Sheffield's white elephant stadia etc.

[david weston]

As an absentee from the city for many years, am I right in thinking that the stadia built for the 'Student Games' (was it ?) are little used and still being paid for ? Given that I believe the City Hall was only paid for by the 1970's this wouldn't surprise. Europe is awash with such white elephant arenas, it's bread and circuses gone mad. Add up the cost of A. The building of these stadia. B. Building the 'Hole-in-the-road' and then filling it in within a generation. C. Getting rid of the trams ( unlike foresighted Blackpool ) and then bringing foreign-built new ones back within a similar short period, one of the first routes opened being to the Meadow Hall center taking shoppers away from the city shops, and D.Pond Street bus station's re-modelling after not that many years. It seems the Victorians built to last, and the back-handing officials of today build to re-build ! Well, if you don't visit your MP's surgeries and don't attend the odd council meeting, what do you expect ?!