Comment 47108

By arcadia (anonymous) | Posted September 02, 2010 at 22:42:33

Confederation park won't happen but I think it's the right choice. It currently has bad transit access but could cheaply have a nearby Go station. It has parking and car access and is on the beach trail. It's a park but this is no Cootes Paradise, people drive here, park, and use the variety of crummy and dated amenities. It has the largest outdoor wave pool in Canada, which is about as lame a use of prime waterfront space as I can imagine, and will not be there in ten years. A stadium there would be a great interruption to the vision of Hamilton people get from the QEW.

You can argue against it but if you come back to 'west harbour or nowhere' or 'the cats are welfare bums' then you're saying nothing useful. This stadium is getting built and the large majority of councillors and Hamiltonians think the Cats are worth an investment much larger than the revenue they generate. Deal with that. I personally could take or leave the Cats and the CFL but I'm in the minority. So the real debate now is between MIP and nothing, it seems, and that's ok. But between CP and MIP I'd choose the latter, because we'd lose no employment lands.

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