LRT Can’t Support Sens At LeBreton: READER
A Bulldog reader lends support to the position that the Ottawa Senators should not move to LeBreton Flats:
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I agree with you 100 per cent.
The thought of people being stranded on the LRT at LeBreton Flats is a frightful one. This bungled joke is not worth people’s lives.
Since Transport Canada began listing daily weather conditions (publicly available) in 1953, there have been more than 5,000 hours of freezing rain in Ottawa.
The LRT cannot handle bad weather conditions. This is asking for trouble.
Keep the Sens in Kanata.
Ken McLeod
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Halifax – for unknown reasons – put its new forum in the centre of the downtown – a very stupid mistake – as everyone now sees. Leave that function way out in the suburbs.
David, the two situations are not particularly comparable.
Metro Halifax is about one third of the size of Ottawa-Gatineau. The Halifax Forum/Scotiabank arena, located in the city centre, seats about 11,000. There are lots of nearby private parking lots. I cannot comment on the quality of public transit in metro Halifax other than to say that they do not have commuter rail.
I think that there is merit in locating the Senators arena near the centre of Ottawa-Gatineau. This position is based on the opportunity to use the facility for not hockey events, such as trade shows, conventions, concerts.
Having said that, the NCC and city have both expressed an ideologically based distaste for allowing anything approximating a viable volume of nearby parking. That renders the project unviable. Why? The LRT was not designed to move 15,000+ people out of one location in anything approximating a safe, let alone timely manner (see the basis for this in my comment on a related column).