Last week in our Local Blog Talk section, Kevin linked to Christof Spieler’s post about how Mayor White’s newly proposed downtown soccer stadium sits right in the middle of two proposed light rail lines.
In today’s Move It! column, Rad Sallee takes up the topic and refers to “local bloggers” having raised the issue, without actually naming the local bloggER — singular. As Cory Crow notes, it’s odd that Sallee didn’t name Spieler, and link to his post.
But then there’s this quote in Sallee’s story:
Mayor Bill White’s spokesman Frank Michel said that is no surprise to the city or Metropolitan Transit Authority, since both have been involved in stadium talks with the Houston Dynamo soccer team since last spring.
Whoa! Are we to infer then that this location has been the preferred location since last spring? That would have been news to many of us! But then again, Mayor White was very stingy with details as negotiations dragged on.
Maybe the new stadium location wasn’t a surprise to the city or Metro or the Dynamo. But it surely was to just about everyone else.
One commenter to Sallee’s column wonders if the Dynamo will pay all the costs associated with making changes to the two light rail lines. Good question!
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