Link to official site article here.
Another really good off-pitch move by the ownership group.
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Finally! This has been well overdue and needed for a long time!
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I can’t work out whether it is to the first roundabout up to Lane End or the one by the Hour Glass.
My guess would be only up until the first one.
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It’s the road up until the roundabout for Lane End. The roundabout is a completely different road
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It’s about time we started annexing the town for our own use. Where’s next?
Greenland?
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Ice caps melting away like our chances of promotion this season
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The club have also added a Park & Ride from the Holiday Inn at Handy Cross (see Travel updates thread).
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There were 3 way traffic lights for some tiny pavement works at The Hourglass roundabouts today. Huge queues during the evening commute time. I really hope it’s gone by midday tomorrow or it’ll be awful.
Any updates on how this worked out yesterday?
It felt like there were teething problems. Saw the car in front complain to one of the many car park stewards about the tone it took to get out, but he seemed quick to just blame the people in the control room and absolve any blame on himself than try and give and helpful info out.
Seemed to be a bit more space for walking out without the usual parked cars down the slides and only one or two cars trying to get away from the side car parks, not sure if there was enough staff about to enforce anything or how it ended up. Did notice only one bus had made it in time with the driver having arguments with people about where the others were and one parked up by the hour glass for some reason.
Motorists are pretty high up the entitled league table. Some of the antics I’ve seen post match are incredible. Usually a sweaty faced bloke in an SUV gesticulating furiously and pushing their bumper into people.
Good luck trying to placate that crowd.
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To be fair, there are some pretty entitled people no matter the mode of transport be it motor vehicle or foot.
I have seen many a driver as you suggest but also many a pedestrian walk down the middle of the road stopping any traffic move when they could move to one side or the other and everyone proceed.
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It feels like we are putting more cars in the top car parking, but that may just be some have moved from the lower car park to accommodate the larger Chairboys Village.
That said when we left at 6 it was a clear run down Hillbottom Road.
On the subject of buffoon driving there was someone at about 2:30 trying to manoeuvre a car, looked like to turn around, right outside the entrance to the Vere Suite, in amongst the people and kids. My assumption was they had just dropped someone off.
How that was allowed to happen without any traffic marshalls escorting them or, in fact stopping them, I don’t know.
It was certainly more luck than judgement they didn’t hit anybody with their car.
The worst bit of driving I’ve ever seen was a lorry driver furiously trying to reverse into one of the industrial units surrounded by the departing crowd. Only people jumping up on his cab and banging the windows stopped his mad antics.
Hillbottom Road takes about 10-15 minutes to completely clear of pedestrians using the road (the pavements are either narrow, non-existent or in fairly bad nick as opposed to the lovely road surface).
Anyone in a car should just wait. And make use of that time to brush up on the Highway Code.
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There was a bit of last minute changing of plans as well for yesterday. Initially my dad (disabled) had been allocated parking space 96 rather than under the away stand.
He got an email a day or two before informing him of a change and move to another bay as 96 would have him parked ontop of a bench in the village.
As he is in his 80’s he doesn’t actually check emails that regularly so it was a bit of luck he saw the change as he was told the parking bag number when he called to book.
it wouldn’t surprise me if at least one person drove to there “allocated parking spot” that had subsequently been changed without them realising.
There also seemed to be quite a lot of equipment being stored in the normal disabled bays under the away stand which in itself seems a little inconsiderate for our disabled fans as they are the ones that sometimes cannot walk as far and so impacted the most by moving them a bit further away (and indeed in the case of wheelchair users need that wider bay)
The food vans near the village seemed to have been moved further into the car park further reducing car park capacity as it looks like there was a load of white metal structures. They looked like they might be structures for mobile lighting rigs for the new pitch (have seen similar actually on Readings pitch when I have gone to corporate events in there boxes)
Anyway, that’s a lot of words to say with the expanded village (which I thought was excellent yesterday) and things going on around the ground in terms of maintenance/upgrades meant quite a lot of parking had been reduced and, as you say, moved out to the top car park.
Carousel bus departures chaotic. WW3 (Thame) managed to depart from just outside the AP gates. WW0 (Handy Cross) was parked at the bottom of Hillbottom Road and WW1 (Station) from a bus stop in Lane End Road. No sign of WW2 or WW4. The club & Carousel need to get together and agree where these buses are going to depart from and how to inform punters about any last minute hitches. It aint rocket science.
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