Ohio_Roadie wrote:
If Columbus, Ohio can fund/find $315M for a new soccer stadium the replace the āhistoricā crew stadium
People will be pay to watch soccer. It's rare in this country for people to pay to watch track. They charge money for spectating at T-Town, for some events. Which is cool. And at some events at the LA velodrome. I'm not aware that it works at some tracks. I'm curious how the LA velodrome pays for itself (or if it does) since it seems both expensive to maintain (just the electricity bill to keep the place cool and the humidity low 24/7, for starters), and vastly underutilized...seems like easily 10x as many tracker riders could use it on a daily basis than do currently. It always seems very lonely when I'm there.
Edit: And it's not clear to me that LA will build a new velodrome for 2028. I've heard it's still a possibility to use the current one, just get a UCI waiver for the line-of-sight issue with the construction.