Matchday Parking

Roadside parking on Grimsby Road is to be limited to 2hrs. The objective behind this is to stop roadside advertising of cars for sale.

It appears that GTFC were considered but the councillor believes that most fans park in side streets and will not be affected. He obviously has never travelled to the game by car (if at all), as my experience is that fans park whereever there is a space and as 2hrs is not long enough, the side streets will be chaos while Grimsby Road remains relatively empty.

Most properties along there are terrace so residents with cars will also need to find alternative spaces in the side streets.

This would have been easily resolved, for the fans at least, by making it 3hrs.

This could also put some potential fans off going to the game.

I can't believe that this has been approved, is it April 1st?

http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk.....17-detail/story.html

Typical mate....clueless...

I agree...... I always have parked my car along Grimsby Road and usually arrive  between 2 - 2.30pm. I will now be facing a parking ticket .

like you mentioned, why not make it 3 hours.


Good old NEL Council.

Park car at 2:55pm, get back to it at 4:55pm. Job done. If that is too tighter period then just bloody park in one of the side streets. It's easy enough to find somewhere to park less than 10 minutes walk away from Blundell Park.

I thought it was 2 hours anyway   Getting parked on the side streets isn't really a hassle while the crowds are below 5k

Quoted from Chrisblor

Park car at 2:55pm, get back to it at 4:55pm. Job done. If that is too tighter period then just bloody park in one of the side streets. It's easy enough to find somewhere to park less than 10 minutes walk away from Blundell Park.

If you park at 2:55 and have a 10 minute walk, you miss Town's first goal.

It is easy (ish) to find a space in a side street now but it won't be when everyone has to do it.

Come on have you seen the side streets on matchday? Blundell ave, comb street etc are rammed...your best bet would be queen Mary ave area..

Quoted from Super Clive

Come on have you seen the side streets on matchday? Blundell ave, comb street etc are rammed...your best bet would be queen Mary ave area..

i never have a problem parking down there. If i am running late i park alongside Sidney Park. Don't ever remember having to park on QMA

I drive up with a friend of mine from the West Midlands so really don't know Grimsby very well but we always park on one of the side roads connecting to the Grimsby Road - so I guess we'll be ok!

We will have plenty of parking spaces at our new stadium.

Coming soon !!!!!!!!!!!  

Quoted from ivanosandwich

If you park at 2:55 and have a 10 minute walk, you miss the oppositions first goal.

It is easy (ish) to find a space in a side street now but it won't be when everyone has to do it.

Changed it for you

Quoted from tintowner

I agree...... I always have parked my car along Grimsby Road and usually arrive  between 2 - 2.30pm. I will now be facing a parking ticket .

like you mentioned, why not make it 3 hours.


Good old NEL Council.

Don't blame the Council - blame the irresponsible people who use Grimsby Road as a used car salesroom. To quote a White Stripes song - Don't Take The Effect And Make It The Cause.

Quoted from rancido

Don't blame the Council - blame the irresponsible people who use Grimsby Road as a used car salesroom. To quote a White Stripes song - Don't Take The Effect And Make It The Cause.

"Having a restriction of two hours will prevent people parking cars there for two or three weeks at a time. We also feel it will allow sufficient time for people visiting the shops to do their business"

They could introduce a no selling cars policy on the main road and limited parking times for businesses.  The 2 hour policy is targeting GTFC's business model.

Although I can't see it being a major issue if you park up at 14:45 and arrive just after 16:45 to get your car.

If its a ploy to stop second hand car sales I'd say the vultures will be called off on matchdays by the council as a PR exercise .







YEAH RIGHT THE FOOKING WANKRES ARE RUBBING THEIR HANDS TOGETHER THINKING ABOUT THE EXTRA CASH THEY'RE GOING TO RAKE IN FROM HAPLESS COUNCIL TAX PAYERS !!

Whether it's the new stadium or parking these "residents" are starting to get my goat.

So bascially it's "let's prevent cars clogging up the highway by clogging up the already clogged up sidestreets" ?

Sure THOSE residents will love that too !

If people are put off Grimsby Road businesses because they can't be bothered to walk a few yards from a sidestreet then are they really that bothered to start off with ?

Perhaps so but if you ask me this has the feel of the "badger cull" - i.e. let's potentially cause loads of hassle and suffering just so we might be a bit better off elsewhere.

Talk about timing, good move to bring out a 2 hour (fgs) rule NOW when gates are finally on the up.

And why are the club declining to comment when they're in danger of losing supporters in transit who may end up giving it all up as a bad job if it turns into a nightmare?

Tbf maybe it won't be a problem but on the face of it, it all seems a bit unnecessary and it's certainly a bit concerning.

On average, 9 cars are for sale at any one time.
The residents will suffer for this.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Park car at 2:55pm, get back to it at 4:55pm. Job done. If that is too tighter period then just bloody park in one of the side streets. It's easy enough to find somewhere to park less than 10 minutes walk away from Blundell Park.

I always park off queen mary avenue, 5 to 10 mins walk and never a problem parking.

Quoted from STB

On average, 9 cars are for sale at any one time.
The residents will suffer for this.

I bet there is more than 9 pieces of dog excrement on the pavements in the surrounding streets, in fact you could probably build nine cars out of dog excrement and maybe the council will act  

If only there was some way of detecting which cars were for sale...

Quoted from Marinerz93

I bet there is more than 9 pieces of dog excrement on the pavements in the surrounding streets, in fact you could probably build nine cars out of dog excrement and maybe the council will act  

if the mileage is correct, I will give you 300 quid, thats my final offer

Quoted from Marinerz93

I bet there is more than 9 pieces of dog excrement on the pavements in the surrounding streets, in fact you could probably build nine cars out of dog excrement and maybe the council will act  

I dont see much dog excrement on the streets surrounding the stadium

Quoted from ska face

If only there was some way of detecting which cars were for sale...

Quoted from aaron rattray

I dont see much dog excrement on the streets surrounding the stadium

Although I've seen quite a lot inside the stadium in the last few years (ho fucking ho)

Why not just prohibit car sales on the Road, ffs why do we all have to suffer!

Quoted from 1054

if the mileage is correct, I will give you 300 quid, thats my final offer

Mileage, the owners would only go a couple of streets so it looks like an easy £300  

Im pretty sure they wouldnt try and do anything on match days

Councillors acting on a subject they have no idea about. I would like to challenge the councillor responsible to show good will to the poll tax paying supporters
and give an alternative on match days such as free buses and park and ride paid for by the parking fines from this ill thoughtout policy. IMO this is designed to make more money from us or they would make it 3 hours.
They are just a bunch of out of touch people voted in by a couple of hundred voters and have no interest in what football does for this town because if they did we would have had a new staduim bloody years ago.  

8am - 6pm Monday to Saturday so at least night games won't be affected.

They could quite easily change this to 4pm on match days allowing people to arrive after 2.

i'm surprised 80s glory-hole hasn't blamed the trust for the parking problems around the ground

Quoted from marinerian

Why not just prohibit car sales on the Road, ffs why do we all have to suffer!

It already is an offence under the highways act and also under the clean neighbourhoods act (offering 2 or more cars for sale). Other councils just tow them away

Quoted from gaz57

Councillors acting on a subject they have no idea about. I would like to challenge the councillor responsible to show good will to the poll tax paying supporters
and give an alternative on match days such as free buses and park and ride paid for by the parking fines from this ill thoughtout policy. IMO this is designed to make more money from us or they would make it 3 hours.
They are just a bunch of out of touch people voted in by a couple of hundred voters and have no interest in what football does for this town because if they did we would have had a new staduim bloody years ago.  

What we need is someone within the club who has good connections with the council to bring this up....any thoughts?

Absolute disgrace another money making racket, just ban roadside selling or allow a dispensation on match days

But on the flipside they are removing most of the resident parking schemes in other areas of Town as the residents couldnt be bothered to respond !!
Give in one hand and take with the other...proper politicians.

Regardless of time of arrival i find if you are actually capable of reversing into a parking spot you can get parked within three streets of the ground anyway.
Plenty of drivers roll straight past spots which they could fit into if they had the necessary skill. .....and not all of them women.  

come on get real this is not a problem, there are only 3-4000 going to the match. The area coped when we had 10000 going or even more. Don't be so bloody lazy, just park further way and walk, you know put one foot in front of the other.

Quoted from Henryscat

8am - 6pm Monday to Saturday so at least night games won't be affected.

They could quite easily change this to 4pm on match days allowing people to arrive after 2.

I agree , I am sure that would work because,

The traffic wardens finish work at 4-00pm on a Saturday. ( well they do down here )

When do these parking changes actually come into effect?

or for all the real men out there...just tell the mrs not to make plans as she is dropping you off and picking you up.

Quoted from oldun

come on get real this is not a problem, there are only 3-4000 going to the match. The area coped when we had 10000 going or even more. Don't be so bloody lazy, just park further way and walk, you know put one foot in front of the other.

Not really a case of that for me, I sometimes walk all the way down Isaacs Hill and Grimsby Road.
Guess it's more a case of arsing about finding your normal parking spot might have gone, reversing etc and making other plans.
But yeah see your point hopefully it shouldn't be a big deal...

Quoted from oldun

come on get real this is not a problem, there are only 3-4000 going to the match. The area coped when we had 10000 going or even more. Don't be so bloody lazy, just park further way and walk, you know put one foot in front of the other.

People aren't used to walking from the docks in clogs to the match like they did in your day  

I live near old clee church, I walk with my 75 year old father in law and a friend, takes us half an hour but the old man enjoy's it.

Quoted from ska face

If only there was some way of detecting which cars were for sale...

Haha, funny as fook...

Did anybody have a problem parking today ?

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Quoted from grimsby pete

Did anybody have a problem parking today ?

The missus did at Tescos

Quoted from tintowner

The missus did at Tescos

It's a well known fact that women can't park