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1 minute ago, strichener said:
Probably due to her being on the SDP body that has been ignored by the planners based on financial forecasting that even Rangers probably wouldn't be brazen enough to use.
Maybe, but her final attack before feed crashed was on whether AFC were making a viable financial case, as Barney Rubble pointed out, that's not their remit.
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Marie Boulton clearly against the bag
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1 hour ago, Frank Grimes said:
Have a feeling this won’t get the go ahead but I hope I’m wrong
I genuinely understand the reservations but long term I think this will be brilliant for the Club
And I think we all want to see tears & snotters from the No Kingsford lot later on
Oh aye, already laughing at Diane Reid desperately lying on GMS this morning.
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2 hours ago, DA Baracus said:
Aye just seen that. Costa (coffee is shit) is across the road from the Premier Inn. Drinking pricey pints at a Premier Inn that is a half hour walk away doesn't sound all that appealing. Plus you have to hope it's not one of those hotels that ask for your room number when you order a pint.
none of the FOUR pubs in Westhill/Elrick are 30 minutes away. Shepherds Rest will be 5 minutes walk. Westhill in & Key West under 10. Broadstraik maybe 15 if yer slow.
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2 hours ago, lubo_blaha said:
There’s a Costco nearby...
Two pubs within half an hour’s walk if I’m not mistaken, one of which is attached to a premier inn.Shepherds Rest, Westhill Inn, Broadstraik Inn, Key West, and the golf club & Red Star if yer feeling energetic.
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6 minutes ago, strichener said:
The real funny thing would be Aberdeenshire Council preventing the businesses in Arnhall from using their premises as car parks.
I'd imagine (tho with the state of the tories just now maybe not) that the council wouldn't make a decision based on spite?
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Penny just dropped yesterday, and assuming I can stay employed for another 3 years, we have a couple offices in Westhill where I'll be able to park nae huggle ava. Win/win for me. Get it built. #redforaurora
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8 minutes ago, strichener said:
As will the CPZ that the TA requires.
Thought there wasn't going to be a CPZ, that's one of the nimbys gripes? Or is it that there will be one? f**k knows now, they moan about everything.
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1 hour ago, RiG said:
The development is immediately adjacent to Aberdeenshire Council so they need to be consulted on the application anyway. Also, some of the supporting infrastructure proposed will be on their land.
A footbridge. However that is not why they were consulted as it was only added late in the day due to safety concerns raised.
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18 hours ago, Aberdeen Cowden said:
Fixed for you.
Amending someone's post, lowest of the low.
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41 minutes ago, Jute said:
Also no concerts to be held there.
With the new AECC and the history of bands at Pittodrie, that's probably no loss. Plus the W.A.N.K.S. were totally against that as well so it's a win for them (though I bet if it was Sydney Devine they'd be all for it)
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1 hour ago, lubo_blaha said:
Unless they have a car and access to one of the 1800 parking spaces then they’ll be getting a bus into the city centre then a bus out to Kingsford. Apart from Dyce, none of those places have/will have transport links to Kingsford for every game.Oh ma heid. Why do you keep spouting this pish?
There are nothing like 1800 spaces available now, and the majority of the crowd comes by car. People don't *all* park in the official car park. You can guarantee places like Foxlane for eg will cash in with some parking spots, Garlogie Inn are already saying they'll have a shuttle bus, no doubt so will Jaffs & Red Star.
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12 hours ago, Aberdeen Cowden said:
On matchdays there will be a queue from Kingsford back to Kingswells .How is anyone going to get off the bypass coming from the south? If there are lights on the roundabout it will be different but they ain't there yet.
Maybe you don't know how roads work.
Highly unlikely, there's no queue (well small ones) going to games now, it's leaving that's the issue, and King Street that's the problem.
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We're all going to Kingsford
We're all going to Kingsford
Nah nah nah nah
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14 minutes ago, Aberdeen Cowden said:
You’ll be sitting in a long queue to get off the bypass. Bet no one told you that.
Yup, by which point having breezed along the AWPR you're 500 yards from the Wiggy Dome.
PauloPerth, excuse our locally based friend, he's originally from Cowdenbeath, he doesn't understand how roads work, indeed he wont even walk along them, too scary.
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8 minutes ago, flyingscot said:
It's also designed to ensure that developers locate developments in areas where people can travel by means outwith car.
And if you live in the country where there are no buses, you should just stop going then?
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31 minutes ago, Aberdeen Cowden said:
And the speed limit was reduced a few months ago to 40mph for safety reasons!! the whole length of the road from Westhill to Aberdeen. Should be fun.
TY Steve Delaney, councillor for Sheddocksley, the lycra clad nutter, who drove through this measure single handed, as he did the 50 reduction before it, so that he can ride his bike on the road rather than on the cycle path paid for the entire length of this section. Eff all to do with safety.
Moot point anyway, the W.A.N.K.S. told us it'll be gridlock.
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20 minutes ago, sjc said:
So 20,000 people decending upon Kingsford at the same time on the same roads will take 10 mins.......ok then.
We've done all this before. There is a much greater variety, and larger capacity roads at Kingsford than King Street.
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39 minutes ago, lubo_blaha said:
2000 cars, 50-100 buses (not including supporters buses) plus all the extra cars that will park in the spaces will apparently pop up!
More people will face a longer journey to Kingsford than they do at Pittodrie, that’s a fact, even if you won’t. If the traffic is bad at Pittodrie going in all directions it’ll be even worse on one road out by Westhill.As the Dons own figures suggest 45% come from outside the city, plus for many within the city it will be closer, that my friend is not a fact, it's a lie.
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2 minutes ago, 1320Lichtie said:
It wouldn’t be though as the roads out of Dundee heading towards Arbroath, Aberdeen and Perth are so much better than the roads heading from Aberdeen to Kingsford. It would be more like the stadium being put out 5 mile along the Coupar Angus Road.Err fit? The road out of Aberdeen is dual carraigeway. The roads from north and south will also be dual carraigeway by then. So no.
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7 minutes ago, strichener said:
Yet those are there to ensure sustainability. If you can't meet them then by definition it is unsustainable.
Out of interest, how many spaces do you think AFC should have been allowed on site?
3000 anyway, but probably more.
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2 hours ago, strichener said:
You are basically stating that AFC are submitting their plans on falsehoods.
More cars = more walking = larger bridge = new plans = no stadium.
Supporters of the stadium know that the transport plans are unworkable, opponents know they are unworkable and yet they have been submitted and defended time and time again. At the same time people who are against the stadium and have questioned parking etc. are NIMBYs.
Nope, I'm saying the stupid planning limits made by ACC are not in the real world. Aberdeen does not do buses, we have the lowest bus use and dropping in the country, but AFC have been forced to provide a transport plan in line with regs.
What that will do is force exactly what the W.A.N.K.S. don;t want, and that's cars parking round Westhill. Instead of unrealistic parking limits, ACC should have allowed a car park the size of expected needs to be built.
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2 hours ago, lubo_blaha said:
That’s going to make the traffic situation even worse, half-empty buses and extra cars fighting for non-existent spaces.Even worse than what? Not getting from Pittodrie for sure, and absolutely not "even worse" than rush hour traffic at Westhill which the NKS tried to state.
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The Aberdeen Mega-Hyper New Stadium Thread
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