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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
West village would be brutal for this without a major roadway infrastructure
changes but some places make it work if the stadiums are built in the right area.
Cardinals/Coyotes
Avalanche/Broncos
Canucks/Lions
Flyers/Eagles
Also the staples center in LA is next door to the LA convention center which is the largest and most booked convention center in north america.
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The Vancouver situation isn't much better for access, both in tight quarters, but Philly for example is a sea of parking next to I-95 and I-76 as well as being on the main subway line.
Philly's situation works because it's a huge complex of Stadiums on an unbelievably huge area of land, at the intersection of I-96 and I-76, and on a subway line. It's actually hard to understand just how much parking you have to walk through to get from the subway into a baseball game there unless you've done it. I don't think there's a parking lot that big in the entire city of Calgary.
The Pepsi Center in Denver (never been) looks like it's actually pretty separate from Mile High, with a Freeway separating them and Coors Field is also completely isolated.
As for Glendale, well, you could do something similar in Calgary, just build on Stoney Trail in the where it intersects with Trans Canada. on the East Side of town. I bet we could even get a bus stop closer than they have.
The problem with West Village which the Flames didn't even want to mention was that to build something there you really need to realign Bow Trail entirely, fix the mess around 14th Street and 6-9th Ave, and that ultimately means completely rebuilding Crowchild between 17th ave and Kensington Rd.
I think if it was 20 years later a huge pro sports area could be established in Bonnybrook where the rail yard currently is, but according to SCEC and the Sun, we need this 5 years ago.