Park And Ride For Swc

[Phil The Ace]

Please think of the residents and try and use the park & ride. It will be fastest and easiest way to park your cars.

 

The park & ride is at the Etihad Stadium. There will be 8 large coaches ferrying fans to and from the stadium. These coaches will drop fans right outside the Nationalspeedway Stadium.

 

The coaches will leave once full, which is expected to be every 5 minutes.

 

Price of this park & ride service will be £5 per day.

[OveFundinFan]

Is the park and ride price per car or per person?

[Phil The Ace]

Is the park and ride price per car or per person?

Per car

[TheCookster]

In case anybody is not aware, there is apparently no more disabled parking available at the National Speedway Stadium. They are now expecting anybody who is entitled to disabled parking to use the Park & Ride too. Very poor in my opinion.

[OveFundinFan]

Do yo know what regulations say as to what and how many facilities a staidium has to provide for disabled persons? Think there will be 8000 on Saturday now the temporary east stand is in use for the weekend.

Could be that the demand is in excess of the minimum requirements and it could be that BV has already provided more then the minimum requirement. Unless you know the facts then its difficult to make a comment.

[TheCookster]

Do yo know what regulations say as to what and how many facilities a staidium has to provide for disabled persons? Think there will be 8000 on Saturday now the temporary east stand is in use for the weekend.

Could be that the demand is in excess of the minimum requirements and it could be that BV has already provided more then the minimum requirement. Unless you know the facts then its difficult to make a comment.

 

That may or may not have been the case and BV may or may not have provided more than the minimum they are legally required to provide.

 

I would still maintain that if they are only working to minimum criteria then that is not offering optimum customer service. Surely a better approach would have been to dedicate more disabled spaces at the stadium by redirecting more able bodied visitors to the Park & Ride option. It isn't rocket science, just common sense.

Edited July 27, 2016 by TheCookster

[OveFundinFan]

I dont know the facts any more then you do, but what I said is "it could be that BV has already provided more then the minimum requirement".

I have been to Manchester Arena many times, that indoor stadium holds approx. 20,000, but provide probably space for no more then 40 wheelchairs, and no doubt they are working to regulations.

[TheCookster]

I dont know the facts any more then you do, but what I said is "it could be that BV has already provided more then the minimum requirement".

I have been to Manchester Arena many times, that indoor stadium holds approx. 20,000, but provide probably space for no more then 40 wheelchairs, and no doubt they are working to regulations.

 

Well, what is fact is that the official SWC Facebook page states:

 

VENUE INFO

Disabled Access

Sufficient parking available in accordance with the Green Guide

 

... and this is clearly not the case.

[OveFundinFan]

In case anybody is not aware, there is apparently no more disabled parking available at the National Speedway Stadium. They are now expecting anybody who is entitled to disabled parking to use the Park & Ride too. Very poor in my opinion.

Just been on the BV website and cant see anything about no more disabled parking spots. Where did you find out about the shortage??

I can see that still parking available in the school next to the stadium for Friday night.

[TheCookster]

Just been on the BV website and cant see anything about no more disabled parking spots. Where did you find out about the shortage??

I can see that still parking available in the school next to the stadium for Friday night.

 

I rang them this morning to confirm availability of disabled spaces. I was informed that there were no remaining parking spaces and that the only option was to utilise the Park & Ride from the Etihad.

[waiheke1]

 

That may or may not have been the case and BV may or may not have provided more than the minimum they are legally required to provide.

 

I would still maintain that if they are only working to minimum criteria then that is not offering optimum customer service. Surely a better approach would have been to dedicate more disabled spaces at the stadium by redirecting more able bodied visitors to the Park & Ride option. It isn't rocket science, just common sense.

Out of interest how many disabled spaces do u think they should allocate. And if not filled how many days before the event would you believe it reasonable for them to release them to the general public?

[TheCookster]

Out of interest how many disabled spaces do u think they should allocate. And if not filled how many days before the event would you believe it reasonable for them to release them to the general public?

 

Some standards have been produced by the British Standards Institution (BSI), which recommend that commercial premises should have one space for every employee who is a disabled motorist plus 5% of the total capacity for visitor parking should be designated as disabled parking,

[Star Lady]

Out of interest are the buses being used for Park & Ride low floor therefore wheelchair accessible. If so I cannot see a massive problem.

[TheCookster]

Out of interest are the buses being used for Park & Ride low floor therefore wheelchair accessible. If so I cannot see a massive problem.

 

Whether or not that addresses the problem really depends on the nature of the disability. Not all wheelchair users are disabled and not all disabled people use wheelchairs. That is an overly simplistic take on the situation.

Edited July 28, 2016 by TheCookster

[Steve Shovlar]

Ridiculous to phone the stadium theee days before a sold out event and expect disabled parking.

 

You left it too late. It is 100% your fault. Use the park and ride and remember to book earlier in future.

 

Nothing to see here. Please move along.

[TheCookster]

Ridiculous to phone the stadium theee days before a sold out event and expect disabled parking.

 

You left it too late. It is 100% your fault. Use the park and ride and remember to book earlier in future.

 

Nothing to see here. Please move along.

 

What an ignoramus.

[allthegearbutnaeidea]

Was everybody informed individually of the need to book a car parking space if disabled? If not then that is awful and if they did then there's nothing you can do

[TheCookster]

Just imagine how much worse it could have been had you left your planning to the last minute instead of being so well organised in advance of an event that has been 95%+ sold out for weeks?

 

I'm gobsmacked at the stupidity of it but fair play to you for still letting everyone know about the problem.

 

The fact remains, learned friend, that even now the official SWC website still states that there is sufficient parking for disabled visitors at the venue. If a disabled person reads that (clearly you are not) then what reason would they have to expect that they would need to make a separate booking in order to guarantee availability.

 

Perhaps the organisers should have mentioned something like this when they happily banked the £70 for the ticket.

[Woz01]

 

The fact remains, learned friend, that even now the official SWC website still states that there is sufficient parking for disabled visitors at the venue. If a disabled person reads that (clearly you are not) then what reason would they have to expect that they would need to make a separate booking in order to guarantee availability.

 

Perhaps the organisers should have mentioned something like this when they happily banked the £70 for the ticket.

Are you serious? It's a major event, things sell out especially parking on site. Next people will be moaning the stadium isn't big enough because it's sold out.

[TheCookster]

Are you serious? It's a major event, things sell out especially parking on site. Next people will be moaning the stadium isn't big enough because it's sold out.

 

Of course they do - which is why disabled folk, more than most, will inform themselves, before they even commit to going to an event, that provisions such as parking will be available for them.

 

I was informed back in December 2015 that parking would not be an issue and on that basis I booked my ticket. At no point since has anybody contacted me to inform me otherwise. As they have both my e-mail and home address details, this would not have been a difficult or costly exercise once they became aware that it would potentially be an issue.