crmpicco 142 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 According to the online Evening Times: Quote "New match-day parking controls around celtic Park and Ibrox stadiums should be ready to be rolled out by the end of the year despite “strong objections.” The council has been working on ways to control problems with how cars are parked on match days, which impacts residents living near the grounds of Glasgow’s two big clubs. During discussions about the event day parking zones, there have been concerns from stakeholders about fans being able to access the football grounds. Changes have been made to proposals and now bosses hope they could be ready to be enforced as soon as a consultation finishes by the end of this year. Updating Glasgow City councillors yesterday, an official said: “We are continuing our work on the event parking zones around celtic Park and Ibrox Stadium to try and help residents who live within the vicinity.” She added: “We had to go through quite significant stakeholder engagement and that resulted in quite a lot of feedback. As a result of that, we decided we would have an accessibility assessment done as there were some quite strong objections from major stakeholders that there would be issues with access to the stadium. “We had to go back and do that accessibility assessment and as a result of that we will do some amendments to those plans.” The council has described in the past how there has been “inconsiderate and obstructive parking” around the stadiums. Previous efforts to control the problems had to be dropped as the process was held up by the pandemic among other issues. celtic and Rangers expressed opposition to the plans at the time alongside fans. Speaking at Tuesday’s environment and liveable neighbourhoods city policy committee, the official continued: “Some of you may be aware that there is a bit of history with this one. "And it is really important therefore that we do try to make sure that we take all stakeholders with us and get as much support for that as we can before we take it through the statutory process. “We are hoping to go back out to statutory consultation and we are hoping that consultation will be complete by the end of this year. And that will be ready for us to take forward and implement that for residents around these areas.” Explaining more about the background, a council report presented to the committee said: “A previous traffic regulation process met with significant objection from stakeholders and was referred to an independent reporter. "Every effort is therefore being made to ensure that objections to the proposals are minimised.” It added: “Following feedback received during the engagement sessions, it was deemed necessary to conduct an accessibility assessment for both stadia and amend the originally proposed plans. "At the request of key stakeholders, it was agreed to carry out further in-person meetings with them once the designs have been amended. "Current projections show that the statutory process could be complete by the end of the year 2024, ready then for physical implementation.” The exact details of the proposed restrictions were not discussed at the meeting but the LDRS previously reported how event-day parking zones would allow residents and businesses to use permits to park as they would on non-match days. Residents’ visitor permits can also be purchased. Those who breach restrictions would face fines." Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERITAS VOS LIBREBETS 3,415 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Short version - 'we are looking at ways to rinse the fuck out of matchday supporters' Boybluesy, gmcf and SeparateEntityMyArse 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
left winger 15,515 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 In two minds regarding this. It’s must be a pain in the arse trying to get parked near where you live on match days, but everyone trying to do so knew what it would be like before they moved there, or got their car. Theres no doubt, though, that lots of folks’ parking is utter shite and totally inconsiderate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEPPS BOY 77,400 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Just do what i do and park away from stadium and jump subway over. Leave just after half time and you miss all the traffic. BelfastWillie and starofdavid 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForeverAndEver 73,794 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Bastards. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevemac 5,404 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 this gonna mean that Govan road up from the science centre is gonna be restricted? raging if so, always use it for gigs at the hydro & rangers matches Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueshoff 12,751 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Surprised that the council aren't buying some land to build a mega car park at the piggery Loyal-Bear, surfsup2 and gmcf 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
docspiderman 1,299 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 I was under the impression that this had been shelved. I made an objection to the planned parking controls when it was first suggested and was kept up to date with the reviews. The last message was that it had been decided it would not go ahead and I have heard nothing since then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
psb07158 35,232 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 4 minutes ago, docspiderman said: I was under the impression that this had been shelved. I made an objection to the planned parking controls when it was first suggested and was kept up to date with the reviews. The last message was that it had been decided it would not go ahead and I have heard nothing since then. Shelved due to COVID but now back on the agenda of the useless councillors running this city docspiderman and surfsup2 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
docspiderman 1,299 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Just now, psb07158 said: Shelved due to COVID but now back on the agenda of the useless councillors running this city Sneaky as ever. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
graeme_4 37,345 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Stop you driving but make an arse of any public transport. Sounds about right. surfsup2, left winger and SeparateEntityMyArse 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unionblue 4,102 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 They'll find any way possible to get money out of folk surfsup2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeparateEntityMyArse 55,268 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Less motors near the stadium means my RSC bus can get nearer to the stadium parked up with its hazard lights on to collect us. Fuck having to walk as far as Old Govan Road much longer. Great news, fuck the motorists. Unionblue 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B1872 21,897 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Scummy tarrier muck council just trying to get as much money out of football fans as they can. The amount of cars getting tickets at Hampden the last month or so was fucking ridiculous as well. Public transport has become a fucking farce since Covid not to mention them putting rail fares back up in October along with reduced carriages. It’s honestly never ending with the cunts in power in this country! Unionblue and surfsup2 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brubear 2,972 Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 16 hours ago, STEPPS BOY said: Just do what i do and park away from stadium and jump subway over. Leave just after half time and you miss all the traffic. I find if you arrive around 30 minutes after KO getting to the ground is easier as well. 😅😅 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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