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- Aug 21, 2018
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Back home in Shoreham 8.20pm - nice little bike ride
I trialled a bus only return today and it was predictably terrible, albeit in unpredictable ways.
1 from Southern Cross was fine.
49 from Floral clock was the slowest any vehicle has ever moved without being stationary. I was in my seat 5 mins after KO.
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49 back decided to terminate at the bus depot so I MINCED ( [MENTION=70]Easy 10[/MENTION] ) off for some fish and chips.
The 1A I got on next was decommissioned at Churchill Sq because some **** decided to puke over his seat and the window.
Cue a 6 back to Benfield Way.
Total transport time well over 3 hours which is not good.
Next time there's no trains, I'm just not bothering. Can't be arsed with this shit.
An absolute circus getting away. It's like the club were determined to get everyone there so the stadium looked good for the television audience, but then were not really bothered if it became a total shambles afterwards
Looking forward to Chailey Jem popping up in a bit though and telling us his journey was quit smooth, which means the transport was an overwhelming success
Same here. A four and a half hour round trip from Hassocks is absolutely ridiculous.
Mill Road park and ride was the worst it had ever been. There was a shortage of buses which the club knew but did disclose. Waited 45 minutes for a bus to get to the game arriving at 4.55 and there was a long queue behind me. After the game we had a beer and waited our usual 45 minutes so that we could get a bus within about 10 minutes as usual but ended up waiting another 45 minutes. Had we known there was a shortage of buses we would have made other arrangements
It was all a bit bizarre.
I drove from Bognor to the Bridge car park, I left home at 2.45pm and got into my seat at 5.15pm.
After taking 2 and half hours to get there, I stayed to the final whistle, hot footed it back to the car park somehow managed to get out straight away and was home by 8.30pm, in 1 hour.
I guess the smooth getaway had something to do with the scoreline and also parking near the car park exit.
It seemed more people were hanging on until the final whistle hoping for an equaliser.
I had a similar experience at the Burnley game last season which also had me questioning why I bother.
Should have used the Pyecombe P&R, piece of cake.
I used ST and getting there was fine, in fact we were early despite queues on the A27 as far back as the Lewes bypass.
Post match was different though. The coach sat in the park until well after 8:00 but then once on the move we were directed straight out onto the A27 with stewards holding up all other traffic.
How to solve the problems. Individual cars seemed to get in the way both pre and post match. Village way was just jammed with cars, generally wives coming to pick up husbands. So next time ban all cars from village way. Coaches & Buses need there own bus lane on the A27 west bound slip road. There needs to be police at the roundabout at the top of the slip road getting buses/coaches moving. Police stopping all cars entering Village Way. The 25 bus that serves the Uni should NOT drive through the campus on the west side but, using a bus lane, have priority straight through to Village Way. Cars leaving the Uni car parks need to be controlled. Having police at the Falmer Village roundabout controlling the flow would ensure that cars move fast but at the same time don't block the roundabout for buses.