Mihairokov said:
Have seen a lot of people complaining about the walk from TTC to the venue and I can only assume they're suburbanites because it is not that long of a walk for anyone who has been to any kind of music festival or outdoor event before. It's a fifteen minute walk which I have done at that area a countless number of times in all weather.
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That's a generalization. The suburbanites who do walk often walk for longer distance than their downtown counterparts - especially those who take transit but are not directly on a bus route or near a rail station.
 
11th said:
That's a generalization. The suburbanites who do walk often walk for longer distance than their downtown counterparts - especially those who take transit but are not directly on a bus route or near a rail station.
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Yes, but most suburbanites don't walk or take transit.
 
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Would be interested in pictures of the biking facilities.

BICYCLE

Rogers Stadium is proud to partner with BikeShare TO and CycleTO to provide cycling options to our fans. For fans riding their own bicycles to Rogers Stadium, we will have complimentary bike lock ups courtesy of Cycle Toronto, located outside of Gate 1.

For fans using Bike Share Toronto to get to and from Rogers Stadium events, we will have Bike Share Toronto docks at the venue on event days only, located outside of Gate 1.

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chrisw said:
@11th Yes, but most suburbanites don't walk or take transit.
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That's why I said it's a generalization, and don't assume "suburbanite" automatically equals to car usage everywhere. Large population in the inner suburbs do take transit.
On the other hand, I have friends from denser cities complained about a kilometre walk because where they came from, transit coverage is great so they never had to walk far.
 
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I'm surprised this place is only hosting 15 shows this year - is there really no demand in Toronto for a venue this size?
 
There's another 13/14 shows that have happened/will happen at Rogers Centre this year. Roughly 30 shows of 40,000+ people seems about right.
 
This stadium has made the Pioneer Village parking lot useful.

It's actually pretty full tonight
 
I was reading this coverage at CBC and it mentioned "a new plan to funnel crowds toward three nearby subway stops instead of overwhelming the closest station, Downsview Park". Other than Shepard West, what 3rd subway stop is nearby?
 
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I was reading this coverage at CBC and it mentioned "a new plan to funnel crowds toward three nearby subway stops instead of overwhelming the closest station, Downsview Park". Other than Shepard West, what 3rd subway stop is nearby?
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Wilson, although that would have to involve a lot more walking and a pedestrian path to exit the property at the south end of the airfield.
Edit (22 July 2025): It looks there is now a walking path to an exit gate onto the sidewalk at Wilson Ave. https://www.rogers-stadium.com/know-before-you-go
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Towered said:
Coldplay got in a good dig at this stadium's expense.
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I hadn't thought of it, but I wonder if maybe the acts and their management that book their tours might feel that they were somewhat duped into having shows at this "stadium" that's really just an outdoor music festival site with some temporary scaffolding stands in the middle of an abandoned airfield?
Supposedly the start of this Downsview project was this act being unable to arrange shows at the downtown baseball stadium, so maybe it's a "Don't blame us for this".
https://news.pollstar.com/2025/07/0...um-opening-with-stray-kids-coldplay-concerts/
... This is last year, at the end of a call with global tour promoter [Jared Braverman] for Coldplay that works with us, said, “Can’t you just build us a stadium?” He was kind of half-joking. Then, we started to ideate the whole concept..
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Went to the Coldplay concert last night. The experience was pretty solid. Getting into the grounds was pretty fluid. Ample porta potties, and hand wash stations. Lots of water refill stations all around. Abundant food and drinks vendors. Expensive but that's consistent with any event venue space nowadays.

Adding the black meshing to cover the metal scaffolding helps. No issues with finding seats. The lighting effects and fireworks were pretty cool.

Getting out of the grounds takes some time but smoother than I would've expected. They stagger people at a checkpoint leaving the grounds so the Downsview Park station doesn't get hammered by crowds too badly. They had lots of subway trains running so there were no issues with overcrowding at all. Parking was very ample at Pioneer Village station.


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They need the stage to be wider. The guy on one side might still be able to see the guys on the other side.

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Negative stories about Rogers Stadium are 'branding poison' for the sponsor, marketers say (Canadian Press)
"I don't think anyone really knows that Live Nation is operationally in charge. But that's the kind of assumptions that we have. The place says Rogers, clearly Rogers must be in charge, right? But that's not the case," said Giesler...

But the location was a source of confusion for some, who thought they were attending a show at the similarly named Rogers Centre, located downtown. Brian Ellis, who came to the show from Detroit, was among the concertgoers who booked accommodations next to the Rogers Centre under the mistaken belief he'd be able to walk to the show on Monday.
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