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Originally Posted by hfx_chris
Re Fenwick's question on Shannon Park and transit, there is one bus route that goes there, however as somebody mentioned earlier (and I mentioned before that) there's always room for Metro Transit to step up with shuttle buses. They do it for the concerts on the Common, they do it for the air show, they do it for Exhibition Park. Plus with a site on the water, it always leaves open the possibility of some sort of water route.
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Any location can have transit established to serve it; be it on the peninsula, Shannon, or Exhibition Park. Each site presents opportunities and constraints for transit. A good example, as pointed out earlier, is Shannon - you can set up a high speed ferry terminal and once the high speed ferries are up and running, there would be the potential for a direct connection from downtown and Bedford - potentially within walking distance. The same could be true of the RIM site near the 4 pad arena BUT would require buses to get you from the HS ferry to the site and back. The forum/windsor park site has established transit and parking that could be expanded, but local road capacity may be exceeded when an event is held.
I don't think anyone had proposed tearing down the Forum, but the thinking that Fenwick had started on and some of us added too was that if you already have the forum and it's parking site - if CFB Windsor could be closed and aquired (and potentially the Superstore and NS Power transformer site); then you could put a stadium at the CFB Windsor location and then expand the forum parking by means of a parkade and a ped bridge to get people across Young Street without impeding the lights. That lead to someone adding that the forum parking could then be used as a park and ride during the work week as well. So the idea was more about blending an creating a multi-use facility, but as some have pointed out (and probably correctly so); if we want this done fast - the land may not be available (if CFB windsor is still needed).
Shannon Park represents a significant enough opportunity site (still within what HRM defines as the 'regional core') that not only could a stadium become part of a major redevelopment scheme, but if done well, could create a whole new community of high and medium density, stadium and mixed use.
On the flip side, I can invission some interesting things with Exhibition Park as well; if it's as underused as people say. It would have the benefit of parking, but as I've pointed out before - part of HRM's issues with traffic is sticking to the model that car is king. Perhaps we need to think outside the box when it comes to parking and not build as much and build better transit connections instead (such as using the new articulated buses for special routes for events).
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