards will take place in the fall of 2016. The Draft Zones have been developed to implement the Urban Hamilton Official Plan. The public will have the opportunity to learn about the benefits of the draft zones and provide comments to City staff. Statutory Open Houses The hours for the open houses will be:
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Citizens’ Jury – Rapid Transit “LRT as City Building”

November 18 2015

Hamilton, ON – November 18, 2015 - The City Council appointed Citizens’ Jury on Transit will meet on November 25, 6:30 pm at Mohawk College in Room i109 for a presentation and discussion on the topic “LRT: How it Changes Cities”. The public is invited to attend this free event. This is the first of three meetings that the public is invited to attend. Presenters include transit experts from Calgary and Pittsburgh who will speak about their experience with Light Rail Transit.  The next public meetings will be held on December 2 at 6:30 pm and December 12 at 9:30 am.
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