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let people ride transit to the facility for free when the team is playing, according to multiple municipal sources.
let people ride transit to the facility for free when the team is playing, according to multiple municipal sources.
The thing I really don't understand is how they can say the ticket surcharge is a Flames cost. It's paid (mostly) by the citizens, and hence the city. How are they able to say that with a straight face?
It's disappointing that this proposal was tabled by adults, it's put to other adults, is being announced to the adults in the public, and they can't discuss the proposals without being completely dishonest in their description of the contributions.
They should pay 100%. Most of the other buildings in the league (at least in Canada) were paid for by the teams themselves.
Air Canada Centre - Toronto
Bell Centre - Montreal
Rogers Arena - Vancouver
Canadian Tire Centre - Ottawa
Screw Ken King. Don't want to pay for your arena? RELOCATE! It's not like this organization has given us anything to cheer for in the last quarter century.
Just Using made up numbers to make the point - If a ticket costs $115, with $100 being the ticket and $15 being the CRL, that means the average consumer is willing to pay $115. If there was no CRL you know the Flames would still charge $115.
Because neither of these are serious negotiating positions. They're both aimed at the public with the intent of effecting the result on election day. Any serious negotiating will be behind closed doors.
Just Using made up numbers to make the point - If a ticket costs $115, with $100 being the ticket and $15 being the CRL, that means the average consumer is willing to pay $115. If there was no CRL you know the Flames would still charge $115.
As humourous as that is, showing your event ticket as your transit fare would be a great way to encourage ridership to the games and reduce the traffic disruptions in the area on game day.
As humourous as that is, showing your event ticket as your transit fare would be a great way to encourage ridership to the games and reduce the traffic disruptions in the area on game day.
As humourous as that is, showing your event ticket as your transit fare would be a great way to encourage ridership to the games and reduce the traffic disruptions in the area on game day.
Taking the train home from the game is about as bad of a "Calgary" experience as you can find. Right under frolicking in the pee puddles in the 9th Avenue/8th Street underpass.
If there's one thing I'm fairly confident about it's this. If the NHL can prop up the Coyotes for years, can't see why they wouldn't intervene on our behalf as well.Even if the current ownership group were to sell, there's still not even a sliver of a chance that they would allow a sale to someone intending to move the franchise, not when the market is obviously profitable and the expansion fees are hefty. Better to just make outsiders pad your pockets for a new team!
Nah, it's quite a bit further down the list in my mind. I've been doing it for years and honestly cannot remember any bad experiences - whereas during other hours of the day, yeah the LRT ride can be quite... interesting.
If there's one thing I'm fairly confident about it's this. If the NHL can prop up the Coyotes for years, can't see why they wouldn't intervene on our behalf as well.
True. There are other times where taking the train is way worse.
But man, waiting for that train in minus 30 and then jamming it like sardines can be quite awful.
They should build a dedicated Uber lane in front of the arena.
Arizona is being propped up because the city was bending over for the NHL. Propping them up sends the exact message the NHL wants to send to municipalities which is "Build for us and we will work with you". Not working with Calgary sends the opposite and still desired message, "Don't build us an arena and you will lose your team". I also think there is probably some ego and pride when it comes to the southern teams.
This is one of the biggest reasons I want to see Calgary Next revived.
Aside from the fact that the CRL makes sense in the west village - not for the Flames arena use, but for creosote cleanup and transportation upgrades.
100% agree. To be frank, I’m pretty outraged as a citizen that the city has known about the pollution for the time it has but has made no attempts to do anything about it regardless if CalgaryNext went forward or not.
My stance on the position is that I think the Flames have been trying to get the ball rolling on talks to build these facilities. But the city is continuously shown its stubbornness on these negotiations while stalling talks completely. This is what is the most frustrating thing to me and why I think they do not value having the Flames and Stampeders in the city. McMahon and a fieldhouse should actually be the priority.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by the city being stubborn? Them not wanting to foot a multi-million dollar bill for something it will never gain profit from doesn't sound stubborn to me, in fact it actually sounds pretty reasonable.
Sure. They have not shown any willingness to negotiate but yet the Mayor is saying in his campaign he wants a new arena. Negotiating requires a willingness to talk, so far it’s been all one sided.
Now the rebuttal is, the Flames are the ones that walked away. But it should be blantanly obvious to everyone that is a negotiating tactic.