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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
Why do blue line passengers have to transfer trains to go to the Saddledome? If you are on blue line you'd walk the 7-8 mins to/from City Hall and not 4 mins to/from the red line and then add in a transfer downtown.
Anytime I go to the Saddledome I use the free fare zone to get to the east end of downtown and walk the rest of the way from City Hall station. It's quick and would be even quicker to the new arena.
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Not sure that everyone going to a game walks from City Hall, just because you do. People also transfer onto the Red Line at other downtown stations, which aren't as close as City Hall is. Additionally, if it's below zero and snowy, many people aren't going to walk to the 'Dome from downtown; they'll get on the Red Line at any one of the downtown stations and get off at Stampede (or Erlton) station and walk from there. Hell, people do that when it's fairly warm and not snowy too.
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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
Perhaps you have access to a map of sorts and can measure the Sunalta platform to the entrance of Blow Your Socks Off Arena. Looks like 150m to me should do it but what are you specifically wanting to prove here? Assuming a ped bridge straight over Bow Trail.
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You can use Google Maps and the measuring feature, but I would have assumed you knew how to do that. Going by the footprint of the previous arena /fieldhouse design, since we don't have another reference point, the entrance to both facilities would have placed Sunalta Station at about the 90-110M mark. 150m would be sort of the 'middle' of the site, and you'd be in the facilities by then.
You know that you can have a great discussion without being snippy, right? Please try to rise above that.