Travel (3 Viewers)

[Old Warwickshire lad]

People seriously suggesting the national stadium should have been built on wasteland near a retail park near Birmingham? Can't imagine anything worse. Had to be Wembley. No excuse for not having a more coordinated travel plan though, but even then, can you imagine the chaos of having a single station serving 90K people? The travel options for London and Wembley far more suited than any purpose built venue could ever be.

What you on about waste land. Could have put it anywhere near the arena. Designated international railway station, international airport with monorail link and enough car parks for 1000’s of cars and coaches. Right next to the centre of the motorway system for the country.

 

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[Si80]

Drove down leaving Cov at midday. Parked on a driveway in Stanmore for £7 at 2pm. Out of Wembley once I’d shed a tear at Vik waving goodbye to us. Straight onto the tube and back to Stanmore and home by 10pm.

Trains are fucked in this country atm.

 

[theferret]

What you on about waste land. Could have put it anywhere near the arena. Designated international railway station, international airport with monorail link and enough car parks for 1000’s of cars and coaches. Right next to the centre of the motorway system for the country.

You could not have created adequate transport infrastructure needed from scratch for a venue that size in the middle of nowhere without eye watering investment. One rail hub, compared to London with rail connections to every corner of the country terminating at one of Euston, Kings Cross, Paddington, Waterloo, Victoria and others, with local distribution across a subway network.

I once inadvertently got caught in traffic coming out of the NEC when crufts was on and got stuck for 2 hours.

Not to mention the fact that people enjoy going to London for a showpiece event. Eating, drinking, hotel options are plentiful. Then there is the football heritage argument.

If they had built a national stadium by the NEC people would have hated it.

 

[EalingSB]

Just got home. Sad indictment of our train network that it’s easier to get to Geneva from London than it is to get a train to Coventry. Fantastic build-up and made me so proud to see that sea of sky blue but totally flattened by the defeat.

 

[clint van damme]

Imagine if Sunderland and Middlesbrough were there. Would still be trying to get home now
Kick off time was the big issue

Bad enough for us and Luton. Would have been scandalous for them to have had to go to London for a 4 45pm kick off.
No thought given to match going fans whatsoever.

 

[SBAndy]

Will never travel on a coach to Wembley again, traffic management was an absolute shambles. Didn’t even get a KFC…

 

[clint van damme]

Will never travel on a coach to Wembley again, traffic management was an absolute shambles. Didn’t even get a KFC…

What would you do next time mate?
Because it sounds like the trains were a shambles as well. Hope you've had a KFC today to make up for it!

 

[Grendel]

What would you do next time mate?
Because it sounds like the trains were a shambles as well. Hope you've had a KFC today to make up for it!

I think to be fair regarding trains there was a fatality past Northampton so tbe line was closed - the issue was the dire communication at Euston and the decision not to allow fans on the platform

 

[Sbarcher]

Imagine if Sunderland and Middlesbrough were there. Would still be trying to get home now
Kick off time was the big issue

Will be an issue also today. Barnsley and Sheffield only 16 miles apart all heading in exactly the same direction.

 

[RegTheDonk]

Drove down leaving Cov at midday. Parked on a driveway in Stanmore for £7 at 2pm. Out of Wembley once I’d shed a tear at Vik waving goodbye to us. Straight onto the tube and back to Stanmore and home by 10pm.

Trains are fucked in this country atm.

Think I may do this next time, if we're at Wemb for a big final. Managed to get on a train from Euston about 9.30 but packed and standing all the way to Cov. If we'd have won might not have seemed so bad. It stopped at Watford for a while, police called to sort something out a few carriages up. Lots of our fans (and Luton) left on the platform and weren't allowed on.

 

[thekidfromstrettoncamp]

We got lucky coming home by reading some posts at times like this is it not posible to run special trains (takes me back to JH's time) just for Wembley or is there no room on the lines, a) other travellers would not be inconvenienced by footie fans and b) freeing up the system with no tube journeys from Euston or Watford.
I just think although fans give transport companies load of cash at times like Saturday very little thought is giving them a decent service let them stand on overcrowded trains god forbid an accident ever happens would cost those involved a small fortune.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Will never travel on a coach to Wembley again, traffic management was an absolute shambles. Didn’t even get a KFC…

Given how bad every method of transport seemed to be you'll be having to give it two days and walk. Though after that I'd say you'd earned two KFC's.

 

[Sky Blue Lind]

We went on an executive coach (not sure it was though) driver did not even know how to put the radio on . Left Coventry 10 45 and then at 12 he pulled into services and said he was having a 45 min break . We got to Wembley at 3 20 . We got the train home as there was no way we were going to sit on that coach again

 

[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

We got lucky coming home by reading some posts at times like this is it not posible to run special trains (takes me back to JH's time) just for Wembley or is there no room on the lines, a) other travellers would not be inconvenienced by footie fans and b) freeing up the system with no tube journeys from Euston or Watford.
I just think although fans give transport companies load of cash at times like Saturday very little thought is giving them a decent service let them stand on overcrowded trains god forbid an accident ever happens would cost those involved a small fortune.

Don't know why they didn't do what they back in 87 Cup final, trains just for fans from Cov to Wembley stadium and back again. Worked okay.

 

[chiefdave]

You wonder how they can get it so wrong on pretty much every method of travel given the number of events held at Wembley

 

[Nick]

Got the train line refund. Kept a tenner though. They will have made a fortune

 

[napolimp]

A competent rail network would be putting on enough charter services to get all fans down and back, here they can't even run the scheduled services.

 

[chiefdave]

Got the train line refund. Kept a tenner though. They will have made a fortune

Needs a bit of press coverage. Bit of bad PR and they’ll be refunding the tenners as a ‘goodwill gesture’

 

[pusbccfc]

Everyone in the country knows that the new stadium should have been built by the NIA/NEC .
Cheaper to build, all transport links available,middle of the country etc.
But it was never going to move from London ,bastards think it’s England and the rest of us don’t exist.

The transport links at the NEC are far worse than Wembley.

Wembley is on two mainlines and has multiple tube stations. The bigger issue is the railway companies in this country.

 

[pusbccfc]

You could not have created adequate transport infrastructure needed from scratch for a venue that size in the middle of nowhere without eye watering investment. One rail hub, compared to London with rail connections to every corner of the country terminating at one of Euston, Kings Cross, Paddington, Waterloo, Victoria and others, with local distribution across a subway network.

I once inadvertently got caught in traffic coming out of the NEC when crufts was on and got stuck for 2 hours.

Not to mention the fact that people enjoy going to London for a showpiece event. Eating, drinking, hotel options are plentiful. Then there is the football heritage argument.

If they had built a national stadium by the NEC people would have hated it.

Spot on.

No different to the Harry Styles fans complaining about the issues last week. There are problems getting away from the NEC for concerts and it only holds 15,000 people. If it was 90,000, there would be the need to serious infrastructure improvement.

Wembley has its faults due to the stadium design/atmosphere but the idea it's poorly linked is totally false.

The issue Saturday comes down to the train companies awful service since Covid, the late kick off and extra time.

 

[wingy]

Bad enough for us and Luton. Would have been scandalous for them to have had to go to London for a 4 45pm kick off.
No thought given to match going fans whatsoever.

Well idk were we second to the womens league being settle?

 

[Captain_Slackbladder]

I travelled back to Kent after the game and was pleasantly surprised just how easy it was to get away from the stadium. Straight onto Metropolitan line, change at Baker Street for the Jubilee Line. I also hung around in the stadium a bit clapping the Cov players so had fully expected to queue for some time at Wembley Park, but got straight on a tube.

 

[chiefdave]

No different to the Harry Styles fans complaining about the issues last week. There are problems getting away from the NEC for concerts and it only holds 15,000 people. If it was 90,000, there would be the need to serious infrastructure improvement.

I go to the NEC regularly and can't think of a single time I've had problems getting away at the end of the night. Short walk to the car and then 10 minutes tops before I'm on the A45. The NIA on the other hand ...

In fact the whole of Brum city centre is a disaster zone if you need to drive anywhere. Major roadworks seem to have been going on for years and sat nav can't keep up with the changes so you end up directed down roads that are closed or don't even exist anymore.

 

[Mcbean]

I m with you chief - I don’t go to Brum at all for gigs as it’s a fuckfest to get home to South of Stratford unless you want to come home the next day

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

The transport links at the NEC are far worse than Wembley.

Wembley is on two mainlines and has multiple tube stations. The bigger issue is the railway companies in this country.

You could almost say them being run by private companies hasn't improved the service or the infrastructure...