- Aug 24, 2011
- 28,207
- 13,040
Fair enough, but 20,000 people can't all take the bus or the L to a game. If you're coming from the burbs you'd have to take the Metra to Union Station then get from Union to the United Center. Not impossible via CTA but it's going to take you hours of commute time. Annoying at best to do before the game, exhausting and probably more dangerous to do at night.And this is the chicken-egg thing for "safety" folks. Desolate and underutilized urban areas have a tendency to become "unsafe." When you put things in those places that people frequent and use, that changes.
When people go "well I feel unsafe traveling to this location any way other than by car" they typically don't realize that car infrastructure (large, mostly-empty parking lots, overpasses, highways that break up neighborhoods) is exactly what made the area feel "unsafe" in the first place.
People need to be able to park their cars, end of story.