Comment 46884

By arienc (registered) | Posted August 31, 2010 at 14:43:37

Graham...I get your point. Access to GO (and connection to centres such as Burlington/Oakville/Toronto) is poor.

It's on a highway, but there's only one way to get from there to the highway...Longwood Road to Aberdeen.

Connection to the city is poor - the site is hemmed in by highway ramps, bounded by industrial land to the east and the 403 to the west, and has no visible connection to Main St. and the LRT. This part of Main is where the bike lane disappears. Frid has no sidewalks and is basically only a entry/exit ramps to the Main St. expressway. On the other side of Main is the 403 off-ramp.

Longwood Road in this section is essentially a bridge over the 403 (with very narrow sidewalks). People will get killed walking up to Main St. and the LRT. No potential for spin-off development here - the best we can do is getting rid of the car dealership and maybe upgrading the CHML plaza.

If the city had plans to extend Frid St. into the site, reconfigure the 403 ramps to Main, and make Frid a gateway street (complete with signals, LRT stop and development around the intersection) it might work, but that alone requires close to a hundred million dollars worth of improvement. Without that, there's absolutely no way I can see much in the way of community development benefits from this stadium. Fans will be in a hurry to get the heck out of there.

From where I sit, even East Mountain looks to have more positives to it than this site. It's an abysmal place for a stadium, period. Whether you drive there, walk there, bike there, or take public transit, the experience will be a very negative one.

Comment edited by arienc on 2010-08-31 13:46:35

"First they built the road, then they built the town. That's why we're still driving around and around, and all we see. Are kids in buses. Longing to be free." - Wasted Hours, The Arcade Fire

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