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My experience is the same as that of promotion plaice, and I've had a few bad experiences parking in perfectly legal spaces. (I tend to park on or around Queen Mary Avenue).
Having said that, I would use a Park & Ride if available. How about flattening Great Coates and using that as a giant park & ride car park?
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Maybe Mr Sheard could write to the local council, for the attention of Mr deFreitas and suggest we have a new stadium with lots of parking?
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How many cars are parked illegally? My guess would be less than 1%.
You get the same in Town centres. Basically anywhere were you get a few people attending
Best thing would be to get a nice new ground were many more people can walk, cycle and get the bus to. Everyone's a winner
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Before I moved away I actually lived on Sydney St which is where I park now oddly enough. This was at the time of Buckley MK1 so attendances where good. When it was a night game I had the double whammy of getting home about 7.15 from work trying to park close to home and then legging it to BP for kick off, usually I have to move the car after the game so I can see how frustrating this can be especially if people park illegally.
A park and ride would help as would some proper road markings on corners etc...there is plenty of space to set something up and it would gather some good will locally. What I don’t understand is why this is suddenly an issue though after years with bigger attendances at BP.
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It's for 3 hours a fortnight.
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I see cars literally abandoned
Literally? So the have no keeper on the DVLA database and are untaxed, stationary for a significant amount of time (this would be more than couple of hours), they’re significantly damaged, run down or unroadworthy - with flat tyres, wheels removed or broken windows they’re burned out they have number plates missing? I literally suggest you learn the meaning of the word literally.
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on house and shop fronts,
Could you point out to me which particular section of law prohibits parking on the roadside in front of someone's house.
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acrosss and pavement drops
report it to the council and get them ticketed. Although I'd love to know how often you genuinely see this, in the all the years of walking up from Queen Mary Ave I've only seen it a couple of times, and how you know the cars belong to people going to Blundell Park and not to friends and family of the owners of the driveway. |
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I would use a park and ride service if it was available,
BUT
It is not so I think you should address your comments to the council.
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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.
Near top town residents in the side streets around Lord Street, got the council to bring in a residents only scheme and most are now trying to get rid off it due to extortionate rising costs from the council year on year. It's the same in parts of Lincoln and elsewhere, a good idea to start with but every council seems to increase costs for these every year. The problem in some areas is double yellow lines on both sides of the road which in most places is unnecessary for example around Louth town centre. The club was there before Mr Sheard and the issue of parking back when we in the Championship was well known maybe he is new to the area. A park and ride is a good idea however is not the clubs remit to provide one so he needs to write to the council. One thing he has to bear in mind is that park and ride requires you to pay where if you just park your car near the ground there is no cost, which does he think will happen. When our group go to BP we get dropped off by the missus and picked up at the end. |
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Usually 2 or 3 enforcement officer patrolling round B.P. on matchdays.
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I live close to the ground, and yes it is a pain on matchdays, but hey! the ground was there before i moved there so i get on with it and have learned to adapt and accept it. No big deal.
I also only nouth the house, not the road outside.
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