Speminalium8
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Maybe if we had a station at Ibrox there’d be fewer cars.
One cart families back then.And Mary Johnston stated match days are a “nightmare for local people”. I cannot understand how this planning application for the substantial reduction of car parking can go through until the findings from the public hearing for the ‘Ibrox Event Controls’ are concluded”, she added.
I do feel for Mary.
Clearly she bought her property prior to 1899 and could never have envisaged such problems...
Way more than people not in the industry think. Where I work, about 50k CAD per space. It would be an enormous, enormous waste of cash especially when it would sit dead for 13/14 days.I’ve often thought that would be a good idea. Anybody know what sort of cost we’d be looking at?
Wonder what team Mary supportsAnd Mary Johnston stated match days are a “nightmare for local people”. I cannot understand how this planning application for the substantial reduction of car parking can go through until the findings from the public hearing for the ‘Ibrox Event Controls’ are concluded”, she added.
I do feel for Mary.
Clearly she bought her property prior to 1899 and could never have envisaged such problems...
Genuine complains, yes.Never understood the antipathy of some fans towards people who live near the stadium.
Expecting residents to just endure limitations - and that if they don't like it, they should shut up shop and move - isn't really a conductive attitude to any of the parties involved. If a local resident is saying that match days are a "nightmare", it's the responsibility of the club to listen.
Rangers and Ibrox have been there for over 100 years.....Never understood the antipathy of some fans towards people who live near the stadium.
Expecting residents to just endure limitations - and that if they don't like it, they should shut up shop and move - isn't really a conductive attitude to any of the parties involved. If a local resident is saying that match days are a "nightmare", it's the responsibility of the club to listen.
The stadium has been holding events with over 50000 people for over a hundred years . Don’t move in the area for the last 5 and think you should be able to change it. Why are Rangers selling carpark area when we should be trying to increase.
They are being replaced elsewhere locally.A lot of people don’t seem to have read the article. They are objecting to a lot of parking spaces being removed from the area, which they are well within their rights to do.
But they are 85 spaces short at the moment.They are being replaced elsewhere locally.
How often would these spaces actually be "short?"But they are 85 spaces short at the moment.
Rangers and Ibrox have been there for over 100 years.....
Don't like football traffic etc? Don't choose to live 100 yards from a football stadium.
Genuine complains, yes.
Malicious complaints, no.
This Community Council has previous with us.
Look at the plans ya big diddy. You will find the planned 450 spaces there.John McKinstry wrote: “Where are 450 parking spaces to be found? Can they be located on site as per the original consent agreement? Not according to the information supplied with the proposal.”
Buy a property next to a football stadium and then complain about matchdays. What did she expect to happen?
I stayed in Bolton Drive in the early 2000s and it was marvellous. Great going to all the games and concerts....less so when it was Scotland games and there were drunk Teuchters pissing in your close at 10am on a sat when the game kicked off at 5pm.. Worse was the "live and loud" concerts with the kids with the fucking whistles..Exactly, anyone moving to the area has to be aware of what it is like on match days.
I stay close to Hampden and am sick of people complaining about what goes on when big crowds are there.
I'd hazard a guess that the majority of people on here don't live in their perfect, hassle free home. We bought ours as it was yards from our primary age kid's school, and 10 minutes walk from the secondary school. Almost 30 years down the line we regret the parking issues and constant traffic. We do of course have the option to sell and move as do most home owners.Rangers and Ibrox have been there for over 100 years.....
Don't like football traffic etc? Don't choose to live 100 yards from a football stadium.
I thought Rangers had bought that plot of land for a Car park too when they agreed too sell some of the land at the Albion car park.Who owns the waste ground a bit further down Broomloan Road? Think there used to be a pub on the corner called the Albion Way.
The footprint of that land must be about the same as the Albion car park. It’s been sitting empty for as long as I can remember, other than the derelict pub that was knocked down a few years ago.
It would make senseI thought Rangers had bought that plot of land for a Car park too when they agreed too sell some of the land at the Albion car park.
I live close enough to Dumbartons ground for it to cause me problems on a matchday and that's a 2000 capacity stadium!Never understood the antipathy of some fans towards people who live near the stadium.
Expecting residents to just endure limitations - and that if they don't like it, they should shut up shop and move - isn't really a conductive attitude to any of the parties involved. If a local resident is saying that match days are a "nightmare", it's the responsibility of the club to listen.
Bang on mate, invest in the future generations of Bears.Good. The club shouldn't be getting rid of part of the Albion. We should be expanding our footprint, not reducing it.
I love nothing better than using a more sustainable for of transport such as a train,Why there is no station on the mainline from Ayrshire is anybody’s guess.Wearing my green tinted spectacles, reducing car parking spaces may encourage fans to use more sustainable transport alternatives.
In my experience, if you are leaving at full time, then you get away quicker by avoiding The Albion Car Park. Yes, you will have further to walk to your car, so not ideal if you have limited mobility, but The Albion is a nightmare to get out of post-match.The club and the council should be working together to do more to increase, not decrease, the parking capacity around Ibrox. I often drive up and when I do, use the Albion car park. For Sunday games especially I need to jump in the car straight after the match for the very long drive home. If parking is further restricted and I have to park elsewhere that will add more time to the journey. Yes I know I’m only thinking about my convenience here, but I‘m sure I‘m not alone in having a long drive to/from Ibrox and I also do have some sympathy for the residents concerns on matchday parking.
In my experience, if you are leaving at full time, then you get away quicker by avoiding The Albion Car Park. Yes, you will have further to walk to your car, so not ideal if you have limited mobility, but The Albion is a nightmare to get out of post-match.
My cousin drives when I go and he always parks on Fairley Street at the Copland Road end of the stadium. He usually takes a chance and parks in front of one of the business entrances as they are not in use on match days generally. Post match, it’s along Brand Street and then round and onto PRW and up onto the M74 by the Kingston Bridge to head South. Easily found on Google Maps.Yes that's a very fair point. I value the convenience I suppose, easy to get parked on the way in and listen to the radio while crawling on the way out. It can take ridiculously long sometimes though. I'd like to get recommendations of where else to park for a quicker exit.
Nobody is asking the club to provide housing for anyone, the land folk are on about is already owned by the council and is zoned to have decent housing rebuilt on it.If edmiston house is successful you could develop more for the matchday experience. Could build a hotel. Rangers have obviously got money for selling the land and are presumably using it to reinvest elsewhere but I hope that is for long term projects that sustain income. We don’t have any obligation to provide housing for local people other than to make money from doing it.
I’m sure the locals have legitimate complaints but there must be solutions. We could provide private parking lockable bollards, or let locals use the car park free of charge during the week or reserve some places in the Albion for them on a matchday or a mix of proposals.