Alternatively, instead of musing amongst yourselves as to the likely provision of parking facilities at Kirkby, you could simply read the 6th page of the document sent out with the petition for an EGM, all handily linked for you on the Toffeeweb Homepage?
Top right corner, lead story I suppose - shouldn't be able to miss it.
In summary, there will be 2,500 spaces within 20 minutes of the ground; at 3 passengers (average) per car (Steers Davies' report; Everton/Tesco's consultants), that's 7,500 spectators. The other 42,500 can swivel. I'll let you read the rest of the item and then we'll pick up the thread from there.
To contrast the matchgoing experiences outlined earlier, travel from Birkenhead to Walton - 40 minutes, inclusive of 25 minutes in pub in Birkenhead. Park up off Westminster Road, walk to pub - say 10 minutes. Walk to the ground, 5 minutes. No fees involved in parking; 15 minutes drive, 15 minutes walk in aggregate. Going home - pop into pub for one and thne back to Birkenhead - traffic has died down by then; we avoid County Road anyway by using Stanley - options, options. None available at Kirkby unfortunately (yes, I 've been there before you ask!)
I'm sure that Colney will be alright (although the club have yet to specifically declare the disabled provisions) but that just means more of the rest of us able-bodied will be at least 30 minutes walk away from the ground (Kirkby residents excepted - do your own calculations!). And the 'transport' improvements are road widenings to assist the retail side of the developement and the away team coach; they'll be of minimal benefit for the ordinary matchgoing Joe and won't involve any enhancement of public transport. Junction improvements at Valley Road are irrelevant if you're on the East Lancs, the side of town where the 'park and hike' sites will be. Going to get through a load of Kendal Mint Cake, if I were to go!
Top right corner, lead story I suppose - shouldn't be able to miss it.In summary, there will be 2,500 spaces within 20 minutes of the ground; at 3 passengers (average) per car (Steers Davies' report; Everton/Tesco's consultants), that's 7,500 spectators. The other 42,500 can swivel. I'll let you read the rest of the item and then we'll pick up the thread from there.
To contrast the matchgoing experiences outlined earlier, travel from Birkenhead to Walton - 40 minutes, inclusive of 25 minutes in pub in Birkenhead. Park up off Westminster Road, walk to pub - say 10 minutes. Walk to the ground, 5 minutes. No fees involved in parking; 15 minutes drive, 15 minutes walk in aggregate. Going home - pop into pub for one and thne back to Birkenhead - traffic has died down by then; we avoid County Road anyway by using Stanley - options, options. None available at Kirkby unfortunately (yes, I 've been there before you ask!)
I'm sure that Colney will be alright (although the club have yet to specifically declare the disabled provisions) but that just means more of the rest of us able-bodied will be at least 30 minutes walk away from the ground (Kirkby residents excepted - do your own calculations!). And the 'transport' improvements are road widenings to assist the retail side of the developement and the away team coach; they'll be of minimal benefit for the ordinary matchgoing Joe and won't involve any enhancement of public transport. Junction improvements at Valley Road are irrelevant if you're on the East Lancs, the side of town where the 'park and hike' sites will be. Going to get through a load of Kendal Mint Cake, if I were to go!
Anyway, the topic was routes to GP - keep up (no lagging behind, it's KO in 10 minutes and we're in the 40 minutes away car park). Of course, we could go on about parking on the Liverpool side of the M57 etc (lollipop men on the motorway!b)), but those areas will quickly get Residents Parking Scheme'd. And have you seen the price of fuel - so that's a 'no' to long winding diversions!
