Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

[tomh009]

Just because only a portion of the population uses a public facility is hardly a reason not to invest in such facilities.  One imagines that there are people in Kitchener who have never been to CITS or the KPL.

It's all a question of scale. I'm not suggesting anything about this project, but many cities spend a significant fraction of their capital budget on projects like this, which are not in line with the actual portion of the public which values the thing.

I don't know about CITS (I thought it was operated separately from the city anyway) but KPL is only a small fraction of the city's budget.

Larger cities spend crazy amounts of money building expensive stadiums and arenas for billionaire-owned pro sports teams. This isn't really comparable, though.

The KPL renovation cost something like $40M. And a new CITS (which will need to happen at some point, too) will cost many times that. Building facilities is not cheap, but hockey is not the only thing that is expensive.