New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[malcson]

Walking at 6mph is called jogging.

Average human walking speed is 3-4 mph so a mile every 15-20 minutes.

 

[John from Bootle]

The buses heading out to Bootle and beyond from town stop on one side of what is known locally as the Rotunda. Heading out to Walton and beyond buses stop on the other side. There are also some routes heading north easterly which stop on Great Homer Street by the new Notre Dame school. All in all there are options for people heading from town or Southender's and Wirralites to catch a buses to BMD. I'd say it is a 10/15 minute walk down the hill at Boundary Street to BMD. Possibly only 2 minutes for people on here who have competed at Olympic level. And anyone with sense would buy the abandoned Cunard pub on the corner and do it up.

Yeah, there's also the 54 which goes down Commercial Rd/Vauxhall Rd. It's only half hourly like, but somewhat a bonus for anybody waiting for a bus to Scotty (for BMD.)

There's still a need for buses that go closer to the ground though, imo. There needs to be at least one regular bus to Great Howard Street. From what I can gather there's now a service 136 that has replaced the old 103 service but only runs at weekday peak times. Slightly different route, via Bootle Bus Station.

It's operated by Huyton Travel, so you would think they'd be looking at/hoping to expanding that service?

I'm not sure one regular service would be enough though.

 

[charlie atkins]

Surely we are guessing about transport, by the time it's built bus and train companies will alter all their timetables, well hopefully

 

[charlie atkins]

Who arsed what pace anyone can walk, when we're there and we win, we will all float back into town, ending up in.the Rubber Soul being chatted up by Hen Night slags from Newcastle.

Best one yet...... next

 

[John from Bootle]

Surely we are guessing about transport, by the time it's built bus and train companies will alter all their timetables, well hopefully

I fear it's not that straightforward.

It's a part of Liverpool the major bus companies appear to have no interest in. Are they gonna reroute buses permanently for one, maybe two events per fortnight? And no games for 3 months during the summer?

We need Ten Streets and Liverpool Waters alongside us, if we are to get many permanent routes I feel. But that will come.

 

[PSB1]

For you tubsters it’ll take 15 minutes to walk from Sandhills to Bank Hall, that doesn’t include stopping off at the Sandhillls Cafe to get a Mars bar either

All very well, but is there a sedan chair service to town centre?

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

I’ve seen the future and the future is the beer bike from town to BMD

 

[charlie atkins]

I fear it's not that straightforward.

It's a part of Liverpool the major bus companies appear to have no interest in. Are they gonna reroute buses permanently for one, maybe two events per fortnight? And no games for 3 months during the summer?

We need Ten Streets and Liverpool Waters alongside us, if we are to get many permanent routes I feel. But that will come.

n they wont do it just for the stadium,as you say, but i would think pubs ,restaurants, shopping centre, homes and attractions would make it beneficial

 

[Barca Blue]

Walking at 6mph is called jogging.

It’s frickin pegging it that mate at my age

 

[blue61]

It’s frickin pegging it that mate at my age

Same here!

 

[riddick]

When is the proverbial shovel going in to the ground? Any idea? Haven't been in here in a couple weeks and reckon would take me ages to go through everything.

 

[MACCA75]

When is the proverbial shovel going in to the ground? Any idea? Haven't been in here in a couple weeks and reckon would take me ages to go through everything.

Cancelled it because there isn’t an adequate bus route.

 

[riddick]

Cancelled it because there isn’t an adequate bus route.

Ah, makes sense. I doubt the city want to get more traffic to the area since I surmise there is a lot of pegging going on. At least, that's what I can figure out from the last couple posts on here.

 

[Onwards Evertonians]

When is the proverbial shovel going in to the ground? Any idea? Haven't been in here in a couple weeks and reckon would take me ages to go through everything.

They just need to sign a few things off now, buying the land off Peel, getting a licence to relocate the fish, no doubt tying up bits and pieces with Laing O Rourke, all of them formalities I'd imagine. We're hoping for an early Summer start.

 

[Tom Hughes]

I fear it's not that straightforward.

It's a part of Liverpool the major bus companies appear to have no interest in. Are they gonna reroute buses permanently for one, maybe two events per fortnight? And no games for 3 months during the summer?

We need Ten Streets and Liverpool Waters alongside us, if we are to get many permanent routes I feel. But that will come.

You're right, it isn't straight forward at all. It really does require a lot of new infrastructure and adjustments to work.

We're going from an old ground with multiple bus services just a short walk away to one with next none at present.... and what there is in bus terms being quite distant.

There are potential solutions, but the transport plan is quite cursory in demonstrating them. The relative proximity to the city-centre and the city's largest pool of buses and the northern line should be this site's saving grace, but that is dependent on the few traffic lanes serving it being free enough to allow continuous access a flow of shuttle buses.

Extending Merseyrail along the waterfront to serve all the new developments directly.... and loop lines would be a real game changer. Rerouting a number of north end buses to great howard st, and extending a proportion of other routes to Liverpool waters too could greatly improve access. Otherwise, this is barely the city centre stadium we hoped it would be, and could easily be one of the grounds that empties early because people cannot get away easily.