Parking around Blundell Park

"Mr Sheard" sent me this article which I am putting on here.

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Why is it that supporters want to park their cars etc outside the ground, and in so doing foul up the streets around Blundell Park?
There is a super bus service in both directions in Grimsby Road, so why not park and ride?

I see cars literally abandoned each home game, parked illegally, on house and shop fronts, across drives and pavement drops. Why do they do it? Come on you “supporters”, you would not stand for this at your own homes, you would want to get in and out, or park on your own drive. There is a good case for a park and ride and serious enforcement. Both would provide safe, trouble-free parking and clearer street for all persons, be they fans or just pedestrians, to enjoy a better experience.

Now tell me I am wrong.

I used the bus today but there is simply not the capacity for everyone to use it. They are already quite full, especially on the way home. Even if the bus company layed on extra buses they just won't have anywhere near the quantity of vehicles or drivers to cope.

When you park legally they see their @rse anyway, they think they own the bit of road outside of their house.

He bought a house there, the club was there first, my mesage to you Mr Sheard, is shutup moaning

I’d rather push my car to BP than get the bus but each to their own.

Unfortunately you only buy the house not the road.

Needs to be a proper shuttle service between BP and Town.

Also, learn the lessons for the new ground and plan in adequate public transport, walking and cycle routes so people have other options.  PP (assuming it ever happens!) is at the centre of a 3 mile radius of 90% of North East Lincolnshire's population, so there's no reason the club shouldn't be aiming to negate the need for private cars, which are a massively inefficient use of precious floorspace around a new ground.

Illegal parking is wrong. Wherever it is. End of.

If it's people parking legally in the streets around the ground then he hasn't got a leg to stand on. It's one of those thing you have to accept if you move near a football ground in an area like that where there are no big car parks. It's going to happen.

As for buses, you'll need 50 double decker bus journeys for just 3500 people (let's say the rest are away fans on the train and a few drivers/walkers). All arriving/departing within a 1 hour window before and after the game. So the buses will need to unload and load up a full complement of passengers near enough every minute. Let's be generous and extend the time window to an hour and forty minutes before and after, and say two minutes. Logistically impossible. Of course if there is stoppage time the buses will have to park up and wait for a bit longer. Somewhere.

Then where are the parking spaces for the drivers at the start/end of the journey or along the route?

As for routes to the ground, people are coming from north, south and west of the ground. Are they all to be funnelled along to the ends of Cleethorpe and Grimsby Roads? You'll then be funnelling traffic that might otherwise come across the middle into those two points.

Suppose, parking spaces were there for people to park and then walk up to the bus stop for the route to/from BP. How is parking around BP going to be enforced so it's residents only? Obviously you need wardens, and wardens cost money. The cost of 'prosecutions' can be covered out of the fines collected, but there'll still be the patrolling costs. In most places where there are residents only parking schemes the residents pay an annual fee for the permit. They're usually allowed a limited number of passes for their visitors - let's set aside the possibility of a roaring black market trade in these for match days.

Is Mr Sheard prepared to pay for a residents only scheme, and to persuade his neighbours it's a good idea too? And are they prepared to lobby the council to arrange for a decent park and ride scheme, with enough suitable parking in places that isn't going to create congestion in other parts of the town? And persuade the council to find a way of enforcing it on the bus company? All for a cost that is fair and reasonable to people going to the match (who are tax payers too).

Sounds like the solution is in Mr Sheard's hands.

Soooo,
in summary....





fck off you whining tw@t.  

Quoted from moosey_club

Soooo,
in summary....





fck off you whining tw@t.  

You might well say that but I couldn't possibly comment.