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Originally Posted by Table 5
A lot more public good could be derived from putting public money into things the general public has cheap (or better yet, free) access too. More bike paths, more hockey arenas (so people don't have to play at 11pm on a Tuesday), more swimming pools, soccer centers, skate parks....those are things that help the public good.
NHL games are a luxury good for a privileged few. This scam of giving sports teams public money has to stop. The NHL could easily fix it's own money issues by putting an arena fund into it's operating budget... by why do so when cities and governments bend over every couple of decades?
Unless we get a cut of the profits too, the only thing our governments should be doing for the Flames is giving them special treatment when it comes to processing their proposals.
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I'd say that supplying transportation infrastructure to support the stadium would fall into the cities scope. Though that should be done as part of the overall neighbourhood revitalization. So the city does have a role to play in a similar way it does with the east village.