Fred Eisenberger and LRT

Premier Kathleen Wynne: Eisenberger updated the crowd on LRT, the Pan Am Games, the state of Hamilton downtown and the city rising housing prices. "It'll be like the Big Dig," Eisenberger said, referring to a pricey Boston highway and transit project. "There'll be a lot of upset, but at the end of the day, we'll wonder why we didn't do it 25 years ago." Eisenberger talked up LRT to the crowd of 50 at the Waterfront Centre, according to CBC. And it been a common subject in Hamilton this year. That was Mayor Fred Eisenberger message for business leaders during a Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association breakfast on Tuesday. On May 26, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced $1.2 billion for transit in Hamilton, including $1 billion for an LRT line from McMaster University to the Queenston traffic circle, with a shorter line going to the James North GO station. Construction on LRT will start in 2018. The rest of the money is for the Centennial GO station. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.