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Je suis tombé sur cet article intéressant proposant la vision d'un architecte sur le design d'un stade de baseball moderne et son intégration avec la trame urbaine.  Il n'aborde pas la question du transport, mais ça reste intéressant.

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Throw open the gates

The relationship between teams and their surrounding urban environment — good or bad — has created some of the most memorable and familiar features in ballpark design. Fenway Park’s iconic 37-foot-high “Green Monster” wall in left field began in part as a spite fence to prevent freeloaders from watching games from nearby buildings. Wrigley Field’s rooftop viewing sections represent the (eventual, grudging) concession to that same kind of viewing. While those examples are more than a century old, the tension between teams and towns remains.

“Any time someone else puts something outside our front door, it’s going to have an adverse impact on our business,” explained Atlanta Braves president of development Mike Plant in 2016 while outlining the massive team-controlled development project accompanying the club’s move from downtown Atlanta to an undeveloped field in suburban Cobb County. This is a business strategy, but it’s not community engagement. It’s community imitation, creating a context to fit one’s own needs and walling off the city outside.

We’re going to take a different approach: we’re throwing open the gates, and offering the stadium up to the street. Instead of simply using design touches to emulate surrounding buildings, we’ll erase the distinction between stadium and surround, and put the backs of those supporters’ sections towards the street. We can’t have cars on a concourse, so a series of pedestrianized streets — like those that have been successfully implemented in urban developments like Las Vegas’s Fremont Street, Kansas City’s Power and Light District, or Louisville’s Fourth Street Live — can place the park smack-dab in the middle of a vibrant, multi-use entertainment district, developed with the same open-handed, community-led process as the park itself.

Will some people be able to catch a glimpse of the game without buying a seat? Sure. The club can make money back by leasing land to the businesses drawn in by that activity. And on slow game days, the district can support the ballpark by bringing in people who might decide to catch a couple innings over a beer after dinner at a nearby restaurant. When the ballpark is bursting at the seams for a playoff game? The crowd can flow through the entire district, expanding the ballpark’s capacity greatly.

For once, a new ballpark can be an organic part of the city, rather than just echo of it.

 

https://www.sbnation.com/2019/9/26/20883568/american-sports-stadium-architecture-future

Oui le système fonctionne et est idéal pour les signataires de cette lettre, mais le système de opt-out met le fardeau des démarches sur celui qu'i n'a pas sollicité le service.  Sans compter qu'il doit mettre un collant dégueu sur sa boite au lettre.   C'est le monde à l'envers.   Ça devrait être à ceux qui demandent le service de faire les démarches et d’apposer le collant.  Mais ils savent très bien que peu le feront et c'est leur marché qui s'envole.

Ça avance.

J'espère que la 55 puisse continuer de prendre Victoria même après le grand rabattement vers le REM...

Ça indique alors un emplacement plus près de la rue Ottawa et laisse le nom 'Bassin Peel' pour la future station du stade des Expos 🙂