Freemo/New Stadium

How much do you think a park & ride scheme would cost? A car park, couple of bus shelters and a bus running a few hours a day. Hardly gonna break the bank on a project that’s going to cost tens of millions of pounds.

PP’s a non-starter because Fenty’s spent 15 years banging his own drum and hadn’t got a single person on board. A project that the fans are lukewarm on, a “community stadium” in the middle of a community almost universally opposed to the idea, funded by a housing project in a town with no demand for new housing and retail units that were on the way out 20-years ago. He’s not sold the benefits to anyone outside of his own house, despite the council handing him a massive patch of land for free just to help him along the way. Maybe if the club had appointed a proper developer rather than the BMX Bandits we might’ve made some progress.

Freeman Street, and the money being thrown at it, is the only show in town at the minute so he needs to get on board sharpish.

Quoted from ska face

How much do you think a park & ride scheme would cost? A car park, couple of bus shelters and a bus running a few hours a day. Hardly gonna break the bank on a project that’s going to cost tens of millions of pounds.

PP’s a non-starter because Fenty’s spent 15 years banging his own drum and hadn’t got a single person on board. A project that the fans are lukewarm on, a “community stadium” in the middle of a community almost universally opposed to the idea, funded by a housing project in a town with no demand for new housing and retail units that were on the way out 20-years ago. He’s not sold the benefits to anyone outside of his own house, despite the council handing him a massive patch of land for free just to help him along the way. Maybe if the club had appointed a proper developer rather than the BMX Bandits we might’ve made some progress.

Freeman Street, and the money being thrown at it, is the only show in town at the minute so he needs to get on board sharpish.

Regardless of cost, and it certainly isn't as simple as you infer, who would pay for it? It has all the potential for losing money except on match days. Do you think the club should pay for it or the council? You then have to get Stagecoach or some other bus company to buy into it and they will only get involved if they can make money out of it or somebody subsidises it. Park and Ride schemes are only viable in towns that attract a lot of visitors and are either severely congested in their centres or have limited parking. Realistically how many people do you think would use a Park and Ride scheme from the Pyewipe area ( as was suggested) to Freeman Street on a midweek day in the middle of winter?

I’m honestly not interested in arguing the toss over the costs and operational technicalities of a hypothetical park & ride scheme that has only ever been suggested by one person on an Internet forum off the top of their heads for a stadium project that had not even been proposed yet.

How about a park and ride scheme what only runs on match days?

Quoted from ska face

I’m honestly not interested in arguing the toss over the costs and operational technicalities of a hypothetical park & ride scheme that has only ever been suggested by one person on an Internet forum off the top of their heads for a stadium project that had not even been proposed yet.

Fair comment but your post seemed to endorse the fact, so you must have some interest in it or you wouldn't have even mentioned it.

I've got an old double decker-only needs a lick of paint,new set of tyres and something doing to the engine but was very reliable for it's age

Quoted from ska face

How much do you think a park & ride scheme would cost? A car park, couple of bus shelters and a bus running a few hours a day. Hardly gonna break the bank on a project that’s going to cost tens of millions of pounds.

PP’s a non-starter because Fenty’s spent 15 years banging his own drum and hadn’t got a single person on board. A project that the fans are lukewarm on, a “community stadium” in the middle of a community almost universally opposed to the idea, funded by a housing project in a town with no demand for new housing and retail units that were on the way out 20-years ago. He’s not sold the benefits to anyone outside of his own house, despite the council handing him a massive patch of land for free just to help him along the way. Maybe if the club had appointed a proper developer rather than the BMX Bandits we might’ve made some progress.

Freeman Street, and the money being thrown at it, is the only show in town at the minute so he needs to get on board sharpish.

Cracked me right up