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Originally Posted by someone123
There is such a huge gap between the kinds of projects that were successfully completed in Edmonton in the 1970's and what might be built in a comparable Canadian city today. Commonwealth stadium and the LRT both opened within a few years and Edmonton was a Kitchener-Waterloo style and scaled metro area, with much less economic activity back then, growing at what's now a fairly standard rate in Canada.
The excuses given for why we can't build things today were all true back in the 1970's. Inflation and economic issues, disruptions, etc. The 2020's so far are a lot like the 70's.
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Commonwealth and the LRT received funding from all three levels of government because the existing depression era stadium was inadequate for the Commonwealth Games and the LRT was built to connect Commonwealth to the hotels downtown.
The Eskimos wanted a roof. They were even willing to pay most of it. Montreal 's O killed that idea with their ridiculous overruns.
Waterloo just needs to land an sub Olympic Games (X? Pan American? )and take on a whole lot of debt