| Topic: | Re:Old Oak Common | |
| Posted by: | Dan Filson | |
| Date/Time: | 26/08/13 22:03:00 |
| The tunnelling for the Channel Tunnel was done in just four years and the operation of trains through it began just another four years on. If the site in the Old Oak Common rail yards was released for development tight away I reckon you could get a new stadium there within 3 years if plans were already prepared. Certainly it is a possibility envisaged in the Mayor of London's vision for the area - a dodgy document if ever there was one. Personally I think it would make selling luxury flats for zillions in the same area more difficult so it may not happen. But it would be lunacy to do so before there was a transport infrastructure to get spectators in and out. The days of spectators walking in just from the mile or so radius around a ground are long gone. When Crossrail and HS2 are built and there's a new station to receive passengers at Old Oak Common station, with some interconnection with Willesden Junction station and the Bakerloo line/Overground lines there and if new bus routes are developed on north-south routs - a double-decker route to supplement the 228 will be possible once the road level is lowered to enable this - then it will be possible. Any idea that large numbers of spectators could arrive by car is unreal as car parking space is acutely expensive in London, unlike in green field sites. Whether QPR will even be in the Championship by then is arguable. |