New Stadium Plans - The Triangle - Planning

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[Yellowmania]

I personally think the road closures are not a major inconvenience at all. For the detour and the short times involved it’s far from the end of the world for residents.
Perhaps my view is softened, and I’m able to put a different perspective on it, by living in an area with constant road closures from HS2/EWR. Currently of 4 roads out of the village 2 are currently closed. I have to go several miles on a detour pretty often so I just get used to it as it’s a 24 hour, several days a week closure happening most weeks.
As I say I’ve gotten use to every day detours and can’t see a big problem for residents doing so once every fortnight for a couple of hours.

 

[SteMerritt]

Relax!

The Championship Play-Off Final is a game purported to be worth £250m to the winner. In a couple of years it'll be paid off before the stadium is even finished.

We'll be fine.

Good point. Let's build 3 underpasses.

 

[Older Shotts]

Good point. Let's build 3 underpasses.

Don't be so silly.. lets build a great big f off slide from the train station to the stadium.. a 4 or 6 laner slide, so fans can race each other down it.

like this one:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1560750215946199041

 

[SteMerritt]

Don't be so silly.. lets build a great big f off slide from the train station to the stadium.. a 4 or 6 laner slide, so fans can race each other down it.

Now you are talking. Two of these, one in each direction between the station and the ground...

 

[LowerSouth]

I personally think the road closures are not a major inconvenience at all. For the detour and the short times involved it’s far from the end of the world for residents.
Perhaps my view is softened by living in an area with constant road closures from HS2/EWR. Currently of 4 roads out of the village 2 are currently closed. I have to go several miles on a detour pretty often so I just get used to it and it’s a 24 hour, several days a week closure most weeks.
As I say I’ve gotten use to every day detours and can’t see a problem for residents doing every fortnight for a couple of hours.
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We fans, understandingly have tunnel/ one way vision .
The reality of a diversion on fixture days may not be a big deal to us, but it’s the clubs duty to come up with a solution which is acceptable to the majority of residents.
They’ve been bold in highlighting that this may
( will probably happen).
If I lived in Kidlington. I would naturally be concerned .
Just another hurdle- and the club and the scheme agents know this .

 

[Marked Ox]

Don't be so silly.. lets build a great big f off slide from the train station to the stadium.. a 4 or 6 laner slide, so fans can race each other down it.

like this one:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1560750215946199041

That's the away fans sorted.

 

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[Marked Ox]

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Didn't realise the Oxford Canal was that big.

 

[OUFCwaffle]

A small point on road closure (that's singular, not plural, as it is one road that may close, in fact it's part of one road) but in my opinion an important one.

The narrative seems to have become "road closures" but it is only one. The antis are using this description all of the time, and it implies multiple roads being closed. I think we, and the club, should use the term "temporary road closure" instead. It is far closer to the reality and doesn't sound so alarmist.

Furthermore, I cannot for the life of me understand why that section of the Oxford Road would need to be closed for TWO WHOLE HOURS after each game. 20/30 minutes should be ample. If you go past any football stadium an hour after the game has finished it's like a ghost town, so two hours seems incredibly excessive. Again, I feel the club need to get hold of this narrative now, before it gets out of hand.

There are some great things regarding the new stadium, but I do think the club/its advisors hasn't presented some of these issues as well as they could have in order to mitigate the obvious negativity that was going to come from certain quarters.

'temporary traffic restrictions' would be a better term

 

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[Foley]

Sure, on that basis it is.

Now we all know, other than men’s first team matches, that those things won’t have enough footfall to trouble the traffic marshals, but the local people don’t know that.

Next, add in the scaremongering about concerts and other major events.

You may think it’s easy to argue against, but the club have given those most against it a lovely piece of proof of the real intentions for The Triangle.

The club have made clear I believe that there won't be any concerts.
To a certain extent, a few of those against the stadium make things up and will argue that there could be concerts regardless of what is said!

 

[LeftSideLarry]

The club have made clear I believe that there won't be any concerts.
To a certain extent, a few of those against the stadium make things up and will argue that there could be concerts regardless of what is said!

If only they’d made clear the actual frequency of major events.

 

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[Sarge]

With the closure of Sandy Lane Yarton imminet-ish shouldnt KPC, CDC and OCC highways get together ( maybe with other relevant Parish councils too) to pressurise railtrack to reverse the decision to close Sandy Lane ? It would provide an additional route out of and into Kidlington (from the A44) thus at least part negating part of Oxford Road being closed and the impact on Kidlington residents

It actually goes past Chester V's house ( Sandy Lane Yarton)so he should declare a vested interest should there be a move to reverse the decision to close Sandy Lane Yarnton by the the relevant parish councils, as well as district and county council.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

Now you are talking. Two of these, one in each direction between the station and the ground...

BBC News - Slides plan for Newcastle's St James' Park

Slides plan for Newcastle's St James' Park

Football fans exiting Newcastle's St James' Park could be speeded on their way if plans to install slides outside the ground are approved.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Yellow Rose]

Who owns the land at the top ( that looks like a storage area for cricket pitches) if we wanted to do what someone else suggested and go under first then up and over the bridge using the southbound bus lane?

There is no room for the platform to be extended under the bridge, too narrow as you move away from the existing platform

 

[Oxonion]

The project is set to cost £100m, which is said to be 30% more than Brentford’s similar sized stadium using the same architects

Apologies if this has already been mentioned (too many posts to read every one!). Went to the exhibition last night & briefly spoke to the architect. Apparently, the cost of the stadium is broadly similar to that of Brentford's. However, ours would have a hotel attached to it & that adds another £20-25m to the cost.

 

[Berliner]

If not that, a potential Plan B for access from Parkway carpark ... ?

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Fun fact, Edward I (Longshanks, as played by Patrick McGoohan in Braveheart) built the largest trebuchet ever made (War Wolf), only for the Scots to surrender before it was built. At which he promptly refused the truce, sent the party back and bombed the sh*t out of the castle they were taking refuge in.