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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
If the “bit of infrastructure”, is designed to accommodate a capacity of a second downtown, well, that’s my point. They may not need it.
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It'll be a while before we have too much public infrastructure...the downturn might just let things get caught up. If Calgary somehow shrunk back to a million people in 20 years, we're not going to regret having a full ring road, int'l airport terminal, the current improvements to Crowchild over the Bow, or the Green Line. We'd all pay higher taxes and our homes would be worth less. Kind of like every other city in Canada except Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.
We have more reason to fear Trump and the little rocket man riling each other up again than regretting that we spent a few dozen millions making the walk from DT to EV to Stampede to 17th a hell of a lot nicer is the reason the city collapsed.
But, if we are worried about spending public money on 'Nice-to-haves' right now, a new arena should probably be at the top of that list?