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Originally Posted by someone123
I wonder if those event-based areas can really work well though. They will have very spiky demand for things like restaurant meals or hotel rooms, and the whole area will be controlled by the developer so it'll likely have a mall-like chain feel. I would guess that there will be times the area will be too busy and some people will have to wait a lot or travel quite far, or it will be dead because nothing will be going on. I guess it can be a bit of an overflow airport hotel area as well, and a recreational spot for the Enfield area, which isn't really all that many people.
The car infrastructure is likely to get congested too. I find there is an attitude in NS that if you have a highway exit for something you have solved transportation. This is far from true for a large stadium, and large events where most people are leaving in a private vehicle can be far more miserable than pedestrian crowds of a similar scale.
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Missing from most media reports is that Clayton/Marchand plan to build 8000 homes on the site which could yield a population similar to Truro. If this is approved the city would be nuts not to start planning/assembling land for LRT. If this wouldn't be sufficient impetus I don't know what would be.
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