Facebook Live Thursday: Mayor and city's LRT project co-ordinator answer your questions

Why do we need LRT? Will it increase your taxes? Will people ride it? Is it going to happen at all?

CBC Hamilton posed these questions and more in a Facebook Live interview with Mayor Fred Eisenberger and LRT project co-ordinator Paul Johnson on Thursday.

City council will vote April 19 on an updated environment assessment, and those for and against the project are in full-swing campaign mode.They have one week to garner amajority needed from council for the green light.

The province has already committed $1 billion for the project, which will run from McMaster University to the Queenston traffic circle. Construction is due to start in 2019.

The current environmental assessment is an updated one from 2011. Major changesincludestopping the route at the traffic circle rather than Eastgate Square, a new maintenance and storage facility in the west end and making King Street a major one-way downtown thoroughfare two way in most places.