text: As a Hamiltonian living directly on the proposed LRT line I am well aware that King Street, Hamilton's primary east-west traffic route, will be nothing but a huge excavated trough running the length of the project for the next 5 to 6 years. It will shut down the lower city core for that long. Most of the thousands of tenants and businesses along the route will leave due to the long term construction. Everyone I know along the route says they will likely depart the city. Look at what it's done to Waterloo and Eglinton West in Toronto. Talk about how to kill a city in one fell swoop. But don't kid yourselves, this has been a back room done deal pretty much since day one. I expect when they break ground this September I will be forced to leave as well. While the existing bus stops outside my door I would have to walk 5 blocks to catch the new "improved" LRT! What a joke! It is obviously designed by people who know nothing whatsoever about Hamilton. Shame on them!