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Originally Posted by dissentowner
For the love of God nobody gives a tin crap about your bike lane discussion! Start an off topic thread.
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The new arena site is directly on a bike lane, so it's neatly tied into the project. Cycling may not be a main mode of transport to the arena itself, but it will be very important to the success of an entertainment and cultural district and any sustainable, long-term success it would hope to have outside game times.
People keep throwing parking revenue around when talking about arenas when parking is becoming more and more irrelevant to the process than ever before (because you can't have a bustling entertainment and cultural district and also have ample amounts of close, inexpensive parking options). Even the Stampede is accepting that losing parking will be necessary to have a better vision, and even when it came to the NEXT location the Flames weren't really factoring it in as a significant revenue source either. Moving people from the arena to their cars (which will be far more spread out than they ever were with the Saddledome) or to transit or to whatever other mode they use will require a much different look for how infrastructure is built than people are used to, and will involve the kind of thinking that has been promoting bike lanes more than it involves taking them away, so I'd say the more discussion that can clear up misconceptions the better.