Comment 69080

By mystoneycreek (registered) - website | Posted September 06, 2011 at 05:24:47 in reply to Comment 69052

Anyone else find it funny how, amidst all the fury aimed at public spending for something as frivolous as a velodrome, the $3 million for replacing the parking lot isn't being brought up as an option for cost-cutting or further revenues? Or is it not "theft" when the government steals our tax dollars to pay for automobile infrastructure? Frankly, I'd prefer if part of the velodrome's legacy is one less parking lot.

'Funny'? Well, not in a 'funny, ha-ha' way...but not surprising at all. It shows how entrenched the culture is. This aspect was not a bone of contention at the meeting, it wasn't anything to be debated, discussed, nuthin'. Parking would be removed by building the velodrome...that parking would have to be replaced. Period.

Frankly, I didn't blink at this figure. We rely on automobiles, they need parking spots to accommodate them...end of story. Maybe it would be another story if the land being proposed for the velodrome didn't currently have parking on it and they were insisting more was needed...but I doubt it.

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