I just want Southern gone.
Why aren't there? There could be a row of taxis in that road that goes past the Keep. for example. Thirty or forty taxis wouldn't solve everything but that would be a help.
That explains a lot. From 6:30pm to about 7:00pm, we barely moved outside the station. We all knew there was a 6:49pm train, but there was no movement.
I agree there is a lot of passing the buck, every group has a solution, they just can’t get approval off the others which isn’t ideal. The general rolling stock order will take years to fulfill, there isn’t a short term solution. The rolling stock issue is the key to unlocking it all, but that won’t be solved until one of the parties is proactive.
Having a different operator, with exactly the same constraints isn’t going to change anything, except the colour and the logo of the train.
Where would you suggest this shuttle starts and finishes, there is nowhere at Falmer to park say a dozen buses to pick up and where are these buses coming from when there are none spare
The planning days were so long ago that it wasn't Southern when the process started - it was Connex. I remember the great and still-missed Lord Bracknell saying that the whole transport side did have a lot of holes in it that the club were glossing over - such as saying that 100%, yes 100% of away fans would arrive by coach! On the trains side he said our whole argument was based on little more than a single A4 letter from Connex saying "Yeah, we can cope with the crowds". We were lucky that our opponents were almost solely focussed on the environmental impact of the stadium build itself.
I think (and my geography might be wrong here) that they'd have to exit the same way as the Bridge/BACA car park. Which is already chaos.
At the risk of repeating earlier posts on this thread it all works perfectly fine at the weekend. Wolves was one of the easiest to/from train journeys I’ve done.
I tried that once, and yes it was raining, thinking this is a clever ploy. The result was two Brighton bound trains pulled in while I was still waiting for the Lewes train. Best laid plans and all that.
Fine if they drop the price of the season ticket accordingly. Obviously not going to happen all the while we are paying millions a year in salaries.
Yes, you're right. Because I've cycled that way I thought there was a through road but it's for bikes and pedestrians only. It was only an example though. There may be other places for a rank - I'm surprised that there's nowhere, cabbies would do good business on a match day.
It would be interesting to know for sure, but I park near the Bridge as I have resident tickets as my youngest lives in the area. There are loads of others who have permits who I see in the adjacent streets, I guess many family and friends of locals do this each home match. It may be that a similar number of people park in those areas as before, just that the free-for-all is no longer happening.
The cost of that would probably be prohibitively expensive in all honesty, but also the issue would be the train would have nowhere to go really after Falmer, you'd have to run it to Eastbourne, stable it and then turn it around hours later. As well, there is already 6 trains an hour on the route, which is full capacity, and 8 trains between Lewes and Southerham Junction, which is full capacity. I think we are all mostly in agreement it works on the weekend with 6/7/8 carriage trains, but that can't be achieved midweek.I got shot down in flames a few years ago for coming up with this suggestion, so bearing in mind the apparent lack of rolling stock affecting rail travel for mid-week games I thought I’d put this out again :
Is it possible for the club to charter an eight coach train to carry out a shuttle service between Brighton and Lewes for pre and post match periods? Maybe even two trains - one towards Lewes and one to Brighton so that they both arrive at Falmer at roughly the same time. Surely that would ease the indescribable congestion that occurs every time we have an evening fixture.
I’m looking at this from a layman’s point of view so maybe you train buffs and experts can have your say on the feasibility of such a project. Cheers!