Stadium Updates

[ArgoRavi]

This new Ottawa franchise will be around long after we are all gone. They have always had a decent fan base there but now they have solid, connected, local ownership for the first time since the 1970s and will have a beautiful new stadium. There never has been a large amount of parking there and I don't see that as being a huge factor considering that Montreal does just fine without any parking. Just allow people to park nearby like at Carleton and walk the ten minutes from there and have additional OC Transpo buses running. As long as you make that new stadium a place to be - and I am confident that they will do just that - people will find their way there without much trouble and the franchise will thrive. Traffic in that area is nothing like it is in southern Ontario.

I lived in Ottawa for over a decade and it is still my favourite place to live in so I am very partial to that city (although the Argos have always been #1 to me). As I said before, the fans have always been there - I believed that Ottawa was a much better market than Hamilton was during the 1980s and 1990s - but lousy ownership sunk the previous two franchises along with a run down stadium. Both of those problems will be rectified by the time that they take to the field in 2014.

[jerrym]

This new Ottawa franchise will be around long after we are all gone. They have always had a decent fan base there but now they have solid, connected, local ownership for the first time since the 1970s and will have a beautiful new stadium.

Having lived in Ottawa for 7 years in the distant past, I agree with ArgoRavi. I also agree that they are going overboard with their proposals to have little or no parking.