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The pre-season game was the third test event at the stadium, but the first featuring its primary tenant.

The stadium opened on Oct. 1 when the University of Regina Rams defeated the University of Saskatchewan Huskies 37-29 in a Canada West football game. The second test event was Regina Rocks, featuring Bryan Adams, on May 27. Then it was the Roughriders’ turn to break in the new stadium.

“There was lots of good feedback,” Reynolds said. “That’s why we had another test event.

“There were a lot of operational things that we learned. A lot of those are behind the scenes but, for us, they’re really important — and really important to the patron experience.

“We had fantastic transit ridership numbers but, with that, we had some issues that we’re working on with the city to try to resolve, and they’re all resolvable.

“There weren’t any show-stoppers. They were all good learning opportunities and we have a couple of weeks to correct them. We’ll probably be doing that for these first few games as we learn more and more.”

Roughly 8,000 fans used the free Rider Transit shuttle service on June 10. The usage increased eight-fold from the 1,000 citizens who had typically taken the bus to and from games in previous years.

Now the Roughriders and the City of Regina have an idea of how many passengers to expect during the regular season.

“That’s why you do a test event,” Reynolds said. “We were really promoting public transit. We are really excited that people adopted it, but now we have to deliver.