Nice, and this is what we get in the US. ;-)
American's sure as heck don't wan't to pay for a velodrome (just look at Boston's problems).
Heck, even if it is fully funded, the locals around here go ape. With our first velodrome, you should have seen all of the yard signs stating
“say NO to the velodrome” when most of those people had never heard of a velodrome. Shoot, we get more people to the park for a highschool track meet or mountain bike race than we ever got for a velodrome night (and no one protests those events).
Similar resistance is happening with the Detroit proposal. The land has been an empty building, then a vacant patch of dirt and weeds (we have lots of those) for over a decade, and still we get strong resistance with comments like:
"They are going to be right next to the senior citizens. I don't think that is going to be good,"
Like empty fields, abandoned buildings, and crack houses are better? I scratch my head sometimes...