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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 366117, member: 716"]
I never understand the argument that tailgating would be better (though everyone does seem to share it). Some people would be closer together (as in, less scattered than today's Mt. Olympus/East Adams/Skytop/Manley/Fine arrangement), right? Just not sure how much of an improvement that is. Do people currently lament the difficulty in "tailgate-hopping"? And regarding the improvement for students, is grilling on your lawn on Lambreth better than grilling on your lawn on Euclid? Seems kind of the same. Maybe I'm missing something.
 
And access would be an enormous problem. Skytop's part of "campus" in that the university owns the land and some students live there, but it's out in the middle of nowhere, surrounded on two sides by private land (with no street connections) and on one side by another neighborhood with paltry street connections. No one's walking there (except for the relative handful of students who live on south and maybe some local fans who live around Barry Park and Sherman Park). So 50,000 people are going to drive cars to an SU game on Colvin/Nottingham/Lancaster/481. People think traffic is a pain now; they are going to lose their minds. Single-point freeway access to a big stadium has never worked anywhere (setting aside for a moment the engineering and financial hurdle of building a freeway exit).
 
Not doubting anyone's predictions about who's building what and where, but Skytop is as poor a location as the west side of campus is. People expecting improvements in certain areas are going to end up disappointed.
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