Spiritually hideous!

This place is always good for an afternoon laugh

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It's going to look more like a mall than it does that picture.

But again, the problem is your solution seems to be "Play in Soldier Field as it is now for the next 50 years" and that just isn't going to happen.

Cars exist. Parking lots exist. Move out to the country if you want to see nothing but brown, green, and dirt but as someone who has driven through that way too many times it gets old quick.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Did you have a near death experience lately?

Go live in Saskatoon and join a co-op. Be in charge of the squash section of the garden. Get some sun on your asshole.

I don’t view Arrowhead Jr. as a likely outcome.

No way they’d get LEED certification if they have to build an asphalt plant at the edge of the property to maintain 100 acres of blacktop. That type of thing would matter to Kevin Warren.

Worst case, they build some hideous brutalist parking structure they pretty up with vines and gay murals about what it means to be a Bear. It’ll give people something to look at while they’re waiting to get their hair cut.

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Maybe put the stadium right in the middle of downtown chicago and put no parking at all. Everyone has to walk or ride a bike to get a ticket.

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Isn’t that already the case? Atlanta is like that and it is absolutely terrible.

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Arent there a couple parking garages and a parking lot right near Soldier field?

I mean nothing. No cars allowed at all. We are going eco friendly.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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Fuck that, smog it up.

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You sound like Spaulding. I can hear the wine sloshing around the glass as you try to make finger quotes.

Yeah, if you want tens of thousands of people entering and exiting a centralized location, not everyone is going to be able to park a car. That's the way it should be.. Life cannot revolve around cars.

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Yes it can. We sure as hell can’t depend on public transportation, or who the hell would want to?

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It sounded like that because it was a joke and it got the desired response. Thanks!

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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A parking deck in which you cannot tailgate? That'll work.

I can rent my lawn to those that do want to tailgate.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

The model for an Arlington Heights stadium is Lambeau, right?

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Foxborough (a vast expanse of asphalt, a strip mall, and a train station most people don't use)

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Football can revolve around cars. It's almost ideal to pregame with one.

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I'd say the last several years have shown that we choose cars over public transit. I mean there is a reason public transit ridership has never recovered to pre-Covid levels. No one wants to go take their kids onto a dirty 30 year old railcar to just step over the homeless guy drugged out on the floor.

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Tell me more about the heroin addicts sprawled out on the Northwest Line.

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Ogie's an out-of-touch, dumb hick. Same as it always was.

It can and it does. Very successfully. Some still haven't got the memo that up is no longer down. I think even you are weighing the contents and considering its validity.

Damn I don’t see him recovering from that

It’s a TV sport anyway, the actual stadium should cause unimaginable suffering for any dope who wants to watch a game in person.

It's good in person. Not in 25 degree weather though.

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It kind of sucks in person.

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Maybe not on Metra, but I'm speaking in general about public transit. No one would conceivably give up the convenience of a car to be at the mercy of smelly trains or buses that put you at the mercy of someone else's schedule.

America has realigned in a lot of ways since 2020 and one thing it seems we agree upon now is that public transit sucks and we're happier in our cars. Especially if we have to drag our family along. Metra is the least sucky of the public transit options in Chicago and their ridership is what? 40% of what it was a decade ago.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Taking a train to a football game also sucks.

I suppose meeting somebody at a tailgate seems better coming off the AH metra than whatever combo of public transportation you’re using to get to Soldier Field, but there’s no substitute for parking, opening your trunk and tailgating. (Responsibly).

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Mercy, mercy, mercy.

I get some of that, but cars can't fly or teleport out of traffic. I've never sat in the bottleneck out of Miller Park or gridlock on the Kennedy and thought about how free I felt. There will always be inconveniences and impositions when you're moving tens of thousands of people in and out of one location, and attending a ticketed event is necessarily on someone else's schedule whether you took a train or parked a car.

If you have people from around and beyond the metropolitan area attending Bears games, Taylor Swift concerts, or anything else an NFL stadium would host, it makes the most sense to be near the hub in a hub-and-spoke model such as Chicago with a hybrid of transit and parking options. If you want to drive right to the stadium and eat food in a parking lot like a raccoon, that can be an option among others.

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Like 10% of seats in a football stadium are good. The rest are absolute trash.

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At some point in the future public transportation will not just be an arena for illegal immigrants to burn people alive and crazy homeless people to go into wild fentanyl rages. For now the carbrains have a point, but history marches forward and it won’t be too long until the pendulum swings back around.

Swings around to what?

Properly done, without the lowlifes and illegals causing all their mayhem, the train is just better. Traffic is horrible and will never improve. Cars are inherently dangerous because of the people who drive them, a problem that will never be fixed. Cars are a colossal money pit and the number one method of keeping people from achieving financial independence, every time you drive you commit a financial blunder.

IRS standard deduction for mileage in 2025? $.70. Lmao. “B-b-b-but America I’m smart and I get way better than that” bahaha yeah OK that’s they all say. You’re getting ripped off.

But I get it, the libs have turned public transportation into a rolling homeless/immigrant shelter where there are no rules. you gotta do what you gotta do.