Comment 42769

By Tecumseh (registered) | Posted July 06, 2010 at 10:04:41

There is no way the Pan-Am organizers or the Ontario government would ever go for an East Mountain location. With athletes staying in Toronto, and presumably significant numbers of spectators and media coming from Toronto and the vicinity, a large facility with effectively car-only access will never fly. As a fundamental part of the Pan-Am games it needs to be well-connected with public transit, preferably directly with Toronto with a GO station, as the west harbour location would be (and as the Confederation Park location could be, despite its other shortcomings).

What a joke it would be if media and spectators have a host of facilities well connected by transit in Toronto but for track events they'd have to hop on the highway and drive for over an hour out to Hamilton. It doesn't make any sense. Mr. Fenn and the City are focusing far too much on the needs of the Ticats and not on the whole reason we are even talking about this: the 2015 Pan-Am Games.

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