New Stadium Details And Discussions

[Lilbaz]

Having recently abseiled the ArcelorMittal Orbit, which is double the height, this seems like a piece of piss...
Oh, and if it is a windy day they simply won't open it to the public.

Lift broke?

 

[Lighty64]

I've noticed there are no trains listed from Northumberland on Tuesday night. I hope the station isn't being worked on. It's going to be a nightmare with so many people getting home. I've emailed Greater Anglia ([email protected]) asking to add it to their stops otherwise I have to walk all the way down to Tottenham Hale or go from WHL to Cheshunt. Anyone know what's quicker, the long wait at WHL or walking down to Tottenham Hale?

Maybe if others email too they might use Northumberland.

have sent you a PM

 

[14/04/91]

I've noticed there are no trains listed from Northumberland on Tuesday night. I hope the station isn't being worked on. It's going to be a nightmare with so many people getting home. I've emailed Greater Anglia ([email protected]) asking to add it to their stops otherwise I have to walk all the way down to Tottenham Hale or go from WHL to Cheshunt. Anyone know what's quicker, the long wait at WHL or walking down to Tottenham Hale?

Maybe if others email too they might use Northumberland.

They don’t tend to update the app etc until the day of the game so should be showing now. Panicked me when I looked first game of the season!

 

[Lilbaz]

have sent you a PM

Boris or the pig fucker?

 

[Lighty64]

Boris or the pig fucker?

No was offering transport to save hassle with train

 

[mil1lion]

Trains were fine, I was just worrying. Although there was a ticket inspector so lucky I actually bought a ticket.

 

[Spurslove]

I assume all the buses will be prevented from using the High Road until two hours after the final whistle, as usual. Nobody will ever convince me this is a decision made with any common sense. Surely, the main objective is to get the crowds away from the ground as quickly, as efficiently and as safely as is possible, so by stopping all the buses between Northumberland Park and Seven Sisters, you're denying all those people who need to get to Seven Sisters or Bruce Grove stations the chance to leave the area as quickly as they might need to, especially in the pissing rain, it's no fun to have to walk all that way, jostling with the crowds, getting soaking wet, not to mention all those people who can't walk that far because of any age related or physical disabaility they may have. Sorry, but stopping the buses at the exact time and place people need them most is utter bollocks.

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[spursfan77]

Got absolutely soaked in the south stand yesterday. Not good for a new stadium.

 

[therhinospeaks]

if we're finishing 5 or 6 or below our crowds will average 40-45K, if current prices are maintained

Bring it on!!!!

 

[therhinospeaks]

Don’t agree at all. There’s very little difference between Arsenal match going support and ours. If anything I’d say ours is better. It totally depends on the mood, if you end up with a Wenger type situation then yeah they’d be a drop off. But you can be 5/6 th with an air of optimism like Chelsea and Arsenal now and easily sell out. Shame we didn’t get to see a carabo game against lowly opposition, attendance would have been very interesting.

Far more day trippers filling seats at A

Dont we have like 42k season ticket holders. This comment means no members would buy a ticket at all which I dont think would be the case

Averaging 8k going on exchange each game. We don't have the fanbase to keep filling that.

 

[therhinospeaks]

Got absolutely soaked in the south stand yesterday. Not good for a new stadium.

hahahha love it

 

[worcestersauce]

I assume all the buses will be prevented from using the High Road until two hours after the final whistle, as usual. Nobody will ever convince me this is a decision made with any common sense. Surely, the main objective is to get the crowds away from the ground as quickly, as efficiently and as safely as is possible, so by stopping all the buses between Northumberland Park and Seven Sisters, you're denying all those people who need to get to Seven Sisters or Bruce Grove stations the chance to leave the area as quickly as they might need to, especially in the pissing rain, it's no fun to have to walk all that way, jostling with the crowds, getting soaking wet, not to mention all those people who can't walk that far because of any age related or physical disabaility they may have. Sorry, but stopping the buses at the exact time and place people need them most is utter bollocks.

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Do they stop the buses running or do they just divert them? I thought the diversion was down Landsdowne road and back up Northumberland Park but either way you only need a short walk up or down the High road to pick up a bus I think.

 

[therhinospeaks]

I assume all the buses will be prevented from using the High Road until two hours after the final whistle, as usual. Nobody will ever convince me this is a decision made with any common sense. Surely, the main objective is to get the crowds away from the ground as quickly, as efficiently and as safely as is possible, so by stopping all the buses between Northumberland Park and Seven Sisters, you're denying all those people who need to get to Seven Sisters or Bruce Grove stations the chance to leave the area as quickly as they might need to, especially in the pissing rain, it's no fun to have to walk all that way, jostling with the crowds, getting soaking wet, not to mention all those people who can't walk that far because of any age related or physical disabaility they may have. Sorry, but stopping the buses at the exact time and place people need them most is utter bollocks.

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The road is 'only' closed until Lordship Lane.

 

[worcestersauce]

Got absolutely soaked in the south stand yesterday. Not good for a new stadium.

Me too so now it's not enough to know it's raining I now have to check for north winds. I bet they didn't cover that in their computer modelling.

 

[Spurslove]

Do they stop the buses running or do they just divert them? I thought the diversion was down Landsdowne road and back up Northumberland Park but either way you only need a short walk up or down the High road to pick up a bus I think.

Yes, they are diverting them, but that's no help whatsoever if you're leaving the ground and need to get to one of the main getaway stations like Northumberland Park, Bruce Grove or Seven Sisters and it's pissing down with rain. Both stations which you describe as being 'only a short walk' are endurance tests for those who may not be anywhere near as fit as yourself, and what is merely a ten minute walk for you is more like a fifteen or twenty minute walk for some others (especially with the kind of adverse weather conditions we often have to put up with in London).

Admittedly, a short walk up to Lansdowne Road from the stadium may not be too difficult if you're leaving the stadium from the West or South stand, but there are plenty of people who's seats are in either the north or east stands who still face a trek of around ten minutes or more up to Northumberland Park, which is all well and good in fine weather, but not if you find walking too far a problem and, as I say, the weather is horrible and you're fighting with huge crowds of people.

So, I have to ask, what exactly is the problem with allowing the various bus routes to simply go up and down the length of the High Road as they do usually, after a match?

Sorry for the rant, but it's just something which bugs me.

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[therhinospeaks]

Yes, they are diverting them, but that's no help whatsoever if you're leaving the ground and need to get to one of the main getaway stations like Northumberland Park, Bruce Grove or Seven Sisters and it's pissing down with rain. Both stations which you describe as being 'only a short walk' are endurance tests for those who may not be anywhere near as fit as yourself, and what is merely a ten minute walk for you is more like a fifteen or twenty minute walk for some others (especially with the kind of adverse weather conditions we often have to put up with in London).

Admittedly, a short walk up to Lansdowne Road from the stadium may not be too difficult if you're leaving the stadium from the West or South stand, but there are plenty of people who's seats are in either the north or east stands who still face a trek of around ten minutes or more up to Northumberland Park, which is all well and good in fine weather, but not if you find walking too far a problem and, as I say, the weather is horrible and you're fighting with huge crowds of people.

So, I have to ask, what exactly is the problem with allowing the various bus routes to simply go up and down the length of the High Road as they do usually, after a match?

Sorry for the rant, but it's just something which bugs me.

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errrr because there simply isn't the space on the pavement to facilitate thousands of people descending on mass.

 

[RichieS]

Me too so now it's not enough to know it's raining I now have to check for north winds. I bet they didn't cover that in their computer modelling.

I bet they did, but in the grand scheme of things the pitch getting enough natural light is more important. Or was it coming through the roof?

 

[worcestersauce]

I bet they did, but in the grand scheme of things the pitch getting enough natural light is more important. Or was it coming through the roof?

I'm not complaining but no it wasn't coming through the roof, it wasn't isolated to certain areas like a leak it was pooring down horizontally on the entire south stand up to the level where you come out from the level two concourse, the area for the wheelchair users.

 

[Spurslove]

errrr because there simply isn't the space on the pavement to facilitate thousands of people descending on mass.

You could say that's crap planning then. The pavements are more than adequate (or at least they would be) if the buses were allowed to go up and down the High Road as per usual, ferrying the crowds away far more speedily, and thinking about it, what's to stop TFL creating a bus lane in both directions between Lansdowne Road and Edmonton, clearing the way for buses, or even a re-introduction of the old 'Football Special' bus service which used to run between WHL and Manor House?

And another thing...when I attended the recent Spurs v Palace match, I was on a bus approaching the stadium from Finsbury Park, believing stupidly that I just could hop off the bus and meet my friends outside the ground as usual, but ALL the traffic was stopped at Lansdowne Road, so everyone had to get off the bus and walk the three or four hundred yards up to the stadium. I asked a few (very unhappy) people WTF was going on but nobody knew anything. Once again, somebody sodding about with the transportation service for absolutely no reason. The fans, as usual, come last.

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[coys200]

I'm not complaining but no it wasn't coming through the roof, it wasn't isolated to certain areas like a leak it was pooring down horizontally on the entire south stand up to the level where you come out from the level two concourse, the area for the wheelchair users.

Roof coverage is standard at every new stadium. If there’s any sort of wind there’s not a whole lot you can do about it.