New Everton Stadium

[AlexNyarkone]

Did he appreciate it though?

This isn't the bogs on Hampstead Heath

 

[marmor]

Something like that would look fantastic at waterfront

BBs arousal would look fantastic on the waterfront.....?

 

[n01efc]

when do people think we will hear anything? I recon within the next 3 months.

 

[Brennan]

On the contrary. The proximity of the city centre means there are 4 underground stations, a mainline station, coach station and virtually every bus route in the city to put to use, not to mention the Mersey ferry terminal. We also can draw on the biggest fleet of black Hackney cabs outside the capital. This is before even taking into account the thousands of car parking spaces the city centre boasts and the possibility of building more on the dock road. Let's remind ourselves, the city centre is equipped for a huge incoming and outgoing of workers 5 days a week. Football matches are played either at weekends or weekday evenings when commuting to work does not take place. Clarence Dock is a superb location for a stadium.

City centre workers tend to commute via public transport, not drive into the city centre and park. That is in contrast to match day traffic which involves considerable numbers of coaches and thousands of cars in and around the Walton area. Goodison is already easy to get to via public transport, being at Clarence Dock wouldn't dissuade many people from travelling to the game by road in cars and coaches. Strand Street and up to the Williams garage is already very busy on weekends. A 60,000 seater stadium that close to the centre of town would cause a lot of traffic issues.

Not saying it cannot be overcome, but Clarence Dock is not a perfect location. We have potentially a larger area to work with with BM/Nelson also, which will allow us more freedom to create not just a stadium but an Everton area on the docks.

 

[vagant59]

I didn't know that, but you would have to assume that all involved in the design and construction will be equipped with that knowledge, and be able to mitigate against it. God I hope so, you rely on professionals being competent and making themselves aware of potential issues such as this but as we saw with Martinez' pay-off amongst several other examples, that is not always so.

We will be able to arrange are games to coincide with when the tide is out. Problem solved

 

[Boss_Blue]

BBs arousal would look fantastic on the waterfront.....?

Dominate the skyline lad.

 

[Abraders]

when do people think we will hear anything? I recon within the next 3 months.

The new 48 hours

 

[Dr Baxter]

City centre workers tend to commute via public transport, not drive into the city centre and park. That is in contrast to match day traffic which involves considerable numbers of coaches and thousands of cars in and around the Walton area. Goodison is already easy to get to via public transport, being at Clarence Dock wouldn't dissuade many people from travelling to the game by road in cars and coaches. Strand Street and up to the Williams garage is already very busy on weekends. A 60,000 seater stadium that close to the centre of town would cause a lot of traffic issues.

Not saying it cannot be overcome, but Clarence Dock is not a perfect location. We have potentially a larger area to work with with BM/Nelson also, which will allow us more freedom to create not just a stadium but an Everton area on the docks.

But you miss the obvious. Lots of people don't use public transport to get to Goodison precisely because it is nowhere near as well served by public transport as the city centre is. If a stadium was built at the Clarence Dock, it would become de facto city centre almost overnight. Why are you concentrating on the issue of cars? Modern stadiums all around the world are based on the notion that people will use public transport to get to them. This is so even in the U S of A.

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

When I was a wee lad walking up priory seeing Goodison park lit up by the four pylons always made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and feeling butterflies in the pit of my stomach, when I eventually walk up the dock rd to our new stadium I want that same feeling don't care what shape it is I just want that feeling again it was magical. For me magical is the word, they have to deliver that magical stadium.

 

[terry nodder]

Brennan on the ropes here.

 

[vagant59]

I have a cock-ring which looks similar to that

 

[BlueLee]

Yes we do need a new ground badly and yes it really is time to move, but I'm really going to miss Goodison!

 

[Somerset Blue]

when do people think we will hear anything? I recon within the next 3 months.

Friday...

 

[Brennan]

But you miss the obvious. Lots of people don't use public transport to get to Goodison precisely because it is nowhere near as well served by public transport as the city centre is. If a stadium was built at the Clarence Dock, it would become de facto city centre almost overnight. Why are you concentrating on the issue of cars? Modern stadiums all around the world are based on the notion that people will use public transport to get to them. This is so even in the U S of A.

Many people get coaches to the game or drive because it is far cheaper than public transport. People from Wales or the Midlands aren't suddenly going to start taking trains when they drive and split the petrol.

Goodison is not difficult to get to on public transport at all. Stanley Park alone holds 1000 cars and is very busy every match day. Those cars are not going to disappear with a stadium on the docks.

You've also ignored the space issue. Clarence dock does not have the construction potential that BM combined with Nelson does.

I'm curious though, as to why you think Clarence dock would be 'de facto city centre' when BM is less than half a mile away ? If we were to build on Nelson also it's about a seven minute walk from one site to the other.

*six, according to Google

 

[ggooggooggoo]

Yes we do need a new ground badly and yes it really is time to move, but I'm really going to miss Goodison!

We'll call it all of then if that's the case....