Before you need ammunition for Monday...

[Wilts]

...after a piss taking on here of one of ouor attendances last season (inexcusably, against Gillingham) quite rightly.

This year they've given us a home fixture on the day of 80,000 cars trying to get through the centre of Reading and the traffic has meant that in the past its taken me 5 hours to go 2 miles.

So now we've got a bloody match at 12pm on Monday no thanks at all to Sky TV, when everyone is leaving the festival site. The M4 is always blocked, the stadium is impossible to get to, bus services hardly running... what a facking farce. Add to that the fact that around 200,000 people apparently come shopping in Reading on a Saturday or Bank Holiday, due to the quality shopping facilities in the centre, and its generally going to be an absolute nightmare.

Getting my excuses in early. Expect it to be about 11,000 again if we're lucky. I doubt whether anyone can get to the ground at all unless they walk! So the attendance could indeed be Zero.

Do you ever find problems with the Park and Ride at Withdean and general traffic? We usually have to deal with the shoppers, but I can really do without this!

Note: When you get Falmer, please ensure that traffic links are suitable for large events, or that the route is off the beaten track in Falmer village away from the busier roads.. Putting a stadium on the edge of a major road like the M4 is not always a good plan.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Sounds like a right balls up!!!

 

[Turkey]

 

[Wilts]

Usual population = 250,000
Population on Monday = 530,000
Population on the road = about 100,000

 

[Seagullible]

excuses excuses!

Hate Reading Festival - 'meeting of the unwashed' as its known by local coppers.
Quality of shopping Maybe for the ladies dragging a poor defenceless bloke round on a sat during close season!

 

[Wilts]

Seagullible, as a relatively-local resident you probably know how much the locals hate the festival.

A fine example of how to throw the entire contents of the Hartley Wintney waste disposal site onto the streets of Reading in the space of 3 days. Queues in John Lewis with greebos waiting to go for a civilised dump.

The shopping is top, though. 8th in the UK no less

www.business-strategies.co.uk/townfutures/files/pr_retailranking2003.doc

 

[Soton Seagull]

I have a day ticket for Reading on Saturady and personally cannot wait. Does seem a stupid time to stage a match though.

 

[Wilts]

Forgot. Stop Press:

The trains to London Paddington are closed for just one weekend of the year... and its this one. Usually there's 200 trains per day, and this weekend there are.......


....none. See here: http://www.thamestrains.co.uk/

Waterloo train only, and that's a local stopping service that takes 2 hours to do 40 miles.

 

[Gwylan]

Note: When you get Falmer, please ensure that traffic links are suitable for large events, or that the route is off the beaten track in Falmer village away from the busier roads.. Putting a stadium on the edge of a major road like the M4 is not always a good plan.

The plan is for most of the crowd (70% I believe) to come by sustainable transport. If we hadn't had that in the plan, the council wouldn't have given us planning permission and we'd have had no chance of getting permission from Prescott.

 

[Citrus]

 

[Seagullible]

Don't worry, I know how much its hated - Pikeys start camping round our way before and after.
Reading is actually good for shopping, just had experience of going round with girlfriends who can't decide which pair of black trousers to buy!

 

[WhitleyDennis]

Seagullible, as a relatively-local resident you probably know how much the locals hate the festival.

A fine example of how to throw the entire contents of the Hartley Wintney waste disposal site onto the streets of Reading in the space of 3 days. Queues in John Lewis with greebos waiting to go for a civilised dump.

The shopping is top, though. 8th in the UK no less

www.business-strategies.co.uk/townfutures/files/pr_retailranking2003.doc

Wrong WILTSHIRE. I love it. And so do most of the people living in this town, with the exception of the £2million home tory tossers living in The Warren (just across the river from the festival). It is f***ing superb to see their reaction to seeing dozens of 6 foot 2 stark bollock naked pissed up punkers swimming across the river to sunbathe and vomit on their lawns.

The Reading Festival is the oldest, and best, rock festival in the land, bar none. Other than the mighty Biscuitmen, the festival is Reading's only claim to fame and one of not many things to be proud of.

All my love,
Whitley D
(First Reading Festival 1983 - as a tiny lad - The Stranglers, Big Country, Black Sabbath, Marillion, Suzi Quatro, Thin Lizzy, Steve Harley, Man, Steel Pulse - bottled offstage, among many others...)

 

[Curious Orange]

Wilts, I have always found the Park & Ride at Withdean very good. Down the M23, turn right, on the bus, in the ground, no bother!!!

Hopefully Falmer will be the same.

 

[Wilts]

Wrong WILTSHIRE. I love it. And so do most of the people living in this town, with the exception of the £2million home tory tossers living in The Warren (just across the river from the festival). It is f***ing superb to see their reaction to seeing dozens of 6 foot 2 stark bollock naked pissed up punkers swimming across the river to sunbathe and vomit on their lawns.

The Reading Festival is the oldest, and best, rock festival in the land, bar none. Other than the mighty Biscuitmen, the festival is Reading's only claim to fame and one of not many things to be proud of.

All my love,
Whitley D
(First Reading Festival 1983 - as a tiny lad - The Stranglers, Big Country, Black Sabbath, Marillion, Suzi Quatro, Thin Lizzy, Steve Harley, Man, Steel Pulse - bottled offstage, among many others...)

I'm no NIMBY... and even went to a couple of festivals. But then I'm a dance bod so just don't like Marilyn Manson fans everywhere. Each to their own

 

[Football Genius aka FG]

suitable traffic links at Falmer LOL! its on the edge of the major A trunk rd around the city, clogged up yep its bad enough in rush hr letalone these thosands of fans coming outta the woodwork as soon as the pipe dream is built! lol! The rd infastructure is just the start of this joke of a plan!

 

[Tom Bombadil]

suitable traffic links at Falmer LOL! its on the edge of the major A trunk rd around the city, clogged up yep its bad enough in rush hr letalone these thosands of fans coming outta the woodwork as soon as the pipe dream is built! lol! The rd infastructure is just the start of this joke of a plan!

And the alternative would be to site it next to one of the many 8 lane motorways that criss-cross the city? You naughty wind up merchant, I ought to come over to your place and give you a big girly hug

 

[WATFORD zero]

He is a cheeky little scamp, that FG

 

[Wilts]

Watch this space... I'm going for a record low of 6,000, with about 8,000 Reading fans in traffic. And about 100 Rotherham fans.

Sky are a f ing disgrace if this happens. Still, I can only live in hope that we hit anything around 11k today considering.

Falmer organisers please watch and take note.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

suitable traffic links at Falmer LOL! its on the edge of the major A trunk rd around the city, clogged up yep its bad enough in rush hr letalone these thosands of fans coming outta the woodwork as soon as the pipe dream is built! lol! The rd infastructure is just the start of this joke of a plan!

Of course traffic in Falmer is a nightmare during the daily rush hours. That's because the two universities and Southern Water's HQ were planned in the 1960s with no thought for a balanced transport strategy.

Falmer Stadium will come with sensible transport arrangements that will keep traffic off the junction with the Woodingdean road (the cause of all the tailbacks). And games won't, of course, take place during "rush hours".

 

[Turkey]

I love the way the bearded one puts people right.