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Originally Posted by GGG
Looking at Vanoc as the example
The games broke even on operating cost at 1.8 billion or so. This did not include the federal security bill of 1 billion or provincial infrastructure investment of 900 million. This total of 4ish billion did include things like the Richmond fieldhouse and the sliding center in Whistler.
It did not include the convention center upgrade, the sky train upgrade, or the sea to sky highway upgrade which were somewhere in the 3 billion range.
So if you look at the Olympics they spent 4 billion to make 2 billion to get sports specific venues in Whistler and the Richmond Field House. And promoting tourism.
Then they spent 3 billion on other needed infrastructure.
Looking at the city report what do you feel in the list that the 4.6 billion covers is needed infrastructure? To me the key infrastructures items like Transit are excluded from that estimate.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.2695994
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/b...-925m-1.934931 |
Indeed. I want to see what that type of breakdown will be for Calgary 2026 - especially stuff like security, which supposedly is less complex in Calgary including the way they want to concentrate venues. That seems like the most obvious straight forward sunk cost.
Do Vancouverites, British Columbians and Canadians by and large regret that expenditure? Doesn't seem to be.