Why are Minneapolis and Saint Paul so determined to build new sports stadiums, that they would direct their money into building sports facilities rather than funding the money into building safer bridges and roadways?
2007-08-12 02:55:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Big stadiums show that the city is economically progressive and will encourage investors to place their money in local businesses.
2007-08-12 03:24:06 · answer #1 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That seems to be the mentality of a lot of people. If given a chose would want the sports stadium. How much revenue will a new stadium have to generate to cover the cost of the bridge failure in Minneapolis. The city of Pittsburgh PA just built new facilities for their baseball and football teams and are in the process of building a new hockey arena and on the last bridge inspection one bridge on a scale of 0 to 100 rated a 2.
2007-08-12 10:47:06 · answer #2 · answered by hdean45 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This can be asked after any tragedy involving infrastructure or some other disaster.
Bottom line is that sports stadiums pay for themselves in tax revenue pretty darn fast. The Twin cites hasn't had a decent place for the Twins, Vikings or football Gophers to play. The Metrodome is a dump and needs to be replaced.
Now, your question is rather moot, as no one knew that that bridge would fail the way in did, or when it did. Engineers had inspected it, and although some problems were found, they weren't deemed serious enough to close the bridge and repair it.
It was a mistake, but when dealing with humans, mistakes happen.
2007-08-12 10:24:02 · answer #3 · answered by Mark A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It generates revenue as mentioned above, but it also helps create cultural identity for the people that live there.
Also, IMO building more highways is just more of the same and is not going to help our cities move into the future. We need to work on laying the networks for mass transit and human powered transit systems before relestate values make it too much of a burden. If we do lay out additional highways they should be micro-highways to promote smaller and greener personal vehicles.
2007-08-12 10:14:02 · answer #4 · answered by djhartmannn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it generates revenue.
2007-08-12 09:59:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
hmmm! I think they use do more thinking huh!
2007-08-12 21:16:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋