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, it was suggested a site remediation could cost between $85 million and $140 million, and would take six or more years to get underway due to required environmental approvals.Postmedia reached out to Premier Danielle Smith’s office to see if the province was prepared to put up money for West Village contamination cleanup.
“You’ve got that confusing set of cloverleafs around it that would become gridlocked on game days. And as for as the train lines, it’s on the blue line but it’s one line beyond the downtown area.”He said the nearby Sunalta station platform is raised very high, and the result would be thousands of people trying to get into and out of that station, or the requirement of a new walkway connecting it to the arena.
“The fact that the Saddledome, the Stampede have been there for decades means that there’s a load infrastructure there as well,” he said. “So as East Village developed, it’s developed around the existing roads structure that accommodates hundreds of thousands of people coming in and out of the Stampede.”
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