Sandhills station

[bigjonny]

Got the train into line street at 1pm with the intention of getting the shuttle bus to the ground.

At ten past one the queues were massive and there was no bus in sight. I looked at it and thought by the time they get everyone on the buses and set off they’ll be very little time to make kick off.

That’s not how a shuttle service works so I decided to walk down. From lime street it took about half an hour.

After the game I tried to get the train but by the time I got to Sandhills it was at capacity and their queue was outside the station so I just walked up near the pits and got the bus.

Utter farce.

They’ve had five years to prepare for this. During that time they could have implemented bus routes going to and from places like bootle and Crosby, and put together an express train service to help with crowding at Sandhills.

Apparently they were checking tickets at sandhills before the game. They’ve already been told not to do this at Kirkdale because of how dangerous it is yet decided to do it today after all the chaos at the first event.

I’m worried about how they manage this with 52k fans after a premier league game. The whole thing is very under prepared.

When my bus was stuck at the Great Howard street junction I saw 3 Lime street buses travelling down Leeds street to join the fun, that was about 13.20

 

[Eggs]

….not sure when the next Mayoral Election is but I doubt the angst of Evertonians will be enough to shift Rotherham.

I urge those who feel strongly or want to share their transport experience to drop him an e-mail. It only takes a minute.

 

[bluelife]

Build a small boat terminal and get routes going from every dock in town/the wirral - no brainer

 

[Shevin Keedy]

….not sure when the next Mayoral Election is but I doubt the angst of Evertonians will be enough to shift Rotherham.

I urge those who feel strongly or want to share their transport experience to drop him an e-mail. It only takes a minute.

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Good advice this, but do we know if it will activate any sort of security filters if perhaps someone wanted to send something like a photo of a baboon with its whacker hanging out?

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Build a small boat terminal and get routes going from every dock in town/the wirral - no brainer

The Gammons won't be happy if we build a terminal for small boats.

 

[toffeeblue9]

Thing is, I don't think anything short of a rebuilding of the station is going to address the issues. The queues after the game were stretching down the road, and that's at just under half capacity, with plenty of people having left early to beat the rush. It doesn't bode well.

Add to that the fact you can't drive there and now we've got capacity issues on the most direct walking route back to the city centre.

I'd love to think that these are all just teething issues, but to address them properly will cost a fortune in infrastructure costs that it's hard to imagine anyone being keen to spend

 

[EGWToffee]

Basically unless you’re walking from a mile outside it’s an absolute nightmare to get to. Cars were gridlocked.

Needs sorting asap but how?

 

[jinkyali]

Absolutely gutted that this is the case.

 

[paultheblue]

They need to drop the no parking zone apart from half a mile either side of BMD on the dock road.
Where are the coaches going to park as i haven't seen any mention of them?

 

[gazzaa2]

5 years to prepare and it’s come down to walking, farcical!

Dock Road is narrow and youve got the bottleneck at the bridge. Great Howard pavements are narrow on a dual carriage way road. The hordes from Sandhills still have to walk a fair bit to and from the station.

There's only so much capacity for people walking. Especially after the game when the majority of a 52k crowd leave at the same time onto the same road

 

[davek]

They need to drop the no parking zone apart from half a mile either side of BMD on the dock road.
Where are the coaches going to park as i haven't seen any mention of them?

It's going to come down to this in the end. A substantial part of this problem goes away if they rethink in a major way parking down there near the stadium.

That's the only hand they have to play now as far as I'm concerned, because it'll take years to sort out the transportation disaster the local state have handed Everton.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Thing is, I don't think anything short of a rebuilding of the station is going to address the issues. The queues after the game were stretching down the road, and that's at just under half capacity, with plenty of people having left early to beat the rush. It doesn't bode well.

Add to that the fact you can't drive there and now we've got capacity issues on the most direct walking route back to the city centre.

I'd love to think that these are all just teething issues, but to address them properly will cost a fortune in infrastructure costs that it's hard to imagine anyone being keen to spend

It'd have to be one of the biggest stations in the country to handle say 40k people.

ha ha ha.

Type that like I just did. "handle 40,000 people". For 19 home league matches per calendar year. Throw 3k filthy leeds fans into the mix, then what?

Someone mentioned yesterday european competition support being marched back to lime street by plod after matches at anfield, if aways or dare I suggest euro aways support are marching back into town, won't they be side by side with thousands of our fans?

RMS Titanic, capacity ~2500 passengers. We'd need 16 Titanics to ship just 40k supporters.

3 new stations wouldn't cover the requirement, and 3 new stations would need policing, and where would the queues go?

The irony, there's an iceberg sized catastrophe heading straight for Liverpool dockside.

 

[NathDogg]

They were telling people to not use the train pre-match

Wish I would have seen that before being sat on the strand on the 929 for half an hour going nowhere. Shambles.

At least I am able to walk if in decide to, no provision at all for blues who cannot get to the ground under there own steam.

Absolute shambles from the Kirkby Kim Jong Un and his cronies. He should be sacked, and if he had anything about him he would resign.

 

[davek]

In answer to Commander Steve's pollyanna post on twitter last night, this feller has skewered him in one fell swoop.



I've been arguing that since the 1st test event.

 

[Sweeneytoad]

In answer to Commander Steve's pollyanna post on twitter last night, this feller has skewered him in one fell swoop.



I've been arguing that since the 1st test event.

Reading all the comments under that tweet is good to see that we aren't just an echo chamber on here.

The massive issue we now have is a Mayor who thinks it all went well, It hasn't and he's burying his head in the sand. He can only kick the can down the road for so long, there's a massive storm (much bigger than the current one) coming.