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shmmeee

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The plans already exist for VLR but the problem is we seem to be reinventing the wheel with VLR so rather than being able to crack on and start building using the same tech in place elsewhere we've got to develop new tech and run trials.

Will be decades before this is up and running, if ever.


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Last govt cut funding saying they weren’t sure Cov was the right place apparently. Agree though, just build a fucking tram, not everything has to be “innovative”.
 

wingy

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I want a Cov orbital metro. Stops at Torrington Ave, Warwick Uni, War Memorial, Finham, Willenhall, Binley, Walsgrave, the CBS, Prologis Park, Browns Lane, Eastern Green.

Don’t need to mess about with city centre traffic and building, would serve 90% of the city’s transport needs. Can add in cross lines into the centre later.

What’s the new WM Mayor doing? I’ve heard nothing since his election.
Who was he again,but makes little difference if we're subservient to greater conurbation I think (
 

SkyBluePower

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What about all those car parking spaces at the back of the Showcase/Tesco etc? That’s an enormous space . Ansty business park also has thousands. Would need to negotiate but surely not impossible.
Would be a brilliantly located P&R- exits to M69, M6, A46 and A4600.
Because it’s so close and just up the motorway, a bus could make many trips an hour. A fleet of 10 buses could disperse thousands of people- home and away.
 

OffenhamSkyBlue

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Parker ( I had already Googled)
Nah, that's the name of the tiger in Life of Pi.

Andy "Tosspot" Street was banging on about a whole host of transport infrastructure projects across the region while he was in post, but many were never delivered, or delivered late and horrendously over-budget (maybe the cost of his hi-viz jackets and hard hats he wore while gurning at all the photo opps).
Parker has ordered an inquiry into what went wrong and what can be done West Midlands transport probe expected to begin within weeks

Let's see if anything happens.
 

chiefdave

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Street was very good at the tell the person you're talking to what they want to hear thing. At the same time not a lot seemed to be achieved.

Cov was last on his list for any public transport improvements and the parts he did manage to get done were massively over budget and if memory serves they had to stop running at one point because they were deemed unsafe.
 

itsabuzzard

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Park and Ride with tram stops at Exhall, Binley Woods, Baginton and Allesley with route North:South and East:West through city centre with stops at rail station and CBS Arena.

Start with the Exhall Baginton route to include railway station and CBS Arena.

Or something like that. Should be finished about the time we win the. Champions League.
Three years is a very tight schedule for a project of that size.
 

GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee

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For Brighton tickets holders Bus and train tickets from Brighton and Lewis are free of charge
It's definitely a major positive and something I wish we did. It's also potentially worth pointing out, last time we went to Brighton, we waited for probably over an hour to get the free bus back to the car park. As an experience, it's not one I am really envious of. Instead of sitting in a car waiting, I was stood waiting for a bus, which then takes 15 minutes to get you to your car, which you then have to queues to join.
 

Mcbean

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It's definitely a major positive and something I wish we did. It's also potentially worth pointing out, last time we went to Brighton, we waited for probably over an hour to get the free bus back to the car park. As an experience, it's not one I am really envious of. Instead of sitting in a car waiting, I was stood waiting for a bus, which then takes 15 minutes to get you to your car, which you then have to queues to join.
we parked in Lewis - got the bus there and the train back - we had to queue to get back on the train after the match but unlike the toy train at the CBS it was full length - decent planning by the club
 

Flying Fokker

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we parked in Lewis - got the bus there and the train back - we had to queue to get back on the train after the match but unlike the toy train at the CBS it was full length - decent planning by the club
I guess the location of the stadium influences that.. Fair chance it’s factored into the ticket cost as well.
 

MalcSB

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I nearly got run over on the way to the Arena today. Perhaps the road should be closed before matches.
 

Grendel

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I nearly got run over on the way to the Arena today. Perhaps the road should be closed before matches.

It’s @SBAndy i suspect. Was it a 32 year old lada Riva? He’s the man
 

SkyBluePower

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Those roadworks have absolutely shafted everyone happening at the same time as the A444 closure.
Both can’t happen at the same time and expect a safe dispersal from the area or Tesco but no one will do so and us football fans will just have to put up with it until “Spring 25” - ie after the season is over .
 

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