Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:57 am  

roader wrote:

I just wonder how many did change to the West terrace as I assume the capacity must have been set lower than what it could really hold.

Yes it was but the problem was that so many scrunched in at one end. If they'd spread out across the whole stand then I don't think anyone would have noticed.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:31 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Yes it was but the problem was that so many scrunched in at one end. If they'd spread out across the whole stand then I don't think anyone would have noticed.

exactly, there was plenty room for the amount of people, but the herding mentallity took over

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:46 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

exactly, there was plenty room for the amount of people, but the herding mentallity took over

Nothing that a few cattle prods won't sort out!

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:46 pm  

and on a different note a short video of the new lighting on Saints Way bridge http://youtu.be/2jOFA-GQ_rA

and on a different note a short video of the new lighting on Saints Way bridge http://youtu.be/2jOFA-GQ_rA

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:33 am  

Gruntfuttock wrote: and on a different note a short video of the new lighting on Saints Way bridge http://youtu.be/2jOFA-GQ_rA Wouldn't the council have been better making the bridge wider and safer rather than spending money on fairy lights? Oh by the way it rained all day at Salford yesterday and the concourses were dry.

Gruntfuttock wrote: and on a different note a short video of the new lighting on Saints Way bridge http://youtu.be/2jOFA-GQ_rA Wouldn't the council have been better making the bridge wider and safer rather than spending money on fairy lights? Oh by the way it rained all day at Salford yesterday and the concourses were dry.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:57 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Wouldn't the council have been better making the bridge wider and safer rather than spending money on fairy lights?

In what way is the bridge unsafe? I think its fair to say the bridge has been built as wide as it was planned to be built and that there was no toss up between an extra 10 feet in width and some lights . . . . .

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:03 am  

FearTheVee wrote:

In what way is the bridge unsafe? I think its fair to say the bridge has been built as wide as it was planned to be built and that there was no toss up between an extra 10 feet in width and some lights . . . . .

Look at the pictures of people leaving the ground on Friday. It looked a struggle getting over the bridge.
I think the pictures were from Chairmaker.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:11 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Look at the pictures of people leaving the ground on Friday. It looked a struggle getting over the bridge.
I think the pictures were from Chairmaker.

So a lot of people used it, therefore it is unsafe?

If it was wider it wouldn't be any less busy, there'd just be even more people piling on to it at once.

I don't recall it collapsing or reports of people being injured in a crush. It's a busy bridge after the match, nobody would expect anything else - especially until people cotton on to using the PX exit instead.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:19 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Look at the pictures of people leaving the ground on Friday. It looked a struggle getting over the bridge.

I walked over that bridge with the rest of humanity on Friday night and there was no crush, no struggle, nothing like that at all. The crush was down the side of Tesco, something the club is discussing with Tesco. We were all moving very nicely over the bridge. The bridge was built for the purpose of moving thousands of fans from the site to the town centre. That is its purpose. It is still there today. It didn't collapse!

The only work being done on the bridge is the addition of fencing on either end so as to avoid people taking a nosedive down the slopes on either side. That is sensible because although the bridge area is well lit, people could slip and so some form of fencing to guide people away from the edges makes perfect sense.

Re: Stadium Site pictures : Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:59 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Wouldn't the council have been better making the bridge wider and safer rather than spending money on fairy lights?

Oh by the way it rained all day at Salford yesterday and the concourses were dry.

So let me get this straight, instead of completeing the bridge as planned with the extra lights you would like the council to spend millions of YOUR council tax to widen and completely redesign the bridge? you do know what it would entail to widen the bridge? , very poor trolling attempt Rogues , I know the wide boulevards leaving the DW rented stadium never get packed with fans , and yes the bridge was busy on Friday but no way was it dangerous in any way , we were leaving a game not evacuating the Titanic!