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Originally Posted by JHikka
This is a report from OSEG highlighting transportation demand for events at Lansdowne Park for 2016.
On Page ii of the Executive Summary you can find a table for REDBLACKS and Minor Events at the Stadium, which I will duplicate here:
To answer your question: Roughly 10% walk or cycle to either major or minor events at Lansdowne. For a REDBLACK's game that's ~2,500 attendees, for 67s & Fury it's between 450 & 800.
Because parking is scarce around the stadium over half of attendees take transit or utilize a park-and-ride system (~13,000), with a quarter still parking near the stadium for REDBLACKs games (roughly ~6,000).
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Here's a report from the 2015 PanAm games highlighting spectator mode of travel to events. Here you can see the disparity in mode of travel between Downtown venues and Suburban venues:
Walking/Cycling made up between 10%-20% of the Downtown venues and that figure was less than half at suburban venues. Tickets to these events granted free transit.
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Thanks for the stats. I'm wondering how it would stack up in Halifax's peninsular layout. It does appear that in larger cities that the combination of unavailable parking and horrible traffic will force people to take transit, with the assumption is that the transit system works well in those locations.
On the flip side, the Pan Am Games data makes me wonder which mode people prefer to use - i.e. is the reason that they don't drive to downtown venues just because it's just so darn inconvenient to drive there, or is it that they would actually prefer to walk or take transit? How did attendance compare between the two styles? Did people who walk and bike take transit or just decline to attend?
Truth be known, it wouldn't really matter to me where it's built as long as the appropriate research has been done by people with appropriate qualifications and that they make a decision based on sound reasoning...
In other words, no matter where you put it make sure you design it such that it's not a cluster---- to get there....
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