02-18-2024, 05:50 PM
(02-18-2024, 01:33 PM)ac3r Wrote:(02-17-2024, 07:14 PM)bravado Wrote: I'd rather have private industry build an arena in a desirable area instead of the public paying for an arena to try and make an area desirable.
This is how it should be done. The last thing we need to do is blow probably well over 100 million in tax dollars on an arena for some boring local hockey team and concerts for artists that fell off a decade or two ago. We can barely convince the public that investments in bike lanes and buses is a good idea.
I agree with that. And yet somehow boomer politicians always think that convention centres and arenas are what people will support, and there isn't nearly as many questions about funding them as there should be. Bike lines, on the other hand, are something new and different. Can't have that.