Updated: A27 reopened ahead of Albion game (From The Argus)

It took 20 mins to drive past at 9:30 this morning, expect longer delays later when Brighton play at the AMEX

Leave a bit earlier?

Go now!

It won't be repaired in time. At 9am this morning there weren't even any workmen there, just cones.
Where have I heard that before?

Is it me or didn't a fair few people predict that building the stadium at Falmer would result in traffic chaos?
Obviously the barrier damage will contribute to the issue but whenever there is an evening match on the A23 / A27 junction grinds to a halt. Personally I'm fed up of a stupid game of football stopping me from getting home on time. As for the morons who have been parking on the grass verges of the A27 - what in the name of all things holy is going on in your brains?
The really sad thing is that in order to get planning, B&HA were only able to poresent a plan with a limited number of parking spaces. Now they are trying to get another one through to add more. Did somebody say SCAM? FIX?, ECONOMICAL WITH THE TRUTH?, DOWNRIGHT DISHONEST?..........
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Wont be a big crowd tonight with all the JCL's staying home then go cos the Wall are in town No one likes us we don't care as they say.

toldsloth wrote:
Is it me or didn't a fair few people predict that building the stadium at Falmer would result in traffic chaos?
Obviously the barrier damage will contribute to the issue but whenever there is an evening match on the A23 / A27 junction grinds to a halt. Personally I'm fed up of a stupid game of football stopping me from getting home on time. As for the morons who have been parking on the grass verges of the A27 - what in the name of all things holy is going on in your brains?
The really sad thing is that in order to get planning, B&HA were only able to poresent a plan with a limited number of parking spaces. Now they are trying to get another one through to add more. Did somebody say SCAM? FIX?, ECONOMICAL WITH THE TRUTH?, DOWNRIGHT DISHONEST?..........

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So when was the last midweek evening game at the Amex then? I'll tell you it was on the 24th October last year. So you have had nearly 4 months of trouble free getting home. Also the parking on the grass verge issue was dealt with weeks ago. You really should keep up. Oh hang we are talking about the "stupid game of football" so why let the facts get in the way of you having a good old rant. I hope you feel better for having one anyway sweetheart

Mart2a wrote:
Wont be a big crowd tonight with all the JCL's staying home then go cos the Wall are in town No one likes us we don't care as they say.

Lots of empty seats at your stadium every match I see. Obviously your own fans don't like you too

Sussex Police and the Highways Agency just showing, once again, how enept they really are!

Yes, it will be a nightmare in Falmer tonight. Roadworks, merging traffic (or at least even trying to get on the A27) from Brighton and the University staff trying to leave all at once! Where is the so-called road plan that came with the stadium?

Katsmith wrote:

Mart2a wrote:
Wont be a big crowd tonight with all the JCL's staying home then go cos the Wall are in town No one likes us we don't care as they say.

Lots of empty seats at your stadium every match I see. Obviously your own fans don't like you too

I aint a Millwall fan lol

Alan G Skinner wrote:
Sussex Police and the Highways Agency just showing, once again, how enept they really are!

Exactly ..however.. Expect morons like AmboGuy, Bladesboy and Maxwells Ghost to leap to the their defence! This is why we have the Police Force, Council and MP's that we do... Jesus Wept..

Mart2a wrote:
Wont be a big crowd tonight with all the JCL's staying home then go cos the Wall are in town No one likes us we don't care as they say.

What's a JCL? Surely there's not a prawn sandwich brigade at Brighton?

What a coincidence, I've just been reading 'The Observer's Book of Pondlife'

Katsmith wrote:

toldsloth wrote: Is it me or didn't a fair few people predict that building the stadium at Falmer would result in traffic chaos? Obviously the barrier damage will contribute to the issue but whenever there is an evening match on the A23 / A27 junction grinds to a halt. Personally I'm fed up of a stupid game of football stopping me from getting home on time. As for the morons who have been parking on the grass verges of the A27 - what in the name of all things holy is going on in your brains? The really sad thing is that in order to get planning, B&HA were only able to poresent a plan with a limited number of parking spaces. Now they are trying to get another one through to add more. Did somebody say SCAM? FIX?, ECONOMICAL WITH THE TRUTH?, DOWNRIGHT DISHONEST?.......... ..

So when was the last midweek evening game at the Amex then? I'll tell you it was on the 24th October last year. So you have had nearly 4 months of trouble free getting home. Also the parking on the grass verge issue was dealt with weeks ago. You really should keep up. Oh hang we are talking about the "stupid game of football" so why let the facts get in the way of you having a good old rant. I hope you feel better for having one anyway sweetheart

If you go on the A27 during the evening rush hour the traffic is bad on the slip road to Falmer EVERY evening and not just when the Albion are playing at home. Also Albion have a limited number of parking spaces so the build up of traffic mentioned above is not all football supporters. Most take the park and ride or by rail. This traffic is the norm. If you have trouble getting home - go the other way!

So Argus
Where are the promised updates on this story?

Bob! wrote:
So Argus
Where are the promised updates on this story?

At the moment there is no update as the carriageway is under repair with no finishing time as yet. When there is more information it will be passed on.

toldsloth wrote:
Is it me or didn't a fair few people predict that building the stadium at Falmer would result in traffic chaos?
Obviously the barrier damage will contribute to the issue but whenever there is an evening match on the A23 / A27 junction grinds to a halt. Personally I'm fed up of a stupid game of football stopping me from getting home on time. As for the morons who have been parking on the grass verges of the A27 - what in the name of all things holy is going on in your brains?
The really sad thing is that in order to get planning, B&HA were only able to poresent a plan with a limited number of parking spaces. Now they are trying to get another one through to add more. Did somebody say SCAM? FIX?, ECONOMICAL WITH THE TRUTH?, DOWNRIGHT DISHONEST?..........

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'getting home on time' is that because mummy has dinner on the table every night at 7pm or just to make sure you don't miss Magic Roundabout?

toldsloth wrote:
Is it me or didn't a fair few people predict that building the stadium at Falmer would result in traffic chaos?
Obviously the barrier damage will contribute to the issue but whenever there is an evening match on the A23 / A27 junction grinds to a halt. Personally I'm fed up of a stupid game of football stopping me from getting home on time. As for the morons who have been parking on the grass verges of the A27 - what in the name of all things holy is going on in your brains?
The really sad thing is that in order to get planning, B&HA were only able to poresent a plan with a limited number of parking spaces. Now they are trying to get another one through to add more. Did somebody say SCAM? FIX?, ECONOMICAL WITH THE TRUTH?, DOWNRIGHT DISHONEST?..........

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Zero in facts, 80% of people that attend use public transport, MORON, hope you are home in time for Emmerdale and your mum has kept you dinner hot!!!

no way 80% use public transport ... you've made that up ! you just need to see all the cars dropping people off as well as all the cars parked in Coldean ... not to mention all the other places, mostly illegal !!

If Roger Le French provided buses direct from Shoreham/Portslade/H
ove ... it would take a huge number of people off the roads and overcrowded railways ..

its back up to two lanes. Not finished but open

Mart2a wrote:
Wont be a big crowd tonight with all the JCL's staying home then go cos the Wall are in town No one likes us we don't care as they say.

Try get a ticket... it's sold out... like every game..

I agree with you Alan Skinner the slip road up to Asda needs widening and lengthening east bound to allow the last of late breakers club to slip in ,cos they cause the thro traffic to stop, the same needs doing outside Sussex uni to the slip road up to falmer. I expect we will get our 8000 seats and no highway improvments will take place so next season the tailbacks will be even longer getting to the Amex.

Ringmer Rich wrote:

Mart2a wrote:
Wont be a big crowd tonight with all the JCL's staying home then go cos the Wall are in town No one likes us we don't care as they say.

Try get a ticket... it's sold out... like every game..

Plenty of tickets available for Millwall's upcoming games........Not intersted?? no me neither

To be fair, I don't think they had much choice about the repairs to the barriers after an accident yesterday, though when I went through just after nine there was no sign of any work being done.
But I would agree that evening matches are unacceptably disruptive, both for road and rail users. There must be a better way of managing this.

rpdutt wrote:
To be fair, I don't think they had much choice about the repairs to the barriers after an accident yesterday, though when I went through just after nine there was no sign of any work being done.
But I would agree that evening matches are unacceptably disruptive, both for road and rail users. There must be a better way of managing this.

As I pointed out to an earlier poster the last evening match at the Amex was on the 24th October last year so can't see how it can be any more "unacceptably disruptive" than the daily queues and regular accidents on that stretch of the road. And trains are over crowded on every working day of the year not just match days.

The trouble is the tailback off the A27 East bound up the slip road to The Drove which nightly blocks the exit from the Lewis Road onto the A27 East bound.
The root cause of the slip road backing up, seems to be the traffic coming down The Drove and crossing on the mini roundabout to get onto the A27 West bound.
When they developed the stadium I couldn't understand why they didn't put a slip road to the West of the Drove onto the A27 removing the need for traffic to cross over the oncoming traffic.
And the traffic lights at the Falmer Stadium/Drove junction don't help with flow up the hill towards Woodingdean either.More often than not I'm sitting stationary on the junction with no opposing traffic.
Can't they be put on just for matches and use Give Way for the other 165 hours of the week.

LET THE TRAIN TAKE THE STRAIN

Katsmith wrote:

rpdutt wrote: To be fair, I don't think they had much choice about the repairs to the barriers after an accident yesterday, though when I went through just after nine there was no sign of any work being done. But I would agree that evening matches are unacceptably disruptive, both for road and rail users. There must be a better way of managing this.

As I pointed out to an earlier poster the last evening match at the Amex was on the 24th October last year so can't see how it can be any more "unacceptably disruptive" than the daily queues and regular accidents on that stretch of the road. And trains are over crowded on every working day of the year not just match days.

I don't care when the last one was. Once is unacceptable. I come down from Haywards Heath and join the A23 at Pyecombe. On match nights it's jammed at 5.15, far worse than normal. Why am I being held up? I'm not going anywhere near the damned place and I have no interest in synchronised falling over. The stupid thing is that it was nowhere near this bad when they played at Withdean, actually on the A23.

This has to be the most ridiculous piece of design. It seems as though they built the place and then thought "Hang on, we've frorgotten something. Oh yes somewhere for people to put their cars. Oh, and a training would be nice"

Who organises this, Kermit the Frog?

Number Six wrote:

Katsmith wrote:

rpdutt wrote: To be fair, I don't think they had much choice about the repairs to the barriers after an accident yesterday, though when I went through just after nine there was no sign of any work being done. But I would agree that evening matches are unacceptably disruptive, both for road and rail users. There must be a better way of managing this.

As I pointed out to an earlier poster the last evening match at the Amex was on the 24th October last year so can't see how it can be any more "unacceptably disruptive" than the daily queues and regular accidents on that stretch of the road. And trains are over crowded on every working day of the year not just match days.

I don't care when the last one was. Once is unacceptable. I come down from Haywards Heath and join the A23 at Pyecombe. On match nights it's jammed at 5.15, far worse than normal. Why am I being held up? I'm not going anywhere near the damned place and I have no interest in synchronised falling over. The stupid thing is that it was nowhere near this bad when they played at Withdean, actually on the A23.

This has to be the most ridiculous piece of design. It seems as though they built the place and then thought "Hang on, we've frorgotten something. Oh yes somewhere for people to put their cars. Oh, and a training would be nice"

Who organises this, Kermit the Frog?

So you're not going to have a whinge about the countless accidents and roadworks that probably disrupt your journey over a period of time. Oh no of course not they have nothing to do with football.

See the centre of the universe is getting more crowded with toldsloth and number six et al all vying for space. Pathetic self centred children. The Albion give joy, and education etc through AITC, to thousands. If this inconveniances a couple of pissants then so be it. See Bentham etc for definitions of utilitarianism.

Katsmith wrote:

Number Six wrote:

Katsmith wrote:

rpdutt wrote: To be fair, I don't think they had much choice about the repairs to the barriers after an accident yesterday, though when I went through just after nine there was no sign of any work being done. But I would agree that evening matches are unacceptably disruptive, both for road and rail users. There must be a better way of managing this.

As I pointed out to an earlier poster the last evening match at the Amex was on the 24th October last year so can't see how it can be any more "unacceptably disruptive" than the daily queues and regular accidents on that stretch of the road. And trains are over crowded on every working day of the year not just match days.

I don't care when the last one was. Once is unacceptable. I come down from Haywards Heath and join the A23 at Pyecombe. On match nights it's jammed at 5.15, far worse than normal. Why am I being held up? I'm not going anywhere near the damned place and I have no interest in synchronised falling over. The stupid thing is that it was nowhere near this bad when they played at Withdean, actually on the A23. This has to be the most ridiculous piece of design. It seems as though they built the place and then thought "Hang on, we've frorgotten something. Oh yes somewhere for people to put their cars. Oh, and a training would be nice" Who organises this, Kermit the Frog?

So you're not going to have a whinge about the countless accidents and roadworks that probably disrupt your journey over a period of time. Oh no of course not they have nothing to do with football.

Do you drive tha same roads as I do? What countless accidents? There are accidents but they're not countless so I don't understand why you would think that. Anyway, the clue is in the name. They're accidents, not the result of appalling bad planning that should have been dealt with at the time. Roadworks are a neccessary thing, even if they are bloody annoying at times. Football hardly qualifies as neccessary

Number Six wrote:

Katsmith wrote:

Number Six wrote:

Katsmith wrote:

rpdutt wrote: To be fair, I don't think they had much choice about the repairs to the barriers after an accident yesterday, though when I went through just after nine there was no sign of any work being done. But I would agree that evening matches are unacceptably disruptive, both for road and rail users. There must be a better way of managing this.

As I pointed out to an earlier poster the last evening match at the Amex was on the 24th October last year so can't see how it can be any more "unacceptably disruptive" than the daily queues and regular accidents on that stretch of the road. And trains are over crowded on every working day of the year not just match days.

I don't care when the last one was. Once is unacceptable. I come down from Haywards Heath and join the A23 at Pyecombe. On match nights it's jammed at 5.15, far worse than normal. Why am I being held up? I'm not going anywhere near the damned place and I have no interest in synchronised falling over. The stupid thing is that it was nowhere near this bad when they played at Withdean, actually on the A23. This has to be the most ridiculous piece of design. It seems as though they built the place and then thought "Hang on, we've frorgotten something. Oh yes somewhere for people to put their cars. Oh, and a training would be nice" Who organises this, Kermit the Frog?

So you're not going to have a whinge about the countless accidents and roadworks that probably disrupt your journey over a period of time. Oh no of course not they have nothing to do with football.

Do you drive tha same roads as I do? What countless accidents? There are accidents but they're not countless so I don't understand why you would think that. Anyway, the clue is in the name. They're accidents, not the result of appalling bad planning that should have been dealt with at the time. Roadworks are a neccessary thing, even if they are bloody annoying at times. Football hardly qualifies as neccessary

Why don't you build a monorail from work to home? Then you wouldn't have to put up with us mere mortals.

aat99 wrote:
no way 80% use public transport ... you've made that up ! you just need to see all the cars dropping people off as well as all the cars parked in Coldean ... not to mention all the other places, mostly illegal !! If Roger Le French provided buses direct from Shoreham/Portslade/H ove ... it would take a huge number of people off the roads and overcrowded railways ..

We seem to have moved away from the original article and aat99 wrote about supporters cars parked in Coldean. I live in Coldean and yes supporters park in my road and I cant park outside my house when I get home. So what! I park where I can and move the car tomorrow. And, I am not an Albion supporter and the traffic on the road to the stadium in moving pretty good at the moment.

jarmonesque wrote:
See the centre of the universe is getting more crowded with toldsloth and number six et al all vying for space. Pathetic self centred children. The Albion give joy, and education etc through AITC, to thousands. If this inconveniances a couple of pissants then so be it. See Bentham etc for definitions of utilitarianism.

There isn't any room in the centre of the universe. Football hogged that a long time ago. Woe betide those of us who dare to oppose the holy god of football. We just get the usual intellectual sterility of "lump it" "shut up" "if you don't like it then move" or just plain old fashioned ad hominems and insult.

I love the irony of your use of the word "education" in a football discussion since most footballers seem unable to string a coherent sentence together

rolivan wrote:

Number Six wrote:

Katsmith wrote:

Number Six wrote:

Katsmith wrote:

rpdutt wrote: To be fair, I don't think they had much choice about the repairs to the barriers after an accident yesterday, though when I went through just after nine there was no sign of any work being done. But I would agree that evening matches are unacceptably disruptive, both for road and rail users. There must be a better way of managing this.

As I pointed out to an earlier poster the last evening match at the Amex was on the 24th October last year so can't see how it can be any more "unacceptably disruptive" than the daily queues and regular accidents on that stretch of the road. And trains are over crowded on every working day of the year not just match days.

I don't care when the last one was. Once is unacceptable. I come down from Haywards Heath and join the A23 at Pyecombe. On match nights it's jammed at 5.15, far worse than normal. Why am I being held up? I'm not going anywhere near the damned place and I have no interest in synchronised falling over. The stupid thing is that it was nowhere near this bad when they played at Withdean, actually on the A23. This has to be the most ridiculous piece of design. It seems as though they built the place and then thought "Hang on, we've frorgotten something. Oh yes somewhere for people to put their cars. Oh, and a training would be nice" Who organises this, Kermit the Frog?

So you're not going to have a whinge about the countless accidents and roadworks that probably disrupt your journey over a period of time. Oh no of course not they have nothing to do with football.

Do you drive tha same roads as I do? What countless accidents? There are accidents but they're not countless so I don't understand why you would think that. Anyway, the clue is in the name. They're accidents, not the result of appalling bad planning that should have been dealt with at the time. Roadworks are a neccessary thing, even if they are bloody annoying at times. Football hardly qualifies as neccessary

Why don't you build a monorail from work to home? Then you wouldn't have to put up with us mere mortals.

Oh and whilst you want to mention Accidents they are mostly caused by someones carelessness.

rolivan wrote:

rolivan wrote:

Number Six wrote:

Katsmith wrote:

Number Six wrote:

Katsmith wrote:

rpdutt wrote: To be fair, I don't think they had much choice about the repairs to the barriers after an accident yesterday, though when I went through just after nine there was no sign of any work being done. But I would agree that evening matches are unacceptably disruptive, both for road and rail users. There must be a better way of managing this.

As I pointed out to an earlier poster the last evening match at the Amex was on the 24th October last year so can't see how it can be any more "unacceptably disruptive" than the daily queues and regular accidents on that stretch of the road. And trains are over crowded on every working day of the year not just match days.

I don't care when the last one was. Once is unacceptable. I come down from Haywards Heath and join the A23 at Pyecombe. On match nights it's jammed at 5.15, far worse than normal. Why am I being held up? I'm not going anywhere near the damned place and I have no interest in synchronised falling over. The stupid thing is that it was nowhere near this bad when they played at Withdean, actually on the A23. This has to be the most ridiculous piece of design. It seems as though they built the place and then thought "Hang on, we've frorgotten something. Oh yes somewhere for people to put their cars. Oh, and a training would be nice" Who organises this, Kermit the Frog?

So you're not going to have a whinge about the countless accidents and roadworks that probably disrupt your journey over a period of time. Oh no of course not they have nothing to do with football.

Do you drive tha same roads as I do? What countless accidents? There are accidents but they're not countless so I don't understand why you would think that. Anyway, the clue is in the name. They're accidents, not the result of appalling bad planning that should have been dealt with at the time. Roadworks are a neccessary thing, even if they are bloody annoying at times. Football hardly qualifies as neccessary

Why don't you build a monorail from work to home? Then you wouldn't have to put up with us mere mortals.

Oh and whilst you want to mention Accidents they are mostly caused by someones carelessness.

Err.. that's why they are called accidents. What's that got to do with football?

kopite_rob wrote:
The trouble is the tailback off the A27 East bound up the slip road to The Drove which nightly blocks the exit from the Lewis Road onto the A27 East bound.
The root cause of the slip road backing up, seems to be the traffic coming down The Drove and crossing on the mini roundabout to get onto the A27 West bound.
When they developed the stadium I couldn't understand why they didn't put a slip road to the West of the Drove onto the A27 removing the need for traffic to cross over the oncoming traffic.
And the traffic lights at the Falmer Stadium/Drove junction don't help with flow up the hill towards Woodingdean either.More often than not I'm sitting stationary on the junction with no opposing traffic.
Can't they be put on just for matches and use Give Way for the other 165 hours of the week.

Hit the nail on the head there - if it wasn't for the ridiculous design of the Falmer junction the Amex could easily cope with all the traffic. When I used to go that way home from work I'm amazed my car never got written off while I was waiting on the slip road, watching last-minute Larries trying to dive into tiny gaps in the queue, or that there was never an accident caused by people coming round the completely blind corner eastbound and suddenly having to slam on the brakes when confronted by a line of stationary traffic which tails all the way up to the roundabout at the end of The Drove.

Whoever designed this junction must have accidentally turned the piece of paper upside down at some point and not noticed, and whoever then said "Yes, this is clearly how it should be" is obviously an idiot. The whole thing could be solved by about 30 metres' worth of slip roads allowing people to join the A27 from The Drove/Lewes Road in the direction they actually want to go in rather than having to go through the junction to turn round.

Number Six wrote:

rolivan wrote:

rolivan wrote:

Number Six wrote:

Katsmith wrote:

Number Six wrote:

Katsmith wrote:

rpdutt wrote: To be fair, I don't think they had much choice about the repairs to the barriers after an accident yesterday, though when I went through just after nine there was no sign of any work being done. But I would agree that evening matches are unacceptably disruptive, both for road and rail users. There must be a better way of managing this.

As I pointed out to an earlier poster the last evening match at the Amex was on the 24th October last year so can't see how it can be any more "unacceptably disruptive" than the daily queues and regular accidents on that stretch of the road. And trains are over crowded on every working day of the year not just match days.

I don't care when the last one was. Once is unacceptable. I come down from Haywards Heath and join the A23 at Pyecombe. On match nights it's jammed at 5.15, far worse than normal. Why am I being held up? I'm not going anywhere near the damned place and I have no interest in synchronised falling over. The stupid thing is that it was nowhere near this bad when they played at Withdean, actually on the A23. This has to be the most ridiculous piece of design. It seems as though they built the place and then thought "Hang on, we've frorgotten something. Oh yes somewhere for people to put their cars. Oh, and a training would be nice" Who organises this, Kermit the Frog?

So you're not going to have a whinge about the countless accidents and roadworks that probably disrupt your journey over a period of time. Oh no of course not they have nothing to do with football.

Do you drive tha same roads as I do? What countless accidents? There are accidents but they're not countless so I don't understand why you would think that. Anyway, the clue is in the name. They're accidents, not the result of appalling bad planning that should have been dealt with at the time. Roadworks are a neccessary thing, even if they are bloody annoying at times. Football hardly qualifies as neccessary

Why don't you build a monorail from work to home? Then you wouldn't have to put up with us mere mortals.

Oh and whilst you want to mention Accidents they are mostly caused by someones carelessness.

Err.. that's why they are called accidents. What's that got to do with football?

They're accidents, not the result of appalling bad planning that should have been dealt with at the time.Your comment I believe.

Sorry, it's been a long day. What have accidents got to do with a discussion about football?

Number Six wrote:
Sorry, it's been a long day. What have accidents got to do with a discussion about football?

Do you drive tha same roads as I do? What countless accidents? There are accidents but they're not countless so I don't understand why you would think that. Anyway, the clue is in the name. They're accidents, not the result of appalling bad planning that should have been dealt with at the time
COLLISIONS WITH VEHICLES ARE MOSTLY CAUSED BY CARELESSNESS SO THEY ARE NOT ACCIDENTAL THEY CAN BE AVOIDED.
DRIVING WITHOUT DUE CARE AND ATTENTION COMES TO MIND.

Even it what you say is true, and you would have to back up your claim of "mostly", the connection with footbal is tenuous, to say the least.

One final point. If I have an accident, or beakdown, causing traffic chaos I very much regret having inconvenienced other people. I don't behave as though it's hard luck and they will just have to lump it.

Anyway, I'm sorry. I fear I have delayed you catching the kick off. Enjoy your gane

Your caps lock is stuck btw

jarmonesque wrote:
See the centre of the universe is getting more crowded with toldsloth and number six et al all vying for space. Pathetic self centred children. The Albion give joy, and education etc through AITC, to thousands. If this inconveniances a couple of pissants then so be it. See Bentham etc for definitions of utilitarianism.

Does the stadium pay for the education courses, I thought in the past they got funding from else where. Although much funding has dried up?

J Noble Daggett wrote:

Alan G Skinner wrote:
Sussex Police and the Highways Agency just showing, once again, how enept they really are!

Exactly ..however.. Expect morons like AmboGuy, Bladesboy and Maxwells Ghost to leap to the their defence! This is why we have the Police Force, Council and MP's that we do... Jesus Wept..

Possibly a little harsh, however understanding the source its easy to understand how someone so mentally and intellectually challenged might find themselves stumbling out such a statement.

Keep up the great work Nobby

Some unfortunate person has an accident, let's blame the football, and the cow jumped over the moon!

I have had an absolute hoot reading all the responses to my rant! Fantastic the level of venom that comes to the fore when dealing with B&HA fans - many of you have shown yourselves in a true light! I will however refrain from stooping to level of "Eastbourner" and personally insulting anybody :-)

I still maintain that the siting of the ground was a fix and there is no way on God's green earth that a proper (I mean not fixed or economical with the truth) transport assesment was done.

Anyway, enjoy your lunch everybody!

Pride, London to Brighton, Brightons half marathon, Warm summer days, Christmas shoppers....

Just a few things that's cause traffic in and around the city! Apart from popping to the beach on a warm summers day I have no interest in any of the other 'activities'. Because I live in Brighton I am fully aware of these things go on so learn to live with it.

Football/BHA and the Amex has been a fantasic boost for the economy. Granted there is an increase to traffic flows and when the stadium first opened there was teething problems. Those problems are getting ironed out. Now the traffic is not much worse than before the stadium was built. It might take an extra 5-10 minutes for your journey once every few months but for your 'sacrifice' several hunderd (maybe upto/over 1000?) have jobs. This includes the money the club spends on training unqualified staff! Add to that the people who have enrolled on courses with AITC at the stadium (myself included).

On a social side of things, I coach a local football team. Many of the lads (under 14) attend matches. Before the Amex was built these lads would've likely been 'hanging out' in the street getting on residents nerves as there is nothing else for them to do.

Number Six wrote:
Even it what you say is true, and you would have to back up your claim of "mostly", the connection with footbal is tenuous, to say the least.

One final point. If I have an accident, or beakdown, causing traffic chaos I very much regret having inconvenienced other people. I don't behave as though it's hard luck and they will just have to lump it.

Anyway, I'm sorry. I fear I have delayed you catching the kick off. Enjoy your gane

Your caps lock is stuck btw

I sincerely hope you don't have a "beakdown", Number Six.

And I, for one, did enjoy the "gane" of "footbal". Thanks.

BTW, If Rolivan's caps lock is broken, then so is your spellcheck.