Wie zijn eigenlijk de gebruikers van dat stadion? de plaatselijke basketball club?. Tja dan moeten de prijzen van de zaalhuur, lidmaatschap en toegangskaartjes maar omhoog. Het kan toch niet zo zijn dat het dak uit de gemeentelijke belastingen wordt betaald?
December 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM
[Image]How much would you be willing to contribute if your city decides to replace the roof on the stadium? What if an official went door to door, to collect contributions for the stadium upgrade? Would you give them a few dollars? It turns out, the government is going to spend 458 million dollars for a new roof, which is almost a 1000 dollars per resident (from baby to elderly) in Vancouver.Boy oh boy.... that is a lot of money. Can we afford it amidst a recession? Nope. Do we need the new roof? No, not really: it will be built after the Olympics. Is it value for money? Well, no, Amsterdam built a stadium with retractible roof (same capacity) for $150M. Yes, you read that right: for the price of 1 Canadian roof, you could have 3 full stadia, including a retractible roof on each of them.What is going on here? Is this the Canadian version of Keynesian economics? Surely, an amount this big is not going to the actual construction work force. I'm afraid the vast majority will end up in the pockets of mafia, and corrupt politicians. It is a sad, sad, story, not unlike the Dutch Betuwe lijn.
"Please contribute $1000 to the stadium."
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Roofs in Amsterdam get almost no snow :-). Perhaps that's why the Amsterdam Arena was less expensive.
But why are governments investing in all this? Bread and games?
December 24, 2009 at 3:42 AM
Wie zijn eigenlijk de gebruikers van dat stadion? de plaatselijke basketball club?. Tja dan moeten de prijzen van de zaalhuur, lidmaatschap en toegangskaartjes maar omhoog. Het kan toch niet zo zijn dat het dak uit de gemeentelijke belastingen wordt betaald?
December 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM