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Originally Posted by Fish
That big building down there has a capacity almost half of what Kauffman Stadium holds. Using the Sprint Center as proof that a downtown baseball stadium would work is pointless.
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I don't know if it's entirely pointless. It shows that people are willing to come downtown and really did improve downtown from what it was before the arena was built.
I'm fairly ambivalent though...the city will need to get much more serious about managing traffic flows and communicating street closures if they want it to work. They have this habit of closing 13th street going under Bartle without any kind of public notice and they don't post signs indicating a closure until you are already too close to choose an alternate route.
Then that alternate route that you're forced into is a nightmare because the lights are timed to anticipate a much lower flow of traffic and suddenly see 3x the cars trying to get from the core to the I-35 onramp at broadway.
You can tell I've spent a good deal considering how to improve this while waiting in a quarter mile line of cars on Truman.