^^ Good work fenwick16
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Originally Posted by fenwick16
ok. I will post it later tonight once it is done. Someone on this forum convinced me that the most important thing was having the stadium in a central area with very good public transit. Being in that location, do you think that it will be less successful since most people will need cars to get there?
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I'm a big advocate of centralizing key municipal infrastructure and assets along important transportation nodes, but every city faces a unique set of characteristics. All site locations warrant analysis even if they seem less favourable on the surface.
It's only by looking at varied sites that we can determine what attributes are deemed most important. It may also come to pass that no central location is feasible upon which more outlying areas need to be considered.
This dispersal of the metropolitan population in an awkward geographic footprint changes things quite a bit. Commuting patterns for the whole metro need to be analyzed as does analysis of where people will be traveling from. Peninsula Halifax is home to only a third of the metropolitan population. It's not a given that Halifax peninsula makes the most sense.
If it's not on Peninsula Halifax, it does need to be on the Circumferential so easy access is possible from Bedford, Sackville, Dartmouth, etc. This site satisfies that demand.
Transit in Halifax is atrocious. There is no subway system, so people will be bussing regardless of where a stadium is put. We all know what morning commute onto the peninsula is like. Why would we want to reproduce that for 30,000 fans every time a game is on?
In the end, I'd prefer a peninsula Halifax site, even an on campus site. Halifax's traffic bottleneck and transit issues would need to be solved first however. Such discussion is beyond the scope of this thread, but suffice it to say, periphery locations need to be looked at.