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Perfect_Drug said:
Aren't all the nice hotels by ScotiaBank Arena?

Pretty sure I stayed at the Fairmont a block away. And there's like 10 others within 2-3 blocks.
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A ton of the nice hotels aren't too far from Scotiabank Arena. Some of the nicer options are up in Yorkville such as Four Seasons, Park-Hyatt and Hazleton, then there is Hotel X up in the Exhibition grounds (which they used for the playoff bubble in 2020 alongside the Fairmount Royal York). But Fairmount Royal York, Ritz-Carlton, Shangri-La, St. Regis, and Bisha are all not too far from Scotiabank in the core of the city. Scotiabank Arena and Skydome pretty much border the financial district, which obviously has quite a few hotels for people who come here for work.
 
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Don't worry once we get rid of bike lanes, build more lanes on the 401, and a tunnel under it.. everything will be totally fine in an ever growing city/downtown constrained on one side by a lake.

Take that you damn hippies.
 
Golden_Jet said:
Keep in mind the CBA stipulates the hotel has to be 5 star or plus.
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There's no 5 star or plus hotel requirement by the way, not sure where you got that from? Lots of NHL teams have stayed in 4 star hotels.

Anyway, the Coyotes would try to circumvent their hotel requirements anyway, as was referenced in the source I cited.

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The team's creative accounting was a constant source of concern around the league. There were incidents over the years of the Coyotes skimping on money. The Coyotes would try to stay at lesser hotels than the collective bargaining agreement stipulates. Ownership tried cutting corners when they could, like removing the printer and copying machine from the coaches' room.

Multiple sources told ESPN that the Coyotes were either late paying their hotel bills or sometimes just crossed out the total and paid a different amount. Other sources indicated local businesses would come to the team seeking payments, would be offered a fraction of what was owed and then would be negotiated down to take less than what was actually owed.
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Perfect_Drug said:
They absolutely should.

If someone from another city comes into your city DAILY uses your roads, wears everything down, and leaves doesn't pay a cent for the damage and maintenance they inflict on your infrastructure? How does that make any economic sense?

Everything else is managed this way. Every cities METRO has ZONES. When you come in from another zone you have to pay more. SAME reason. The people who USE the infrastructure should be required to pay for the maintenance and repair of that infrastructure.

Every bridge in Canada should be tolled. There is no reasonable explanation as to why they aren't.
Who should pay for a bridge?
THE PEOPLE WHO USE THE f***ING BRIDGE.

And jacking your price up is called free-market capitalism. Of course you should do that when your costs go up.
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Everything about this is nonsense but just to point out a couple:

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Every bridge in Canada should be tolled. There is no reasonable explanation as to why they aren't.
Who should pay for a bridge?
THE PEOPLE WHO USE THE f***ING BRIDGE."

The bridges were already paid for with tax dollars and now mostly maintained with tax dollars (specifically gas taxes - you know - paid for by car drivers).

"And jacking your price up is called free-market capitalism. Of course you should do that when your costs go up."

In no reality is a government increasing taxes, fees, levies or tariffs anything even close to free market. It's quite the opposite. If roads and bridges, etc., were all controlled by the free market and private enterprise, we'd have the best moving and maintained roads in the world. You know, like the 407. Then you can have your tolls. I gladly pay for for the 407 and in fact, I hope they increase the tolls to keep it free flowing. If you really think that's what would happen on the DVP, Gardiner, Allen, etc., while still managed by city bureaucrats, man, you have some soul searching to do.
 
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ItWasJustified said:
Where there's a will, there's a way.

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Nice pictures, but you left a lot out of the story! Calvary, Knights Tower and Jesu are still in place. The County Courthouse still stands in the same place. A new Red Arrow park with a skating rink was built a few blocks east on Water St, near City Hall.

The "museum" is the Milwaukee Central Library, which opened in 1895 at 8th and Wells and is still on the same spot. The Milwaukee Public Museum moved into some empty space in the library, but out grew it and moved to its own building a block north at 8th and Wells. In 2027, it will move again into a new building at 6th and McKinley, where part of the former Park East Freeway used to be!

Your second photo leaves a lot out since that library is 3 large stories high and takes up an entire city block! It is partly hidden behind the Marquette University Recplex building. You can see the dome to the right.
 
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The Hanging Jowl said:
In no reality is a government increasing taxes, fees, levies or tariffs anything even close to free market. It's quite the opposite. If roads and bridges, etc., were all controlled by the free market and private enterprise, we'd have the best moving and maintained roads in the world. You know, like the 407. Then you can have your tolls. I gladly pay for for the 407 and in fact, I hope they increase the tolls to keep it free flowing. If you really think that's what would happen on the DVP, Gardiner, Allen, etc., while still managed by city bureaucrats, man, you have some soul searching to do.
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You pay 10x more on the tollway per km of travel, and probably 100x more per km of road. Tollways serve their purpose, but you give current road infrastructure to a private entity to manage, and either the costs will double, or the quality will deteriorate even more. I am not saying government bureaucrats are saints and saviours, but no private entity will take this job for the money we are paying.
 
The Podium said:
Tom Cruise and yourself may want to travel more. Bangkok traffic was 10x worse than anything I’ve ever seen in all my years living just outside Toronto and commuting in daily. I bet that’s not even the worst city for traffic.
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This post is so unintentionally funny in so many ways. I can only assume you are going for a KenM bit here.
 
The Podium said:
Tom Cruise and yourself may want to travel more. Bangkok traffic was 10x worse than anything I’ve ever seen in all my years living just outside Toronto and commuting in daily. I bet that’s not even the worst city for traffic.
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Cairo was the worst I saw 16 lanes wide, 8 each direction, with no lines at the time, and everyone just leans on their horns the whole time.
 
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