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Originally Posted by Saul Good
I think you've got your facts backwards. Sprawl is the enemy of light rail. And there will NEVER be shit around the stadiums. NEVER EVER EVER. Nor should there be. It's in a terrible location...pretty much like everything else in Kansas City.
Airport 30 miles north of town? Check
Casinos on the river north of the city? Check
Stadiums on the east side of the city? Check
Theme parks next to the caves? Check
Kemper Arena in the west bottoms? Check
The Sprint Center/P&L is the first thing the city has done right since...well...ever.
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Try living in Phoenix, bro. I just moved to the River Market in KC after being in PHX for a couple years and it's LIGHT YEARS better. Phoenix is the mothership of sprawl. You've got a downtown basketball and baseball stadium, and a central airport. Other than that, you're driving 30 miles in either direction to get ANYWHERE. University of Phoenix Stadium and Jobing.com Arena are all the way the **** out in Glendale, which is basically East LA. If you live in Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert or even Tempe, good luck making it out there without blowing your brains out during the commute. They have a light rail. If you'd like to get from Mesa to the airport, it's super convenient, so long as you've got an hour to spare and don't mind a homeless dude pissing himself in the seat next to you while asking you for change so that he can hop off at Mill Avenue and buy crack from the peddlers on ASU's campus. I once hopped on the light rail in Mesa to go to a Suns game and by the time we made it to the stadium we were 30 minutes late for tipoff and the shuttle was so overcrowded that it looked like a Japanese subway.
Kansas City? It's cake. Sure, the airport's location blows. That's common knowledge. But I much prefer our stadium locations to places like Phoenix. And if those ****ers can have a lightrail that runs damn near from New Mexico to California, surely we can have one. Our downtown is blowing up right now, so yeah...a downtown stadium would be cool. I don't know that it'd be more convenient though.