An airport line isnt irrelevant. It just shouldnt be prioritised over the light rail plan.
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I don't see any real advances being mooted for the Perth Stadium. Do you?
Given Adelaide Oval is the trendsetter with reps from both Melbourne venues doing some fact finding junkets, I'd expect the WA stadium to be the equal of any 2018 stadium in 2018.
From an engineering viewpoint it seems Adelaide is streets ahead of any other stadium in Aus.
Not from a capacity point of view. Maybe from a comfort point of view.
In what way exactly?
The Perth stadium itself will probably be good. The location is going to be terrible, along with all the urban infrastructure of Perth. It's going to sit alongside a major freeway that's only 2 lanes wide with a pissweak 80kph limit that struggles enough as it is. Being on the train line does help, but they would definitely need a lot more running to want to clear 40,000 people on game day. Even the train station car parks aren't enough at the best of times, they need to multi-storey most of them anyway but as far as I know there's been talk of it, but no action. It now costs $2 a day for parking regardless, so hopefully that money will be used for improving public transport. As for the casino which will be right next door, parking is terrible there every single weekend so a massive multi-level carpark is going to be needed. By that I mean like 10,000 spaces big.
tl;dr - Perth urban design SUCKS
It'll cost $25 a day at the least by 2018; that's no hyperbole.It now costs $2 a day for parking regardless, so hopefully that money will be used for improving public transport.
It'll cost $25 a day at the least by 2018; that's no hyperbole.
The main mistake with AO is that the stand on the best viewing side of the ground is the smallest just being built for cricket before footy was going there. Needed to be at least the same size as the new one on the opposite wing.
Have you even looked at the published plans?
Do you even see the point I was making? Yeah they can move most of the capacity out of the area in a very short time? But where do those people go? They will all just have to bottleneck somewhere else.
Instead of trying to be a smartarse maybe see the point of my post is regarding Perth & the surrounds, not the new stadium itself. Maybe things will change but improvement needs to be overall, not band aid certain areas & 'let the rest sort itself out'
The points you raise have all been addressed.
Engineering: what a couple of Baulderstone on site guys told me, friends of my daughters at a bbq - one headhunted from the Carribean for the job ...
And.................... they said the engineering was superior because...............................?
Not being an engineer I accepted it as a fact - bringing a guy from the other side of the world for the job was credentials enough for me - if a Merc works engineer said one model was a step forward from an earlier I'd accept it too.
Are you suggesting engineering of stadiums has stood still for more than a decade?
From an engineering viewpoint it seems Adelaide is streets ahead of any other stadium in Aus.
But from a design point it's way behind.
Really, how so?
It's designed for cricket not football.
Bet you love your work!
By that remark I can only take it that you work for BF and are trying to get the number of hits up.
But yes, I am an analyst. It's my job to analyse.
WAFL warns grassroots football will be ‘major loser’ in Burswood switch
Fair amount of scaremongering from the WAFC.
The Adelaide clubs are rolling in profit with the new Adelaide Oval stadium aren't they?