[情報] Spurs get another chance to fulfill AT&T Center's......

[ALegmontnick (一隻腳的蒙特尼克)]

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Spurs get another chance to fulfill AT&T Center's promise

The San Antonio Spurs have a chance to deliver on a decade-old promise.

馬刺有個機會去完成一個十年來的承諾

Emerging plans to bring streetcars and perhaps even light rail to the city
could spark some of the East Side development that building the AT&T Center
was supposed to have brought about more than a decade ago.

醞釀中在城裡建造街車甚至是輕軌電車的計畫可能點燃一些城東的發展,而這本是
AT&T中心超過十年前建造的原意

To help make that happen, the Spurs might have to offer up the fruits of
their most recent political victory, the May 2008 election in which voters
approved putting $100 million in revenue from the venue tax on hotel rooms
and rental cars toward unspecified improvements to the AT&T Center, the
Freeman Coliseum and the rodeo grounds.

為了讓此諾成真,馬刺可能會獻上最近政治勝利所得到的成果:
在08年五月的投票裡選民批准從道路稅裡撥一億來改善AT&T中心/自由人體育館/牛仔場地
的飯店房間與出租車.

The opportunity arose last week, when VIA Metropolitan Transit trustees
directed staff to apply for a $25 million federal grant to put a streetcar
plan in motion. The grant would fund the beginnings of a 2.2-mile,
north-south segment along Broadway and South Alamo Street, which officials
estimate would cost $90 million, with an east-west route stopping short of
the AT&T Center to follow.

機會出現在上禮拜:威盛都市交通信託基金會指示職員去申請2500萬的聯邦經費
以推動街車計畫
這筆經費將會資助一條2.2哩的沿著百老匯路及南阿辣末路的南北向(街車)路段
官方預估將花費9千萬
然後有一條東西向的常規短線停靠AT&T中心

It's part of a larger plan that Mayor Julián Castro, Bexar County Judge
Nelson Wolff and VIA Chairman Henry Muñoz are pushing to re-think public
transit, an ambitious effort they hope eventually will include light rail.

這是一個由市長/法官/威盛董事共同推動重新思考公共運輸的大計畫的一部分,
他們希望這個野心勃勃的努力最終可以也蓋出輕軌(不然就剩街車了XD)

VIA board member Rick Pych, president of business operations for Spurs Sports
& Entertainment, wondered why an east-west route wouldn't come first and,
without mentioning the AT&T Center specifically, whether planners had
considered extending the proposed east-west route to Brooke Army Medical
Center. Coincidentally (or not), that would take it past the arena.

威盛董事Rick Pych也是馬刺運動與娛樂公司的營運總裁,疑惑為何東西向路線不先來?
也不特別提AT&T中心......難道做計劃的人沒想過這條要到Brooke軍醫院的路線很碰巧的
也會經過那個(地上會畫一個很大的馬刺的)體育館嗎?

Castro and Wolff appeared together before the board, vowing to raise public
and private money for the project as it unfolds. Wolff, the driving force
behind the 2008 venue tax campaign, said afterwards that using venue tax
money was worth considering if the AT&T Center were on the streetcar line. “
If you were going east and west, some of that could be available,” he said.

Castro and Wolff跑去找委員會,發誓會想辦法弄到錢.....
08道路稅改革運動的幕後推手Wolff說如果AT&T中心也在路線上,花道路稅也很值得啊(!?)
如果要蓋東西向路線,來點錢應該OK啦(!?)

Less enthusiastic was Leo Gomez, the Spurs' vice president of corporate
communications and public affairs.

馬刺公關副總Leo Gomez就沒那麼嗨了......

“My understanding is the Prop 3 money is pretty well defined in the ballot
language as such to be utilized for the arena, the coliseum and the rodeo
grounds,” he said.

我個人理解這筆錢的用途是白底黑字在法案上寫明要用在體育館/競技場/牛仔場上

The ballot language approved by voters included all of those things, but it
also allowed for “improvements to roads adjacent to the Coliseum and the
AT&T Center, and related infrastructure.”

法案是寫了這些沒錯啦,但是修修週邊道路和相關設施也是OK的啊

That's a definition you can drive a streetcar through.

所以這是"街車 safe!!"的意思囉!?

The good news is, the Spurs have been enthusiastic about recently revived
efforts to bring new life to the East Side, and Gomez said streetcars would
be a huge step forward for the area around the arena.

好消息是:馬刺很積極在為城東帶來新活力,Gomez也說街車會是體育場週邊發展的一大步

“We're excited enough about the possibility that we are willing to sit down
and figure out what's the appropriate mechanism.”

我們有足夠的熱度來坐下談出個適當的機制

So maybe this can be worked out in a way that suits everybody, but the Spurs
have to help make it happen. Whether that involves venue tax money or other
funds doesn't matter all that much, not as long as they do their part to
fulfill the arena's original promise.

所以或許可以有個三贏的方法(SA/Spurs/Streetcar)但是馬刺要合作啊
不管是從道路稅來還是從其他哪裡來都不那麼重要,重要的是他們要一起幫忙完成那最初
的承諾喔>.0

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推 whoze:馬刺打好點票房才會有
推 Kshatri:看到">.0"笑了XD
推 uxormania:這其實是重要的新聞
→ uxormania:沒有甚麼比跟市政府的關係更能牽動球隊是否遷移了
推 normaler:票房好點才能把Bosh簽下來
推 jack0124:對了就的場館是很大但是很老舊所以拆掉嗎