Sick Boy
Super Moderator
Do the council lead them?
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.
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.
From the original proposal, which was the basis for funding being awarded:
Wonder if Lucas will be as keen to take credit now as she was when work started on the station.
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From the Telegraph report at the time the work started:
British Rail weren't the best tho were they!
Safety committee were not picking this one up were they!Wearing sandals on a construction site?? If ever there had been an opportunity to fire the useless wench that was it.
Wonder if Lucas will be as keen to take credit now as she was when work started on the station.
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From the Telegraph report at the time the work started:
'up to'
'could'
'we understand'
But isn't this like building a massive stadium with no one to attend? Surely scoped this our prior to building!She's very naive and shows again that she's out of her depth. It still isn't her (or their) fault.
True but I would suggest if you read that document you would have the impression that services would be increased not that the station would be closed on match days.
Looks like everyone has been given a NUCKLE sandwich.
Sorry.
The project has hit the buffers.
£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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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.
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.
Wonder if Lucas will be as keen to take credit now as she was when work started on the station.
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From the Telegraph report at the time the work started:
It's gone off the rails
Looks like the end of the line
Who funded this project? CCC or Network Rail?
The new Coventry Arena station should be complete in spring next year.
It will form part of a seven-figure upgrade programme which will also see a new station built at Bermuda Park and improvements at Coventry and Bedworth stations.
Grant funding of up to £4.75million has been received from The Department for Transport towards the scheme.
Further European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) grant funding has a been secured in addition to strengthen the viability of the NUCKLE rail project.
Looks like it's ran out of steam
Don't lose track from the debate.
It's Barry Butterworth at CCC. Given the timetable and the train being used it's probably the correct decision. May as well not bother at all on a matchday if you can only take 75 people from the ground after FT. SAG have got things badly wrong in the past but what else could they do on this? It'd end up being like a train to Central Bombay.
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).
The train providers are at fault here for not getting the logistics in place for the services required/promised.
The funding has been put in place for the necessary structure to be built and the line has also been upgraded as part of the NUCKLE.
That was First Class.
Love how the council run the rail network now. The delusion grows.
Seems to me that this is more about rolling stock specification and availability than anything else. The station has clearly been built to cope with the capacity but they don't have either the right train's and/or enough trains available to cope with the capacity of the station during major events at the Ricoh.
Nobody has said the council run the rail network. What has been said is that public money has been given to this scheme on the basis of a level of service which will now not be provided. Would you not expect there to be some sort of safeguard where public money is involved?
Also if you actually read the article the closure of the station on matchdays is nothing to do with Network Rail or London Midland, it is down to the SAG which is led by the council.
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