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Old 11-27-2019, 12:46 PM   #41
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Go ride other transit systems - say in Vancouver, Toronto, all rail systems in Europe, China, and Japan and let me know if your views are going to change. Calgary transit has improved a bit over the past 20-years, but they're so far behind it's not even funny!
That’s probably because Calgary is not Vancouver, Toronto, or major cities in Europe or Asia.

We’re small fish. We get infrastructure appropriate for small fish.
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Go ride other transit systems - say in Vancouver, Toronto, all rail systems in Europe, China, and Japan and let me know if your views are going to change. Calgary transit has improved a bit over the past 20-years, but they're so far behind it's not even funny!
So your stance is to not improve it and build an arena instead.

Seems logical.
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That seems like a reasonable position.
Kind of like voting for Druh Farrell in Ward 7 right? Screw the rest of the city!
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Kind of like voting for Druh Farrell in Ward 7 right? Screw the rest of the city!
Yup, that's exactly the same.
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Farrell Derangement Syndrome.
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Oooh, what will be the third bad thing for the flames this week?
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Makes sense to me, the city’s budgetary situation recently changed and this money can be better used on transportation. The Dome is fine.
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Makes sense to me, the city’s budgetary situation recently changed and this money can be better used on transportation. The Dome is fine.
It will be fine if the Hitmen is the only game in town. Which it surely will be if this were to go through.
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Makes sense to me, the city’s budgetary situation recently changed and this money can be better used on transportation. The Dome is fine.
Regrettably, as the Owners have said, the Dome is fine, just not for NHL hockey long term.
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I predict this will be a well debated thread with several posters seeing the information and then changing their opinion on this matter.
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Farkas has just indicated he will second Woolley's motion.
He is another council member that voted against the arena deal, his vote supporting Evan Wooley means very little....
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Farkas has just indicated he will second Woolley's motion.
That's the least shocking news of the year.
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The best part of having the deal arena deal completed was not having to talk about the arena deal anymore. Here we go again.
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Just providing the update regarding Farkas. Like I said before this will require 10 votes, incredibly unlikely it passes.
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Actually the north part of the city needs the green line (or BRT lanes along Center St) bad. The current proposal to build just to 16 Ave is not good enough, it needs to go to at least McKnight or 64 Ave.

But, redirecting funding from the arena project to infrastructure is a good start.
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I would think that logically if the City does vote to back out on the Arena Deal that it would be prudent for the Flames ownership to explore deals that they could get elsewhere. I doubt there are too many billionaires that are willing to finance a arena in Calgary right now.
If the city pulls out of the deal, the Flames pull out of Calgary. It's super simple.

No way they get the required 10 votes - they need to swing 6 additional votes from the original vote.

The money for the arena deal is insignificant when it comes to the overall cost of the green line, which is a freaking disaster of a project that if we really want to talk about cost overruns, the Green Line will be the absolute king.

This is just virtue signaling/grand standing from Farkas and Woolley.
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Just providing the update regarding Farkas. Like I said before this will require 10 votes, incredibly unlikely it passes.
BT, when do you anticipate council voting on this?
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BT, when do you anticipate council voting on this?
If they vote,
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Farkas has just indicated he will second Woolley's motion.
When it comes to grandstanding, you can always count of Farkas to be front and centre.
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The best part of having the deal arena deal completed was not having to talk about the arena deal anymore. Here we go again.
Quick, call the police! Somebody's holding a gun to pepper24's head and forcing him to talk about arenas on a hockey forum!

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