Ricoh Arena station update (6 Viewers)

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Quite good value that as I live close to the station at Bermuda and it costs me £1 exactly for the return journey in my car and have free parking near the ground so I will be busting my arse to get on a train that costs me about £17.

 

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[Nick]

What I don't get is the keys being handed over. I can't see any locks on it?

 

[chiefdave]

What I don't get is the keys being handed over. I can't see any locks on it?

Council probably forgot to order the locks.

 

[wingy]

Omg.... more embarrassment on the local tv news tonight no doubt

 

[skybluejelly]

This is the same council telling everyone it is in there best interests to become part of greater Birmingham ... Inspires confidence doesn't it

 

[SimonGilbert]

£17? Is that from Nuneaton or Cov to the Ricoh and back?

Ricoh and back.

 

[shmmeee]

Part of me wanted to like this...

Proper socialist economic policy at the BNP btw, state intervention, high taxes, and import tariffs!

I know but we don't have a fascist party for the joke to work and the only people hurt in the incorrect stereotype are racists so I'll let myself off.

 

[shmmeee]

This is the same council telling everyone it is in there best interests to become part of greater Birmingham ... Inspires confidence doesn't it

Well on the one hand, if you think CCC are incompetent you should welcome them ceding power to a higher authority.

 

[Nick]

Ricoh and back.

I can't see many wanting to do their shopping.

How much is it currently from Nuneaton to Cov on that line?

 

[stupot07]

Where the info come from, I can't see an article on the CT.

Edit: found it. What an absolute farce and waste of tax payers money.

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[chiefdave]

Ricoh and back.

How much is a tax from Cov station to the Ricoh and back? If there's a couple of you going that must work out cheaper than getting the train!

 

[Nick]

How much is a tax from Cov station to the Ricoh and back? If there's a couple of you going that must work out cheaper than getting the train!

Probably about a tenner I think.

 

[stupot07]

Will be interesting to hear Wasps response to this.


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[Sumo the Micky Quinn]

Ok this £17 return form Coventry station to Ricoh is bullshit, However £17 Nuneaton to Ricoh return could be plausible.

Ricoh is just inside the boundary of Coventry City Council, so bus & train fares are under the control of Network West Midlands, (formally Centro or W.M.P.T.E.).
So you can use your Bus & Train Daytripper/rider/saver (whatever name it happens to be today).

This cost £8.10 for unlimited travel on buses, trams & trains in the whole of the West Midlands, £6.40 after 09:30.
£8:90 to/from the following stations, Stratford-upon-Avon, Kidderminster, Leamington Spa, Lichfield and Warwick after 0930, NOT NUNEATON or BEDWORTH.

The train operator is just trying to dig in its heals to claim money from Coventry, Nuneaton or/& Warwickshire Councils to pay for this.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

I can't see many wanting to do their shopping.

How much is it currently from Nuneaton to Cov on that line?

i think when we went on it the price was about £5 each return

 

[Captain Dart]

Coventry - New St return was something like £5 last time I went....

Edit, link shows price, £4.20 off peak day return

http://www.thetrainline.com/buytick...W STREET/22/10/15/12/15/Dep//////Dep/1/0///OR

 

[shmmeee]

£17 from Nuneaton is a joke. I can fly to Rome for that!

 

[wingy]

How many does the platform hold 200-300?
Three hours and six journeys to clear 3000 potential users.
Even If there was that level of demand where would they all wait?
Why don't they just fess up, this Is never going to be of any use for a large event unless there Is a frequency of around ten minutes.
Just be honest and use It how It Is now for the development as a whole through the week,then sell whatever capacity they can generate currently on a season ticket / pre booked basis, first come first served.
Just what level of demand Is there anyway,what market research tells them It's worthwhile to gain all the hardware needed for events once a week for 7-8 months of the year?
A little less vanity and pretention and more honesty would have prevented the subsequent Horlix.

 

[chiefdave]

Ricoh is just inside the boundary of Coventry City Council, so bus & train fares are under the control of Network West Midlands, (formally Centro or W.M.P.T.E.).
So you can use your Bus & Train Daytripper/rider/saver (whatever name it happens to be today).

What will most likley happen, if there's ever any service, is that the regularly scheduled trains won't stop at the Ricoh when events are on. There will be a special service which will be exempt from the daytripper.

 

[Specs WT-R75]

What an absolute fucking shambles, and I am biting my tongue too. Seems even the mighty Wasps couldn't resolve the issues....

 

[fernandopartridge]

What will most likley happen, if there's ever any service, is that the regularly scheduled trains won't stop at the Ricoh when events are on. There will be a special service which will be exempt from the daytripper.

That won't happen as there never will be sufficient trains to run such a system. The other huge problem is that there isn't capacity to run additional services from Coventry anyway as they can only have so many crossing the West Coast Mainline tracks.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

That won't happen as there never will be sufficient trains to run such a system. The other huge problem is that there isn't capacity to run additional services from Coventry anyway as they can only have so many crossing the West Coast Mainline tracks.

All sounds very well thought out this ghost station.

 

[ceetee]

I heard some of this on CWR this am. Apparently the problem of crossing the West coast main Line will be resolved at the end of 2017. After that they can put on extra trains and can increase their capacity (if it's justified). At the moment they can't turn a train round at the Arena station so has to run Cov-Nun-Cov. This will also be resolved in two years or so.

Sounded like this was not new information. was always going to be so.

The £17 fare a bit hypothetical as it is an answer to a question as to what it would cost to put on match day specials in the next two years; sounds like it's not going to happen unless subsidised.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

The answer is just drive and forget the train it's hopeless.

 

[georgehudson]

all parties are to meet at Byatt's Brewery, to attempt to organise a piss-up