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Originally Posted by getbak

I disagree with this. Accessing McMahon is gigantic pain in the ass from three quarters of the city.

If you live in the south half of the city, the best route to the stadium is via the Crowchild/Bow/Memorial bottleneck. If you live in the NE or a significant percentage of the NW, the best route to the stadium is down 16th Avenue, which is better than it was a decade ago, but still isn't a convenient way to get across the city.

The C-Train is even worse because everyone from the south, west, and northeast legs all have to take the one northbound train out of downtown, and it still passes three more stations between downtown and the Stadium. There are 35 stations that feed into the northbound train into Banff Trail, and 4 that feed into the southbound train.


McMahon's location isn't enough to make me refuse to go to a game if I had tickets, but the hassle of getting there is certainly a factor in answering the "do I want to buy tickets to the game, or just watch it on tv?" question.

You hit it right on the spot.