Comment 68691

By mystoneycreek (registered) - website | Posted August 30, 2011 at 13:57:23

Future Fund money should be used to enhance the Future of large groups of Hamilton's citizens,this facility will benefit only a few!

From another 'buyer': Then I'm against the Future Fund money being used to renovate/gut & rebuild IWS.

The notion of any 'games'...PanAm, Commmonwealth, Olympic in terms of building facilities to me should be about enhancing what's extant.

In other words, providing facilities that are not currently present.

But in Hamilton's case, this notion got hijacked by a professional team. This should never have happened.

Looking back, given everything that's happened, I would have preferred it if Hamilton had gone after the velodrome and left the stadium to another community. As it stands now, it appears as if we're going to have botched everything we've tried our hands at.

The real question is whether we'll have learned anything.

(And as for the paucity of velodromes in North America...maybe there's a parallel that can be made with indoor speed-skating rinks and other such esoteric facilities. I'll send a note to Ryan about obtaining the gentleman's presentation yesterday.)

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