I don’t really disagree. The planning in this city is so stupid. Build a new neighborhood with single roads going in and out. Only to have to redo the road construction a few years in and expand the lanes and overpasses. The transportation and LRT is also a joke, that should have been corrected years ago. They only plan ahead for 5 years.
It's hard to take anything the city says or does seriously when the Green Line has been in constant flux for the better part of a decade. I remember when they were talking about how it would actually reach my neighborhood in the North, after all the revisions the current outlook has it not even coming remotely close to me now and it costing 4 times as much.
The new event center was originally billed at $550 million and by the time they get shovels in the dirt I am positive that number will be closer to $750 or 800 million. They've dicked around for so long by either not getting a deal done or now cancelling the deal and re-negotiating that the cost is just skyrocketing.
Same problem I had the the Olympic bid, which was a joke in the first place. Throw $10 mil (or was it closer to $30 mil) down the drain trying to make a bid when the bid they put forth was total dogshit in the first place. How the f you not include a new event center in that bid.
With all this said, I am 100% not just going to let CSEC bully the city into paying for the arena. I was fine with the 50/50 split even though I am sure we're all in agreement the Flames should be fitting the majority of the bill, if not all of it.
I can't remember where it was, but a stadium just got a deal done for an NFL team a few weeks back for around $2 billion and football teams playing a whopping 8 home games all year. Flames use the Dome minimum over 100 times counting all the teams they own (if they don't own the Hitmen then lower the number to 75+).