Villa Park Redevelopment

[Chap]

Are they boring dad rock or shouty-shouty rock? Make your mind's up 🙂

Boring dad shouty rock.

There’s nothing wrong with Boring dad shouty rock, or Grandad shouty rock these days.🤣

[edgysatsuma89]

Are they boring dad rock or shouty-shouty rock? Make your mind's up 🙂

Boring dad shouty rock.

I was waiting for you SE!

[Ads]

I'm going to try and get tickets on Friday for them. Don't mind them at all.

[ADVILLAFAN]

The Foo Fighters. The band Nirvana could have been!

[OCD]

I can't imagine the Foo Fighters coming up with Smells Like Teen Spirit or Come As You Are.

[Brazilian Villain]

Clyde FC. The football club Aston Villa could have been.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Wings. The band The Beatles could have been!

[Dogtanian]

The Foo Fighters. The band Nirvana could have been!

Someone should have told him they were great.

[Lastfootstamper]

I can't imagine the Foo Fighters coming up with Smells Like Teen Spirit or Come As You Are.

Killing Joke could give it a go.

[VILLA MOLE]

None of our main threads are discussing their main theme ,  i hope this changes ( not that this isn’t all very interesting)

[john2710]

I've rarely used public transport to get to & from Villa Park since the mid 1980's. On the odd occasions I have, I've been stuck outside Aston station for an hour trying to get home. Arriving home at least an hour later than if I'd gone by car. With 3 of us it's also significantly more expensive than driving.

In recent years I've ended up parking further & further away from the ground, whilst at the same time having to arrive earlier.

I was at the San Siro last season for a Champions League game & it's impressive how they can disperse 80k+ people without hassle. There are dozens of food & drink areas around the perimeter of the stadium & they're open after the game. We delayed leaving & had another drink. There's multiple stations in a short area around the ground. Trains turn up every 2-3 minutes. There's 500 people on the platform waiting to get on the train, 500 waiting in a holding area & thousands outside waiting to be let through 500 at a time. It's not difficult to find a solution if there's the will & investment.

But I'm not expecting to see anything of any value coming from the council nor the train companies.

[pauliewalnuts]

I've rarely used public transport to get to & from Villa Park since the mid 1980's. On the odd occasions I have, I've been stuck outside Aston station for an hour trying to get home. Arriving home at least an hour later than if I'd gone by car. With 3 of us it's also significantly more expensive than driving.

In recent years I've ended up parking further & further away from the ground, whilst at the same time having to arrive earlier.

I was at the San Siro last season for a Champions League game & it's impressive how they can disperse 80k+ people without hassle. There are dozens of food & drink areas around the perimeter of the stadium & they're open after the game. We delayed leaving & had another drink. There's multiple stations in a short area around the ground. Trains turn up every 2-3 minutes. There's 500 people on the platform waiting to get on the train, 500 waiting in a holding area & thousands outside waiting to be let through 500 at a time. It's not difficult to find a solution if there's the will & investment.

But I'm not expecting to see anything of any value coming from the council nor the train companies.

In their case it is not about trains at all. Milan has a large underground system, that's a massive, massive difference. Mass transit systems like that can move thousands of people in a few minutes.

[SoccerHQ]

Have the club ever surveyed how people get to and from games? Would be useful to know as a starting point. Much as people want more trains laid on I would think that's one of the hardest to do as train economics are in decline since COVID, less people using them.

Perhaps the club will have to sort this out running a match day fleet of buses for the first couple of miles away from VP. 50 buses running back and forth for the first couple of miles away from the ground to other transport hubs and parking could help as could making the ground a better place to stay for a while afterwards.

Didn't they have park and ride from the Fort during the Commonwealth games?

I'm always surprised they don't run a shuttle service from Star City as I get a lift there when we play midweek and always plenty walking back so demand would be there....unless we priced it at the levels we are from Birmingham city centre.

[SoccerHQ]

If your a regular user of the cross city line & have seen the state of Kings Norton & Northfield Stations  then you know BCC & the Train companies don't like to spend any cash on the railways. Really can't see either rushing to upgrade Witton.

Isn't Kings Norton getting upgraded with the Kings Heath, Moseley and Hazelwell stations getting opened at some point in next few years?

Sums up the transport thinking though originally those trains were suppose to commence from Moor Street but chords cost too much so they'll be another addition to New Street.

What I actually think would be quite useful would be a matchday shuttle from the Airport to say Walsall and back. They could run that through the spur line that goes from Stechford up to Aston and meets the Cross City line. It's only used for freight and late night diversions so surely could be some paths for two an hour and it would help getting fans back south of the Midlands rather than clogging up existing services into New Street.

Small Heath have trains calling at Bordesley on Matchdays so not like there can't be alterations and they probably only have about 5 fans getting off at that station.

[PeterWithe]

There are loads of solutions to the train problems, but someone in power has to have the will to see them through. And that’s what’s been lacking for years now. Maybe an independent politician standing on an ‘improve transport’ ticket in local elections?