Getting home from ashburton...

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:39 am

I sometimes walk home..... Takes 40 minutes but saves fucking around with London transport.....

Robsy · Post by **Robsy** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:25 am

Finsbury Park was okay after the Villareal game, much better than it is normally.

But, two interesting things:

Arsenal have bought some land opposite Hollaway tube, in effect it is a corridor that leads along side the railway track all the way to the stadium. They have planning permission to convert the spaces under the railway line into shops and make a wide pathway.

Arsenal have also just bought the Metro bar next to Holloway station.

Now this might be doing a 1+1=3, but it is possible that Arsenal, when the recession has turned the corner, decide to hand Metro's over to TFL with the understanding that it is used to create a second, larger, exit for Holloway. Then to make money up, they convert the path opposite leading upto the ground and rent-out the converted railway line shops.

Just a theory, but could make some sense and better than just handing TFL money to convert Holloway and only to find out it's been spent elsewhere. (TFL couldn't gaurantee the money Arsenal gave them would be spent on Holloway and weren't prepared to be told by the club where to spend the money. As TFL has financial 'problems', Arsenal weren't prepared to chance the money getting lost in the system.)

goonersid · Post by **goonersid** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:43 am

Starting to get worried by these posts as I'm going to the Chavs league game on the Sunday, but have to be at Stansted for 7-45 latest to catch the 8-10 flight, could I get special dispensation from the forum to leave 5 mins early?

Post by **REB** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:49 am

tough one sid, i have done it a couple of times and it can be very close, best bet is grab a cab to tottenham hale , cost about a tenner but at least you will get there on time and the stanstead express every 15 mins so thats handy

goonersid · Post by **goonersid** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:51 am

REBEL GOONER wrote:tough one sid, i have done it a couple of times and it can be very close, best bet is grab a cab to tottenham hale , cost about a tenner but at least you will get there on time and the stanstead express every 15 mins so thats handy

Rebel,
Where is best place to get a cab around the stadium?

Post by **REB** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:54 am

best bet would be to walk up holloway rd, plenty of cabs driving up and down and i think theres a mini cab base there somewhere , someone on here might post where if they can

but i cant remember which side as the last time we got cabs back to seven sisters cos was too drunk to walk

augie · Post by **augie** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:01 am

At the final whistle of a saturday game I basically have to leg it up to finsbury park, go through the usual queuing problems and then get the tube to hale where I get the stanstead express back out. Sometimes it can be tight on time but most of the time its ok

JMascis666 · Post by **JMascis666** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:41 am

I always come out of the stadium, avoid the police flow control onto Holloway Road, by doing the back doubles so you come out by The Coronet and the catch a bus up to Archway Station, gotta be better than standing in a queue for 45 minutes.

goonersid · Post by **goonersid** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:04 am

I don't usually do over and back on the same day, but have no option on this occasion.

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:25 am

Chippy wrote:The Holloway Road thing is a total cock up. Islington made it a condition of planning that the club upgrade the station to take high volumes and asked the club for about Â£7m. After permission was given TFL said it would cost about Â£100m and asked Arsenal for it. Rightly the club told them to shove it. It is just typical of this country that we have a 60,000 venue literally between 2 rail lines and it is impossible to get away by public transport.

The above numbers are off the top of my head and probably wrong but you get the picture.

A little tip but don't tell anyone, after evening games walk to the bus stop by the Tollington and get a 29 or 253 to Camden Town, Mornington Cres or Euston. They're pretty quick at that time of night. Not so good on Saturday.

Don't tell them!! That's what I do!!!!

Sometimed the 253 is so busy just to get on (box bus) that you don't even pay. So many people craming in at the front that the driver can't spot eveyone and loads of seat upstairs.

12thGooner · Post by **12thGooner** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:28 am

i worked for islington council building control at the time the stadium was in planning, don't get me wrong at the time is still training for a job in IT so all i did was open their mail, which included hard and soft copies of the plans for the stadium. which i spent a good many lunch break browsing. included in it were current people disposal numbers which were in the 10's of thousands of people per hour along with other random items such as the number of pigeons in the area.

they are all viewable at
http://www.islington.gov.uk/Leisure/ars ... um/404.asp

although the one relating to transport suddenly seems not to be working.

Its Up 4 Grabs Now · Post by **Its Up 4 Grabs Now** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:12 am

Usually either walk up to Manor House to get on the Picadilly - bit of a trek & in the opposite direction to home but Iâ€™d rather be on the move than queuing up - or down to H&I for the Victoria, depending on where my ticket was in the ground.

Either way itâ€™s not all that much of a problem as long as youâ€™re prepared to walk a bit. Most of the twats that always leave early have just spent 90 minutes sitting on their arse so they shouldnâ€™t exactly be tired.

MK Gould · Post by **MK Gould** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:17 pm

digger wrote:You're all fucking mental, I've only ever had a problem getting away from the ground once when Highbury and Islington was closed due to a fire somewhere else. I walked down to Upper St, caught a bus to Moorgate and was at Liverpool St about an hour after the full time whistle. Meanwhile, the people who left 20 minutes before the end of the game were probably still queuing down Blackstock Road.

If you all try to pile into the station immediately outside the ground, you're going to have problems. If you walk to the next station (FP) and try to get on the same train line, you'll probably find most trains are already full and congestion will ensue.

And they say football supporters are fucking stupid

I can see your point. We drive most of the time, never leave before the end, and normally back home (15 miles north of MK) by 630pm for Saturday games.

On Wednesday night we used the Piccadilly line instead. Stayed until Pires left the pitch, went for a pee, strolled back to Arsenal station and were back in Cockfosters by 1040pm. I didn't think that was bad.

BT · Post by BT » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:38 pm

I get the bus from Highbury and Islington to either Kings Cross or Angel. Or all the way home. Only takes about 20 mins in total.

What the hell are S**ds going to do with their 60,ooo seater stadium (presuming its full)?

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:42 pm

BT wrote:I get the bus from Highbury and Islington to either Kings Cross or Angel. Or all the way home. Only takes about 20 mins in total.

What the hell are S**ds going to do with their 60,ooo seater stadium (presuming its full)?

Hydroplanes are useful in swampy areas.