01-29-2016, 11:16 PM
(01-29-2016, 11:04 PM)KevinL Wrote: The O has the advantage of a direct tunnel to Pie-IX station, which also has high-capacity gates for when events are on.
If only it had more events...
Yep. Was just there today (no event though). Relevant to the Aud, people in the English media always said that the Olympic Stadium was far from people who would go to events. I don't know if that's actually true or if it's just perception (I did grow up in eastern Montreal). Certainly in its heyday eastern Montreal's industrial base was hollowing out and it was sort of a blue-collar area at best, anyway. But the stadium is certainly large enough that smaller events get drowned out in the cavernous space.
Even though the Olympic Stadium wasn't actually that far from the more prosperous neighbourhoods of Montreal, it did feel like it was far from them. On the other hand, nothing actually feels far in K-W.