More News On Ricoh Train Station (13 Viewers)

[guicey15]

A few weeks back i posted news of possible train station for Ricoh Arena. Well now they have drawn up some blueprints to show to the public over the next 10 days. Here's a small part of the article:

PLANS for a new train service stopping at the Ricoh Arena are to be exhibited around Coventry and Warwickshire.

The events are part of a public consultation on the much-delayed project, ahead of planning applications being submitted for stations at the Ricoh Arena and Bermuda Park, Nuneaton.

A bid for £9.7milllion of government funding for phase one of the NUCKLE scheme between Coventry and Nuneaton was submitted to transport secretary Philip Hammond this month.

He will decide the project’s fate at the end of the year.

Work, which would be completed by the end of 2013, also includes a new bay platform at Coventry station, to cope with extended six-carriage trains of at least two an hour.

The full article is here: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/ne...in-station-plans-to-go-public-92746-29500132/

 

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[AFCCOVENTRY]

Hopefully SISU will be on the first train OUT off the Ricoh

 

[Otis]

Don't be daft.

Start talking Helipads though and you may be on to something.

 

[Covstu]

sounds good...at last!!!!

 

[BenInTurin]

Fingers crossed for the start of 2012. I've said it before and I'll repeat it again now, the stadium shouldn't of been built without the agreed plans to build a train station at the same time.

 

[TheParsonsHose]

They should have used the Olympics as a vehicle to deliver this...opportunity missed IMO

 

[Otis]

Exactly. Agree with both of the last two posts.

What kind of nonsense it it to build a rail station the year AFTER the Olympics?

 

[Ashdown]

Its the £9.7 million figure that amazes me, I'd love to see a breakdown for that sort of costing??!!

 

[SkyBlueScottie]

Fingers crossed for the start of 2012. I've said it before and I'll repeat it again now, the stadium shouldn't of been built without the agreed plans to build a train station at the same time.

All very well and good, however we needed to bugger off out of Highfield Road as they wanted to build their houses.

Exactly. Agree with both of the last two posts.

What kind of nonsense it it to build a rail station the year AFTER the Olympics?

Baffled from Coventry....

 

[wingy]

Politics getting in the way of sense as usual,eight yars after stadium completion ,probably at double the original cost

 

[Waldorf]

Fingers crossed for the start of 2012. I've said it before and I'll repeat it again now, the stadium shouldn't of been built without the agreed plans to build a train station at the same time.

The station WAS in the original plans for the stadium, and if it had been up to the council it would have been built at the same time. However the Strategic Rail Authority wouldn't agree and the Gov't wouldn't stump up the money.

Its the £9.7 million figure that amazes me, I'd love to see a breakdown for that sort of costing??!!

The £9.7m is not the total cost, the Gov't is being asked for (I think) another £2m). HOWEVER: that is for the complete NUCKLE project, which builds no just the Ricoh station, but others at Kenilworth & Bermuda Park, plus the extra bay at Cov station.

 

[Disorganised1]

Interestingly the SRA fell under the aegis of Mock Tudor Prescott, and he was the man who finally killed teh station idea ~ he was also in charge of the sustainable transport group - who decided that we could only build the stadium if 70% of the planned audience arrived by public transport.

A fine example of joined up thinking there.

 

[cornoccfc]

Genius!

[h=1]Coventry City FC and Wasps RFC fans warned not to use new Ricoh Arena train station[/h]

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-city-fc-wasps-rfc-9920187

 

[ccfcmad1]

What a absolute joke!

 

[Sterling Archer]

£13m well spent.

It's like something out of 'on the hour':
"Council builds train station to , Council tells people who want to go to not to use it."

What a farce.


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[M&B Stand]

“In the future, when the line is electrified, all sorts of thing could be possible - but we’re not there yet"


All sorts of things? Like what, the station being open and trains actually stopping there?

You couldn't make it up.

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

Could somebody anybody tell me what this station is for oh forgot Tesco


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[Nick]

Are many going to use it to go and do a shop?

 

[MusicDating]

Genius!

Oh. My. God.



http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-city-fc-wasps-rfc-9920187

 

[fernandopartridge]

I said a few weeks ago there would be no increase in capacity. It's all thanks to the shambolic privatised rail industry, different private companies working in their own contradictory interests.

Another classic Tory (and New Labour) scam of transferring public money to private hands.

For once, it's not Coventry City Council's fault.

 

[skybluetony176]

£13m well spent.

It's like something out of 'on the hour':
"Council builds train station to , Council tells people who want to go to not to use it."

What a farce.


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Except it's the train operator who have said don't use it not CCC.

 

[skybluejelly]

On the plus side ,I bet it really pisses wasps off , at least the vast majority of skyblues fans are local,

 

[Leamington Pete]

THis is the stadium built surrounded by heavy parking restrictions to encourage people to use public transport.

 

[Deleted member 2477]

What a joke. I get this train twice a day to work and its that crowded in the morning there are up to 30 people standing. Midlands rail are a joke and to say their are no more trains is bollocks. I think its more a case of the idiots not being able to run it properly or check tickets than no trains being available

 

[Philosoraptor]

This story has everything but a Michael Byng comment.

 

[CJ_covblaze]

It was always going to continue be one train an hour but for it to keep the same single carriage is ridiculous. It's not like it's sprang up overnight. Plenty of time to prepare. London Midland, Network Rail and National Rail have a lot of questions to answer.

 

[Sick Boy]

What a waste of time and money!!

 

[lifeskyblue]

Not ccc or sisu fault...I must be on the wrong thread


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[skybluejelly]

didn't they always say they hoped 10% would use the train so potentially 3200 people@ 75 people an hour = 42 hrs ..or 16 hrs on gates of 12000 , lol

 

[Deleted member 2477]

Privatisation at its best. Zero spend = crap service but profit for the shareholders

 

[chiefdave]

Except it's the train operator who have said don't use it not CCC.

The lack of an increase from one train an hour was farcical to start off with but the ban on matchday use seems more to do with our old friends the Safety Advisory Group than the train operator, those sensible chaps that make away fans sit about 5 blocks away from home fans.

Concerns about overcrowding at the unmanned station have led the independent stadium Safety Advisory Group to order the one-hour closure after major events, including sports fixtures and concerts.

Have a guess who leads the Safety Advisory Group.

Its a farce, where else could you have a train station built next to a stadium and trains not be allowed to stop on matchday. There was even a crowd control queuing system install for use on matchday, what a waste of time and money.

 

[M&B Stand]

I said a few weeks ago there would be no increase in capacity. It's all thanks to the shambolic privatised rail industry, different private companies working in their own contradictory interests.

Another classic Tory (and New Labour) scam of transferring public money to private hands.

For once, it's not Coventry City Council's fault.

British Rail weren't the best tho were they!

 

[chiefdave]

Wonder if Lucas will be as keen to take credit now as she was when work started on the station.



From the Telegraph report at the time the work started:

Upgrades on the line will mean that two-carriage trains will run between Nuneaton and Coventry every 30 minutes.
On match or major event days trains will run between Coventry Station and Coventry Arena every 15 minutes.

 

[chiefdave]

From the original proposal, which was the basis for funding being awarded:

For events at Coventry Arena, a shuttle service between Coventry and Coventry Arena stations will be provided, with up to 6-car services operating at a half-hourly frequency to supplement the base half-hourly service (which could also be strengthened to operate with 3-car trains).

 

[hill83]

Choo Choo! All aboard http://youtu.be/GnrwM7vFn_U

What a shambles.