teamsaint Posted 2 January, 2014 Share Posted 2 January, 2014 Useless wallies. I get home to Chandlers Ford within the hour and that includes 30 minutes walking. quite. I walk over to near St Denys station, drive home to near Salisbury, and often get home before 6. Out of town sites are potentially much worse for travel. One major factor is the much smaller number of potential road exit routes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertySFC Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 Can't see it . With all of the work being under taken behind the scenes for hospitality , a new state of the art office complex just completed ( which is just amazing) , the money being spent upon revamping and moving the press areas , think just to much is being put into the ground now to improve it , plus the focus really is on "The View" looking towards Belvidere Road - watch out for "developments" in this area very soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintdarlo Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 You cannot make the comparison between Darlington and Saints on the stadium issue. As an exiled Saints fan here in Darlington holding a Darlo season ticket, I've been through this whole stadium issue, getting shafted by the FA to reforming a new club, ground sharing out if town and now going through another ground building excercise. If you think that video is interesting, you should read the book to get the whole story. Now that is interesting! Sent from my ST26i using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwsaint Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 If SMS was ever extended, then I would expect Southampton City Council to make improved public transport links a condition of the extension, as part of an overall transport review. Anyone know if there have been any recent discussions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertySFC Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 If SMS was ever extended, then I would expect Southampton City Council to make improved public transport links a condition of the extension, as part of an overall transport review. Anyone know if there have been any recent discussions? In May 2013 - the company Steer Davies Gleave were in consultation with the club and council to review sustainable travel provision for the stadium. How far that has gone who knows, but it seems that a projected target is for 80% of fans to use public transport to get to and from the ground . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertySFC Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 (edited) based upon May 13 results - these were the findings from and interesting to hear about "out of town grounds" "Our top 3 were Newcastle United, Arsenal and Fulham. Newcastle are worthy transport champions with initiatives including season-long matchday public transport for just £10. Gunners’ fans make full use of good public transport links, and travel planning since the move to the Emirates has reduced the percentage of fans arriving by car from 30% to 10%. In the relegation zone were Manchester United and Queens Park Rangers, with Reading coming bottom of the table. Old Trafford’s travel plan is nearly a decade out of date and QPR isn’t making the most of London’s public transport links, while Reading has the least accessible ground of all – the Madejski Stadium is 3 miles out of town with poor public transport links." Edited 3 January, 2014 by qwertySFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Sanchez Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 In May 2013 - the company Steer Davies Gleave were in consultation with the club and council to review sustainable travel provision for the stadium. How far that has gone who knows, but it seems that a projected target is for 80% of fans to use public transport to get to and from the ground . If people refer to the possible opening of the line towards the docks they are barking up the wrong tree, if private money was put into it it may happen by network rail have no appetite for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Sanchez Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 based upon May 13 results - these were the findings from and interesting to hear about "out of town grounds" "Our top 3 were Newcastle United, Arsenal and Fulham. Newcastle are worthy transport champions with initiatives including season-long matchday public transport for just £10. Gunners’ fans make full use of good public transport links, and travel planning since the move to the Emirates has reduced the percentage of fans arriving by car from 30% to 10%. In the relegation zone were Manchester United and Queens Park Rangers, with Reading coming bottom of the table. Old Trafford’s travel plan is nearly a decade out of date and QPR isn’t making the most of London’s public transport links, while Reading has the least accessible ground of all – the Madejski Stadium is 3 miles out of town with poor public transport links." Manchester United is poor for the stadium and stature of the club,tram is the only real of doing it, 3 trains a match each direction from Old Trafford to Oxford Road is poor but its already on a busy line so not much can be done, I am surprised Evertons is lower than Liverpool as its easier to get to Goodison than Anfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Duckhunter Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 I tend to rate grounds on the basis of ale houses, particularly real ale ones. I'd agree with Reading being bottom. Despite a decent real ale boozer in town, the ridiculous coach journey and bursting for a whizz cancels that right out. Shocking venue. Don't like spurs much either and arsenal's not much better, load of dives near the ground. Norwich is good and Liverpool/Everton . Southampton is pretty ordinary when it comes to boozers, but an out of town ground would be even worse.Instead of worrying about public transport links, boozers are the most important infrastructure. Mrs duck reckons our away days are a pub crawl with a match thrown in and she's spot on. Instead of worrying about transport linked the council should be encouraging more "leisure facilities" for match days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Sanchez Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 I tend to rate grounds on the basis of ale houses, particularly real ale ones. I'd agree with Reading being bottom. Despite a decent real ale boozer in town, the ridiculous coach journey and bursting for a whizz cancels that right out. Shocking venue. Don't like spurs much either and arsenal's not much better, load of dives near the ground. Norwich is good and Liverpool/Everton . Southampton is pretty ordinary when it comes to boozers, but an out of town ground would be even worse.Instead of worrying about public transport links, boozers are the most important infrastructure. Mrs duck reckons our away days are a pub crawl with a match thrown in and she's spot on. Instead of worrying about transport linked the council should be encouraging more "leisure facilities" for match days. The modern fan wants to be in and out clinical loke as most have to affiliation to the area so therefore Quintin wants to head back to the stables restaurant where Gil now works before heading back to Uni................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsdinho Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 Wouldn't be surprised if this was on NC's / The club's radar... http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10911315.Hopes_key_waterfront_site_will_kickstart_regeneration/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 Hold on.....The Ford factory is gone!!?? What about all the jobs!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 I would imagine the remediation costs involved for the Ford site would be quite substantial You'd need to pick it up and relocate it to the city centre for a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 3 January, 2014 Share Posted 3 January, 2014 Hold on.....The Ford factory is gone!!?? What about all the jobs!? Closed at the end of last year. Production gone to Turkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey-deacons-left-nut Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 Southern gas have just had a planning application to remove the two gas holders and all the other guff removed as well, wonder what's going on there then seeing as it's right next to the stadium... Only turned down basically because of a lack of information in the application (no how or why basically) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 1 June, 2014 Share Posted 1 June, 2014 They've been slowly decommissioning that site for years, wouldn't read anything into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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