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Originally Posted by Saul Goode
I've pondered that for years; no, decades. Can anyone name another city of a half million anywhere that doesn't have a functional stadium of a respectable size?
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I believe Scotiabank Centre is larger than its equivalents in London or KWC, but the overall point is definitely valid.
My wife was at some building-industry event downtown this morning where Andy Fillmore was interviewed, and apparently he actually talked quite a bit about the urgency to get rapid transit happening, get cars off the streets, and described how he doesn’t want to kill the Mill Cove ferry but find a cheaper option (some kind of rapid hybrid diesel-electric ferry) and also push for more BRT funding. Also talked about who he “couldn’t sleep last night” because he had some kind of meeting over the future of the casino site and thinks it can become some kind of landmark civic site, rather than just sold off for cash.
I’m frustrated by the nickel and diming mentality, and the often extraordinarily incremental pace of civic improvement. I am cautiously encouraged though by those kinds of comments (and I’m not a Fillmore fan).
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