Ontario's biggest ever LRT rally!
Not just that -- Multiple people who saw that rally, confirms it was bigger than Toronto.
Damn impressive, especially as it was raining -- and on a holiday weekend that many people were away on vacation.
Estimates varied all over the place, with 250-300 near beginning and near end, but briefly
peaking at 500 during the middle of the rally at around 12:45pm, with multiple people estimating numbers ranging between 420 and 500. There was a bit of crowd churn (people coming, people going) due to weather, as not everyone stayed the whole rally, but the crowd certainly peaked just before 1pm.
Regardless, on a relative size basis, just comparing crowd mass (by the few who's been to the Transit City Rally too) it was bigger than Transit City 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not bad for Hamilton, a smaller city -- during rain -- and during a long Easter-getaway weekend.
As a point of reference, Toronto’s biggest rally was the
2010 Transit City rally, and for Kitchener-Waterloo’s biggest was the
2011 Rally-For-Rails.