crawf wrote:Aidan wrote:
But the real point is that our increasing population is likely to result in much bigger crowds. Right now there's little reason to cater for crowds of more than 50 000. But in the future, it's likely to be an increasingly common occurrence, and a bigger stadium will make economic sense if we make provision for it. But if we have to start from scratch then it will be a lot more difficult.
Your plan sounds like a ridiculous waste of taxpayers money when you consider the famous hill and scoreboard at Adelaide Oval, could easily one day be replaced by another large grandstand, which would increase the capacity by another 10,000 or so.
Support for permanent retention of the famous hill and scoreboard is almost universal. Nobody would get away with replacing it by a grandstand. And wouldn't the money come from the SANFL rather than taxpayers?
Have you considered it would cost money towards continuous maintenance of this new 'super' AAMI Stadium whilst being vacant for 11 months of the year? and the fact that home technology will continue to advance further putting more strain on stadiums to attract spectators.
I understood it was planned to continue using it for SANFL games. Have those plans been abandoned?
I'm not suggesting upgrading the stadium to super capacity while such capacity wouldn't be needed for 11 months of the year. I'm suggesting refraining from putting housing where the grandstands would go! Yes, there would be a cost to that, but a small proportion of the overall cost.
Trams will hardly make any difference, nor is Adelaide growing that fast.
Last time I went to AAMI Stadium, parking was terrible. Trams would alleviate the problem.
As for Adelaide's population, it's not growing that fast
yet. We've only just started to see the effects of the mining boom.
rev wrote:What if an alien mothership decides to land in the parklands, should be build them a welcome center?
No, just redesignate the Wine Centre as a welcome center