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Originally Posted by MarkGio
Good for the local businesses, sure, I cannot refute that. But for the city? Also, keep in mind the city incurs costs too. Drunken vandals breaking bus stops. High traffic roads need to be swept and repaved. Maintenance of side walks & pedestrian crossings. Extra policing during these events. Maintenance and costs of the extra buses and train transit to support the flood of users during these events.
So again, if the city incurs costs, and the city directly yields little to no revenue from the actual influx of people spending money at pubs and games, then where's the economic benefit?
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This has to be the post where you finally realized you were wrong in your comment that there is NO economic benefit to Calgary having a new arena and NHL franchise. Using vandalism of bus stops and maintenance of side walks as the argument of what will offset any gain? really?
On the bright side at least you went from NO benefit to now admitting there is some but quickly finding something to offset it.