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Assignment 4: Proposal for Light Rail Transit in Downtown Hamilton -- Resource List

Course code: Geography 1HB3
Course name: Human Geographies: City & Economy
Course date: Winter 2012

Maps and Air Photos || City Documents || Books || Newspapers and Journals || Webpages

 

Maps and Air Photos

Base map prepared for assignment use is available to save or print from the link below:

A paper master copy of this map is available for photocopying in the Map Collection.

City of Hamilton, Planning and Economic Development Department:

City of Hamilton, Geographic Information Services:

McMaster University Library Map Collection has modern city street maps, transit maps, topographic maps, campus plans and neighbourhood plans (Mills Library, Room 102). See the display set up for this class or ask staff for assistance.

 
Air photos of the Hamilton area 1919-2007. Use the index at http://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/airphotos/Home.htm to see what photos are available.
  • Photos before 1959 are linked directly to the index.
  • Photos from 1960 to present can be viewed in the Map Collection.

 

 City of Hamilton Documents

Transportation Master Plan (May 2007)
 
Draft Official Plan 1970 - The City of Hamilton - Rapid Transit
Hamilton Planning Dept., 1970.
McMaster University Library call number CA4ONHBLQ60 70D64
(on reserve in Mills Library)
 
Community Update on Rapid Transit (December 2008), Public Works Department, City of Hamilton
 
Transit 2040 Report (September 2009), Public Works Department, City of Hamilton
 
Rapid Transit Project Overview: links to background studies, feasibility reports and route maps:(http://www.hamilton.ca/ProjectsInitiatives/RapidTransit/Project+Overview.htm)

Planning for Nodes and Corridors (http://www.hamilton.ca/CityDepartments/PlanningEcDev/Divisions/StrategicServicesSpecialProjects/Planning+for+Nodes+and+Corridors.htm)

Rapid Transit Video (http://www.hamilton.ca/ProjectsInitiatives/RapidTransit/HamiltonMovingForwardVideo.htm)

 Hamilton LRT Mockup YouTube Video in HD

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwzJE3vwv2E) 

 

For other documents and plans produced by the City of Hamilton, use the keyword search box on the City website http://www.hamilton.ca/index.htm
 
 

Books

Metrolinx, Transportation Trends and Outlooks for the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton: Strategic Transit Directions Draft Report  (2007, online)  (https://ospace.scholarsportal.info/bitstream/1873/9970/1/279337.pdf)
 
Metrolinx, Transportation Trends and Outlooks for the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton: Needs and Opportunities Report (2007, online) (https://ozone.scholarsportal.info/bitstream/1873/10165/1/279338.pdf)
 
 

Newspapers and Journals

Using LexisNexis to Find Articles in The Hamilton Spectator (http://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/instruction/LexisNexis_Spectator.pdf)

Popular press journals (such as Maclean's and Toronto Life) are more likely to publish articles about local planning issues than scholarly journals. To find popular press articles, try these indexes:
Using Electronic Indexes to Find Academic Journal Articles (http://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/instruction/articles.htm)
 
Scholarly journals are less likely to publish articles about local planning issues than popular press journals, but might provide information about the topic of light rail transit in general. To investigate what might be available in scholarly journals, try these indexes:
  

Websites

Hamilton Street Railway
 
Metrolinx
 
Rapid Transit (Metrolinx)

Hamilton Light Rail citizens group webpage (http://hamiltonlightrail.com/)

Raise the Hammer blog, for example article by Ryan McGreal "Ontario Budget and LRT: Are We Screwed?" (http://www.raisethehammer.org/article/1047/ontario_budget_and_lrt:_are_we_screwed)

 There are lots of other blog posts about the Light Rail issue in Hamilton. Try a Google search to find them. Remember to consider the authority of the author and his/her bias when using information from such sources. For guidelines about the critical appraisal of Internet resources see the list of suggested tools at http://library.mcmaster.ca/find/web-search#span_classstyle8strongstrongEvaluating_Internet_Resourcesstrongstrongspan

 

Need more help? Come in the the Map Collection (Mills Library L102), look at the display set out for this class and ask the Library staff for help.