Sandhills station

Not sure of where that station development is, but I expect there won`t be 50 odd thousand people heading to that area every other weekend between mid August and late May, along with some events over the summer months. I wonder where the 100million is being spent? Maybe going to build a footbridge and a cattle pen.
It's on Stanhope St. opposite St. James church. The surrounding area is home to thousands of people and growing. Formerly St. James station but been closed for a century although trains pass through. It's in a deep cutting so needs lifts etc. and a surface level station building but how they arrive at £100m I don't know.
 

It's on Stanhope St. opposite St. James church. The surrounding area is home to thousands of people and growing. Formerly St. James station but been closed for a century although trains pass through. It's in a deep cutting so needs lifts etc. and a surface level station building but how they arrive at £100m I don't know.
Headbolt Lane had none of those issues and cost £80m.
 
Not sure of where that station development is, but I expect there won`t be 50 odd thousand people heading to that area every other weekend between mid August and late May, along with some events over the summer months. I wonder where the 100million is being spent? Maybe going to build a footbridge and a cattle pen.
No but it'll get more daily, weekly & annual users though. It also helps reduce pressure on Lpool Central platform.
 

If you want to see what a mayor does in another major city for its transport, look at Birmingham's for Aston Villa's stadium expansion.

I cannot fathom how Rotherham is our metro mayor. He's done absolutely nothing apart from higher a PR team to take photos of him pointing at things like Kim Jong Un.
 

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The Baltic station has been in the pipeline for much longer (over 10yrs), with the whole Baltic triangle area further on in its redevelopment phase. It is also about taking some pressure off central station and spreading the density of the city centre along the waterfront. So it wasn't really an either/or issue, this simply had the go ahead much earlier because it had the more favourable CBR, which is what council's need when bidding for new infrastructure funding.

A once a fortnight venue alone rarely commands that, hence the reason why so many clubs have had to part or fully fund infrastructure themselves. Peel have been sitting on much of Central and North Docks for years and have delivered very little in that time.... to create sufficient CBR.

I think BMD was initially heavily reliant on the CWG bid, which would've almost certainly delivered a Vauxhall Stn with approx £800m+ of government funding becoming available. The North end redevelopments have been largely stalled for yrs. It's a bit chicken and egg regards the required infrastructure, but hopefully we'll start to see some movement and the whole waterfront can become better connected into the city centre by metro, and maybe its own dedicated people-mover at some point.
 
If you want to see what a mayor does in another major city for its transport, look at Birmingham's for Aston Villa's stadium expansion.

I cannot fathom how Rotherham is our metro mayor. He's done absolutely nothing apart from higher a PR team to take photos of him pointing at things like Kim Jong Un.
They've not done anything yet though.🤷‍♂️
 

The Baltic station has been in the pipeline for much longer (over 10yrs), with the whole Baltic triangle area further on in its redevelopment phase. It is also about taking some pressure off central station and spreading the density of the city centre along the waterfront. So it wasn't really an either/or issue, this simply had the go ahead much earlier because it had the more favourable CBR, which is what council's need when bidding for new infrastructure funding.

A once a fortnight venue alone rarely commands that, hence the reason why so many clubs have had to part or fully fund infrastructure themselves. Peel have been sitting on much of Central and North Docks for years and have delivered very little in that time.... to create sufficient CBR.

I think BMD was initially heavily reliant on the CWG bid, which would've almost certainly delivered a Vauxhall Stn with approx £800m+ of government funding becoming available. The North end redevelopments have been largely stalled for yrs. It's a bit chicken and egg regards the required infrastructure, but hopefully we'll start to see some movement and the whole waterfront can become better connected into the city centre by metro, and maybe its own dedicated people-mover at some point.

That's absolute balls mate. The station isn't going to relieve anything from central.
 
If you want to see what a mayor does in another major city for its transport, look at Birmingham's for Aston Villa's stadium expansion.

I cannot fathom how Rotherham is our metro mayor. He's done absolutely nothing apart from higher a PR team to take photos of him pointing at things like Kim Jong Un.

So their Mayor has committed to providing transport improvements in time for the increased volume of traffic from a stadium redevelopment?

What an amateur.

He obviously hasn't consulted with Commander Steve and some of our esteemed posters who believe an evolutionary process, whereby you build a stadium and then tell supporters they live with a make do and mend travel plan until dedicated infrastructure arrives in a decades time.

You can see where Birmingham's Mayor Richard Parker went wrong cant you?
 
Bit of a storm in a tea cup,the London Underground stations that serve the Prem stadiums there have never had many problems with crowds on match day over the years.
 

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