Andrea Horwath says she’s “really worried” that Hamilton’s light-rail transit (LRT) will be a private operation that places the bottom line over the needs of residents.
The Ontario NDP leader and Hamilton Centre MPP discussed the project in a Facebook Live interview Wednesday with CBC Hamilton.
Horwath said she’s concerned about plans to make LRT a private-public partnership, or P3. The $1 billion system should be publicly owned and operated, she said.
“If the service is about providing value to private interest, how do we make sure it’s Hamiltonians’ interests that are at the top of the agenda?”