What the fascination back home with stadiums having roofs?
It adds a lot of cost for an often not great improvement to the sport/concert event but adds significant initial build and maintenance costs.
NZ has a problem of trying to platinum plate everything and then due too cost nothing happens at all e.g. Auckland light rail.
Here in Blighty where the weather is permanently shark, it's only the Millennium stadium in Cardiff that has one.
It's really only the USA, Canada and Japan where you get more then one or two and that's due to some of those places being properly cold and snowy, not an issue NZ has, even in Dunedin.
It adds a lot of cost for an often not great improvement to the sport/concert event but adds significant initial build and maintenance costs.
NZ has a problem of trying to platinum plate everything and then due too cost nothing happens at all e.g. Auckland light rail.
Here in Blighty where the weather is permanently shark, it's only the Millennium stadium in Cardiff that has one.
It's really only the USA, Canada and Japan where you get more then one or two and that's due to some of those places being properly cold and snowy, not an issue NZ has, even in Dunedin.