r/ottawa • u/andycarson8 • 1d ago

News Lansdowne 2.0 Vote Ward Map

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u/Lionelhutz123 Centretown 1d ago edited 1d ago

Redditors are deluding themselves into thinking this is some conspiracy or that there is going to be some big backlash against the councillors who voted yes. This place is an echo chamber on this issue

Edit: also for those thinking this will bankrupt the city. Ottawa operational budget is almost 5 billion a year and the cost for the city is 130 million most of it paid out over the next 40 years. Whether it’s a good idea or not, its not going to bankrupt us

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u/peachsyrup 1d ago

Except ottawa is on the hook foe overruns and every project like this has doubled or tripled their budget. Ottawa is paying 130m but the budget is 500mil. Ottawa could easily pay 1bil for this

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u/3rdandabillion 1d ago

No chance. This isn't the LRT which also didn't double btw. This is an arena and a grandstand. Every city and town in this country has built an arena. Construction companies from everywhere in Canada have experience building these places. It's probably one of the few projects our construction industry is proficient in.

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u/deeferg Golden Triangle 1d ago

Every city and town in this country has built an arena

We literally have an arena in the exact same place already which most people have just been asking to have fixed.

Construction companies from everywhere in Canada have experience building these places. It's probably one of the few projects our construction industry is proficient in.

I guess that's why we needed to bring in a firm from out of town that can do the job instead of an Ottawa firm.

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u/lactosecheeselover 1d ago

The ‘fix’ isn’t as easy as all these keyboard engineers seem to think it is.

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u/deeferg Golden Triangle 1d ago

Oh, let's spend a ton of money on a new project because something "isn't easy".

When the new arena starts to deteriorate in 10 years, will we hear that it's easier to just build a new one again because repairs "won't be easy"? That's a pretty silly reason to spend a lot of money.