That is completely and utterly untrue.
I stayed for one pint and walked out of the Amex before 5.30pm. There was no queue at all for Mithras (there was for Mill Road) and I walked straight onto one of the three waiting double deckers.
So the upshot is that despite the odd hiccup, the Albion do a pretty good job of getting 30,000 people away from The Amex. And as usual, the situation is massively misrepresented by a vocal minority (one in five it seems) on NSC who go on and on, making the issue appear worse than it actually...