But that's the point. Walking 45 minutes or sitting in your car might give you the illusion you're heading home, but is it really any different from standing in a queue for 20 minutes at a station literally right next to the stadium? I dunno, it's never really bothered me before. It's all part of football experience and I just factor that into the day. Mill Road P&R, though, can f*** the f*** off. I pity anyone who has to do that regularly.
Then I'll count myself lucky and slightly sensible for moving out of Brighton & Hove when I did. Have to respect those using the P&Rs, it seems a right old hassle using them.
I'm not sure, this my 3rd year in Seaford. I know they were looking at closing down Bishopstone station, but after a successful petition it remained open, the station started being used as an important community hub for locals, mainly the elderly who find themselves living alone.
There has to be some way of staggering the P&R buses so that folks that miss the first tranche of buses aren't standing in a non-moving queue open to the elements for an hour waiting for the buses to come back again. That seems to me to be an appalling way for a business - any business - to treat its customers
Barber in the flurry of interviews he did pre season was pretty clear that they aren't removing the free matchday travel scheme.
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For the first few seasons, the Amex provided a mirror image on the concourses (or at least on the NS concourse) of live information from Falmer station. When's the next train? How late is it running? How many carriages is it? Absolutely no valid excuse why that level of information is no longer provided. In fact it should be extended to include status of P&R buses, queuing times to get out of car parks etc. Hard to conclude other than the club no longer gives a shit about transport info for its customers while they continue to fill the stadium week on week. Not a good look
We currently have free train travel, free bus travel and park & ride sites. It's nonsense to say the club no longer doesn't care. They control what they can control. As far as I am aware we do more than most.
Tend to use London Road station to get to games with a Saturday 3pm ko. Sometimes get an entire carriage at the front of the train more or less to myself. On the way back you just grab the first train going into town that you can. Not helped by the the club's pathetically peurile advice that 'post-match, trains will not be stopping at Moulsecoomb or London Road'. It's complete nonsense that the club have continued to churn out for years now. The trains stop at the stations Southern have them scheduled to stop at. Which as often or not includes Moulescoomb and London Road
It’s not free, it’s part of the ST cost. Happy to pay it btw,
The club are nothing if not shrewd. All that 'free' stuff will be factored into the ticket price down to the nearest penny. As to whether they care or not, their continued silence on transport matters is deafening - and speaks volumes. Maybe if they sent board members out at post-match half-hourly intervals to sample the transport options for themselves, they'd educate themselves as to why people are not best pleased
