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Originally Posted by Cyclops
Can't hold the World Cup in a stadium that can seat 30,000. Maybe that fact flew over your head. Now that the Airport has closed they are building larger skyscrapers, not that it makes a city though. The mayor has already stated that this project will most likely go ahead, but you are correct, it's not built yet. The arena will begin to push more towers, 2 are already past the bidding stage and EPCOR is planning another tower. Lets touch on the vacancy rate now, haven't heard you talk about that. Just because more towers are built doesn't mean that it creates more employees to fill them.
How about the commute, living in south Calgary and working downtown is fantastic. I know this firsthand, Memorial and Deerfoot are dream roads.
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What an odd couple of things to argue.
First, McMahon Stadium seats closer to 40K, not 30, 47K with temporary seating. That makes it larger than all but 6 stadia in this year's world cup. But that's all a non-issue as Calgary will probably have a new stadium before the World Cup (if Canada gets the World Cup).
Second, this "Edmontonian" proposal is a private endeavour. WTF does your mayor have to do with it?
Third, traffic is what people in garbage small towns like to cling to when comparing themselves to bigger cities. Sure Edmonton's traffic flows better than Calgary's, but it's also better than Paris's, New York's, Munich's, Hong Kong's, Dubai's and pretty much any other world class city in the world. Tell me please, even you aren't dense enough to believe that Edmonton is "better" than those cities.
And yes, I love driving on Memorial every morning. It's actually quite beautiful, you should try it some time.