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Point being, who the #### wants to walk a block and wait on a freezing platform in -20 temperatures? Unless you like icy sidewalks weaving through traffic coming out of the arena, I prefer the facility to be right on the line.
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How is that any different in West Village? You still have to walk to the C-Train stations, and unless you're going to the NE or West, you're still going to be waiting outside. And with WV, you're not even going to be connected to the Green line, so those people have to transfer or find another way no matter what.
The West Village site would also has less parking available, and is farther away from the dense-residential clusters of the East Village, Victoria Park and east Beltline (as well as sizable communities in Bridgeland, Inglewood and Ramsay), so less people have access to walk.
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When is the green line suppose to start being built? I could see that being a possibility, but there is a bunch of land that would have to be bough up as well, because the land that is currently vacant isn't big enough for a new arena. They would have to buy the land between 11th and 12th avenues then close 11th and use all of that space. Not sure that is any more viable than the west village.
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Even if all of this was an issue (and the sizing issue is only relevant if you want to build both stadium and arena), it is still infinitely less complicated, and less expensive for Calgarians, than what needs to be done in the West Village.