Philosoraptor
Well-Known Member
I will sit here and wait. I know someone will have the answer.
The joy of free-market capitalism is that anyone can buy a train for the day: all you need is a spare £15,000 – or £40,000, depending on which report you believe. Virgin charter an average of two trains a week during the football season which take club managers, players and some supporters to away games.
Are we forced to go with London Midland or could we go with another operator?
Having a fully operational service on that line would be helpful. Have you ever tried to get to the Bermuda Park from Coventry by bus?
Its every hour at about twenty two. The train is a joke, i catch it every day and there is regulary 20 plus people having stand as its so full. Can someone explain to me why they extended the platform at bedworth if there was no plan for a bigger train !!!
But hey, why waste a good opportunity to complain about politicians.
very true, although I am sure there are loads of honest decent politicians about. You have clowns like Maton trying to get himself in the limelight whenever possible and just making them look like a bit of a joke.
Sometimes mate I wish I hadn't grown up around politics. It'd be lovely just so shout "they're all bastards" whenever something goes wrong.
Many of them are bastards. Many many more are trying to do their best in a complex job that involves many different organisations with their own agendas.
I'm no fan of any particular politician at CCC. But I'm well aware that even stuff as simple as potholes has a host of laws and regulations and competing organisations.
Something like this involves coordination with the train companies who will have their own agenda. Which has to be approved by central government (and wasn't for a long time) and involves funding from several sources is last guaranteed not to have everything work together. The choices would've been have it open two years before the trains or don't have it open at all. It's a shot situation.
I don't know Maton too well. But the vast majority of those I've met, though occasionally too concerned with the politics and not the policy, genuinely just wants to improve the city and have their hands tied eight ways to Sunday.
But then if they were told years ago about the train situation, why since then have people being going on about how great it will be for the club. Wasps have been going on about shuttle trains every 10 minutes for their fans so they must have been told it too?
Why not just say five years ago "The first step may be limited due to this and that but then when the line is electrified in the second phase it will be a lot better"
I dunno mate. Communication never seems great. I mean this was posted on here a few weeks ago and didn't get this response after someone rang up the train company. Was that the first time anyone knew? How detailed were the plans published? I don't know.
I agree managing expectations would be good in politics. There seems to be an attitude of "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it" possibly due to the fact that they might not be around by that time. I also don't know how rail electrification happens and if it's linked to what he government of the day does.
But yeah, I'd agree that communication has been poor on this and many other projects. It all needs to be a lot more open. Though the press do their best to fuck that up too with sensationalist headlines. and we as the public fuck it up by getting into Twitter hate mob mode. It's a microcosm of politics at a national level I guess. Everyone wants honest politicians but will jump on anyone who tries to be honest (see Farage and Corbyn at a national level). But yeah, all that aside. It should've been made far clearer what the plan was.
But then if they were told years ago about the train situation, why since then have people being going on about how great it will be for the club. Wasps have been going on about shuttle trains every 10 minutes for their fans so they must have been told it too?
Why not just say five years ago "The first step may be limited due to this and that but then when the line is electrified in the second phase it will be a lot better"
FFS... JH did it back in the 60's...Wait a sec, He had the backing of the owners...Forget it!
So London Midland didn't tell the council?I suspect the Wasps were sold the official line to attract the buying of the Arena, everyone thought there would be a load of trains servicing the stadium on match days someone somewhere and i can guess where kept the reality in their heads and that might not be councillors by the way, but someone knew.
So London Midland didn't tell the council?
Wasn't there an article where lm said to the council years ago it would be like this? So somebody there knew.I suspect the Council didn't tell LM or Wasps.
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