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Leave them in place, and just do it with cones and temporary metal railings. It already happens anyway, that inside lane after a game turns into a walkway, this would just be making it a bit safer.

Aside ... I get why it was done after the terror attack in London - but putting those huge concrete bollards on bridges all over the country was, IMO, a total over-reaction to one incident.

To be clear, I do not mean these barriers:

I mean the huge lumps of concrete you see in lots of places.

Anyway, I digress ....

As I say, it might be some other solution can be found, but there's a lot of this sort of stuff being confidently bandied around by folk who have not the slightest clue what they're talking about.

Not aiming this at you, Jimbo. You might work in transport planning / highways (or similar) - in which case well placed to comment. The (very) brief conversations I've been privy to suggest it's entirely impractical to try to undertake for every home fixture.

I do not. I haven't got a scooby's.

The Chinese would build a bridge in four weeks.

It wasn’t really any of that people had a problem with.

It was councillors being difficult for the sake of being difficult. Wanting electric generators instead of diesel. Wittering about two lime trees. And asking questions that had already been asked and that they had the information for.

I think we can do all the building, but we just won't be allowed to use any of the additional capacity until the crowd flow/river crossing solution is in place.
And that won't be a quick process.

Is that something people do? Personally I wouldn't want to spend hundreds of millions (if I had that money) on something that I can't guarantee is going to be able to open.

Once it's built there's no chance the council stops them from using the extra seats unless it's demonstrably dangerous.

Maybe, but there will absolutely have to be guarantees given by the club in certain areas or they won't get a safety certificate.

If we're doing well enough to need extra capacity, most of the fans will be plastic popups from Londontown. They will just drive up in their SUVs so won't need to cross the Trent.

I usually drive up from South Leics and park on some nimbys street in West Bridgford. I’ve not looked in any detail but not sure I’ll be able to with proposed new parking zones?

Oh shit, I hadn't seen that.

Free park and ride on the tram+bus with a match ticket would be a good thing to do if possible.

£790M is a mind blowing amount of money. For context, that's the same amount it cost to tear down Giants Stadium and build Metlife, the 82,000 seater bowl that hosted the World Cup Final.

At an average of £50 a seat, and pretending that there were no additional costs for things like stewarding and safety, they would need to sell the stadium out for the next 40 Premier League seasons to recoup that cash.

I realise this is very simplistic and doesn't account for things like increased corporate revenues and glorious Champions League campaigns, but if I were a cynic I'd wonder if this was a process designed to justify building a new stadium somewhere else.

My Mum says if you park on Violet Road again she'll slash your tires

I'm sure it would, but, again a fiver-a-pop for, say, 10,000 fans across 19 games of the season is getting on for £1m annually for the club to subsidise - because no way (rightly so) should the tram or bus companies stand that cost.

Also, a sudden influx of cars to the park-and-ride sites is potentially going to require more land for additional spaces. Who's paying for that and the ongoing cost of maintaining it?

Almost as though it's not quite as easy as back-of-a-fag-packet, this transport-planning lark.

For context that was almost 17 years ago.. the new Bills stadium which opens tonight costs 2.2 Billion $

Here the club are ultimately rebuilding 3 stands, and other work around the stadium. So while I agree I thought it was high and don't necessarily disagree with your cynical thinking the cost of building anything is increasing astronomically.

Is that a euphemism?