Development of stadiums in English football Reading in the top flight (although promotion was not achieved until 2006), so the decision to build a new stadium was made. In 2008 Rotherham United expressed dissatisfaction with their Millmoor home and began to look into the construction of a new stadium in the town. At the start of the 2008–09 season Rotherham United temporarily moved to the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield due to ownership disputes over Millmoor. The Football League told the club that they must return to Rotherham by 2012 which they have done. The club moved to the 12,000-capacity New York Stadium, which opened in
Don Valley Parkway did not have the money and appealed to 'civic-minded citizens' to donate the land on which the highway would be built. None came forward. In 1939, city transportation planner Norman Wilson proposed a boulevard that would follow the valley into the northeast. On January 1, 1946, Toronto voters approved the building of a 'Don Valley Traffic Artery' following the same route as the "speedway" by a vote of 31,882 to 12,328. This was the same plebiscite where Toronto voters approved the construction of the Yonge segment of Line 1. The City then borrowed $1.5 million to finance the project. In