Villa Park Redevelopment

[Drummond]

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It can be done... Easy solution for access to Villa Park from the city centre...

[AV82EC]

What an utter waste of money. Low capacity, slow and probably about 10% as effective as either buses or trams. The only surprise is we haven’t done it here as that’s the usual standard of public transport provision.

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Zip wires would work better.

[VILLA MOLE]

Monorail ,  Monorail Mono !!!

[VILLA MOLE]

Specifically on light, the consultation deals with it more from the light pollution sense, but reaffirms they remain a consideration. Legally the position would be unchanged as those houses are >20 years old. The best option, if a new design would block that light, remains to purchase the 7 or 8 that it impacts. Or negotiate a settlement. In the context of a new build at £100m+ then a few extra million is not problematic.

If we did want to do something with Witton Lane would it only be that few houses ? 

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Did anybody ever go on the monorail at Merry Hill? I have a really vague and distant childhood memory of it.

[DB]

Did anybody ever go on the monorail at Merry Hill? I have a really vague and distant childhood memory of it.

I did a few times, didn’t see Leonard Nimoy though.

A metro to VP would be great but the cost of building it in this country per mile is ridiculous. I can’t see anymore metro on same scale being built in the Brum/ Black Country area after the eastside extension and the Dudley route. Leeds looks to have their metro indefinitely cancelled.
Cov is using a cheaper / lighter version which may be a goer for VP.

[AV82EC]

Did anybody ever go on the monorail at Merry Hill? I have a really vague and distant childhood memory of it.

I did a few times, didn’t see Leonard Nimoy though.

A metro to VP would be great but the cost of building it in this country per mile is ridiculous. I can’t see anymore metro on same scale being built in the Brum/ Black Country area after the eastside extension and the Dudley route. Leeds looks to have their metro indefinitely cancelled.
Cov is using a cheaper / lighter version which may be a goer for VP.

The issue with the Coventry VLR is the capacity of the vehicles. In such a dense urban environment my biggest concern is it just isn’t going to have the capacity that say the West Mids Metro already has. It’s cheap to build but at what cost.

Anyway back on topic, VP and the Alexander Stadium absolutely need a metro extension. I’ve said it before as well that I’m really underwhelmed with what they’re doing to Witton Station as well.

[algy]

Did anybody ever go on the monorail at Merry Hill? I have a really vague and distant childhood memory of it.

When I was younger we had family days out to have a go on the maglev at Birmingham International.

Also visited Lugano in Switzerland a couple of years back - they have a funicular railway rail network.

Anyway, these are all just pie in the sky ideas. Clearly what we need, as was championed by our dearly departed sickbeggar, is a boat service along the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal and a direct cable car from new street to Villa Park. That they don’t do this just shows up TfWM for the fools they are

[algy]

Did anybody ever go on the monorail at Merry Hill? I have a really vague and distant childhood memory of it.

I did a few times, didn’t see Leonard Nimoy though.

A metro to VP would be great but the cost of building it in this country per mile is ridiculous. I can’t see anymore metro on same scale being built in the Brum/ Black Country area after the eastside extension and the Dudley route. Leeds looks to have their metro indefinitely cancelled.
Cov is using a cheaper / lighter version which may be a goer for VP.

The issue with the Coventry VLR is the capacity of the vehicles. In such a dense urban environment my biggest concern is it just isn’t going to have the capacity that say the West Mids Metro already has. It’s cheap to build but at what cost.

Anyway back on topic, VP and the Alexander Stadium absolutely need a metro extension. I’ve said it before as well that I’m really underwhelmed with what they’re doing to Witton Station as well.

Absolutely. How are we going to compete with the Real Madrids, Bayern Munichs, and Juventuses of this world without a tram stop? Even the most shortsighted of clubs would see you need a tram stop if you’re to compete on a global scale.

[Chico Hamilton III]

What an utter waste of money. Low capacity, slow and probably about 10% as effective as either buses or trams. The only surprise is we haven’t done it here as that’s the usual standard of public transport provision.

We have the Emirates cable car, linking Greenwich to Victoria Dock, I was walking underneath it yesterday and every carriage looked completely empty. Boris Johnson’s £60m vanity project.

[Pat Mustard]

Specifically on light, the consultation deals with it more from the light pollution sense, but reaffirms they remain a consideration. Legally the position would be unchanged as those houses are >20 years old. The best option, if a new design would block that light, remains to purchase the 7 or 8 that it impacts. Or negotiate a settlement. In the context of a new build at £100m+ then a few extra million is not problematic.

If we did want to do something with Witton Lane would it only be that few houses ?

It's not many directly behind the current stand, but if we wanted to build something on a scale to get us to 60k+ (which really would be the only reason to do it), then I suspect we would need the whole of Holte Road and McGregor Close at the very least.  The only way I can see it happening is if they have a masterplan for the whole area which includes a lot of replacement house building and a proper upgrade of Witton Station. 

[Brazilian Villain]

What an utter waste of money. Low capacity, slow and probably about 10% as effective as either buses or trams. The only surprise is we haven’t done it here as that’s the usual standard of public transport provision.

We have the Emirates cable car, linking Greenwich to Victoria Dock, I was walking underneath it yesterday and every carriage looked completely empty. Boris Johnson’s £60m vanity project.

No real surprise that it's quiet.

[algy]

Word on the street is that the warehouse will be open on Sunday

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How mental an idea would be a water taxi in Brum? All these canals knocking about and that. Got to be useful for something other than narrow boat holidays and somewhere damp to store your shopping trolly.