Sandhills station

[Joey66]

Yes, as we all know Bill Kenwright handled all of the public transport provision under his remit as guy in charge of Merseytravel.

Any business would sort transport out from day one in a contract - BK was just habitual as a chairman for making a mess of everything - any business that does not have an annual AGM with its shareholders - says it all really ....
Crying now about lack of parking, transport of any form should have been agreed from day one in a contract between our club & the city council transport department in the whole region & area of travel when planning was applied for .....
Business cannot be carried out under a nod wink basis as BK was known to do = e.g. the Kirkby debacle ..... was a prime example did the fans ever find out how much that cost the club ? {a lot of fans were against that move anyway} -

If a business does not have AGMs for shareholders - these problems in advance cannot be debated & sorted ....

Another mess left for the new owners to sort out, perhaps ?

I heard about all the double yellow lines around BMD being put down just 2 weeks ago ....

 

[Charlie Sweet]

The restrictions are draconian and illogical anyway, regardless of the new ground, they make zero sense for the businesses who were already there, and no economic sense for the area that will be under massive redevelopment. Rotherham needs sacking tbh.

There is no way after last night that the restrictions can stand, particularly as there are no suitable pubic transport options available for the foreseeable. Add thousands more Evertonians and a few thousand away supporters into the mix and it’s a recipe for disaster.

I was planning on using the soccerbus from commutation row after parking the car in lime street, but I ended up late, so parked and jumped into a taxi. Cost me a tenner to get to regent Road and jump out near the Costco, due to the road closures, so had to walk most of the way. Ridiculous - the taxi driver was going mad as well to be fair to him.

Leaving the ground, I had an idea that Sandhills would be a mess, so I made the kids walk ball along regent road back to town. Took me a little longer than if I was on my own, but it wasn’t too bad tbh, bit nippy weather wise and the kids moaning didn’t help!

Nothing but positive things to say about our new home, it’s a magnificent football ground, we were awe struck, and the concourses and food were great.

It’s World class.

The transport and draconian road closures are the only issue and need addressing quickly, hopefully the feedback from the test event will drive the changes needed.

For the first time ever I agree with you on every word. It felt last night like the test event preparing for a Euros semi final. Am sure something will get sorted or its going to be an early arrival / late exit every game and simply get a cab as best I can

 

[Terrarian]

I use Northern on a regular basis and that is also a terrible service, yes.

The forgotten people us up in the NW, everything is catered for London, even HS2 stops at Manchester, the journey on Northern through Lancaster and Cumbria is a disgrace and the prices are scandalous.

Sorry off topic. Sandhills won't cope with full matchday crowd and the City have only 6 months to sort it out.

 

[Sweeneytoad]

Even the pavements around there need a serious overhaul, some of them are those pointy pyramid ones designed to stop people parking on the pavement. Problem is they are now on the main walking route back to Sandhills and will likely break a few ankles until they are changed.

 

[Charro]

The forgotten people us up in the NW, everything is catered for London, even HS2 stops at Manchester, the journey on Northern through Lancaster and Cumbria is a disgrace and the prices are scandalous.

Sorry off topic. Sandhills won't cope with full matchday crowd and the City have only 6 months to sort it out.

That’s the journey I have to take most times.

Liverpool up to Roose.

Via merseyrail.

How I haven’t killed I don’t know.

 

[Tipp blue]

It about 25 mins to walk into town you flabby whingers

People will be longer than that waiting for a train.

 

[Connor]

I parked up by the Pits last night and walked down via Boundary.

They're going to need to convert a load of those traffic lights to have buttons for pedestrians too. You're taking a gamble everytime.

 

[Walken]

I parked up by the Pits last night and walked down via Boundary.

They're going to need to convert a load of those traffic lights to have buttons for pedestrians too. You're taking a gamble everytime.

And folk want more cars in the city, mental.

 

[ClausThomsen]

I heard about all the double yellow lines around BMD being put down just 2 weeks ago ....

Not overly familiar with the BMD area but was there a pressing need to have them painted earlier? 2 weeks before a test event that takes place months before the official opening seems pretty adequate to me as far as road markings go.

Everything else looks a mess though I'll agree. Lets hope last night wasn't about testing anything close to the finalised transport arrangements and was instead about testing other stuff to do with the ground.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Wools heading across the Mersey on match days.

Those lifejackets best be 'burnt orange' and not red.

 

[edge]

I use Northern on a regular basis and that is also a terrible service, yes.

I work for them they are crap.
Used to work on Merseyrail and they are far more professional and better service.

 

[Blue toffee]

Unfortunately merseyrail is the worst rail network in the county and will collapse under any extra demand.

Rotherham has his head in the sand. He’s caused this with rushing through the new trains when they weren’t ready and the implementation of head bolt lane has been a disaster and trains are constantly delayed or cancelled.

Merseyrail is nowhere near one of the worst rail networks in the country.

 

[Connor]

Just in the last hour

 

[Charro]

Merseyrail is nowhere near one of the worst rail networks in the country.

How often do you use it?

 

[Bagpuss]

I honestly don’t know why they haven’t put a train station on the dock road specifically for the stadium. Im sure it was spoken about and thought that when they took forever repairing the bridge by Costco Years ago on Great Howard St it was because they wanted to keep the possibility of reopening the existing line out the tunnel rather than backfilling it? If they had thought that far ahead why they haven’t looked at sorting that is beyond me, especially when they have decided to waste money on the station near Cains Brewery which won’t have anything like the need the new stadium will garner.