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Originally Posted by browna
A lot of complaining or just flat out excuses. Pity that the taxpayer-free stadium can't be a 10 minute walk from anyone and everyone in the city but thus the challenges of living in a 1 million person city. Thousands of people head up to Cross Iron every weekend, too to trudge around mall, and even a few hundred to the race track, with less accessibility.
Parking no problem, ingress and egress no problem. Transit and shuttle buses available. Right off the ring road, which by the time the stadium is built and club off the ground, the west leg should be almost done. It's actually a really well thought out venture by the Spruce Meadows folks.
Brings me back to the idea where who knows, maybe the Flames look to the Tsuu T'ina for the next area a, as part of the massive development just off the ring road.
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It's an outdated, stuck-in-the-late-70s approach to sports infrastructure. Even CalgaryNEXT for all it's obvious problems had enough sense to locate it's facilities directly onto a central CTrain station, which should tell you everything about how much of a no-brainer it ought to be. Pitching a stadium in the middle of nowhere and expecting everyone to individually drive to games is completely out of touch with 21st century urban design in any sport - let alone soccer which is getting most of it's viewership momentum in NA from urbanite milennials who want that European march-to-the-match kind of experience.
It's all the mistakes that nearly killed early MLS and are now still in the process of trying to disentangle themselves out of. Do none of the organizers of this league have any accumulated memory?