Auckland stadiums - Eden Park, Western Springs etc
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not tried to get from bus station. I based my assertion on @Kirwan saying it was easy as to get there during RWC 2011 having previously seemed to think Albany was somewhere north of Wellsford. I just mapped it and it's 1.17 km so 15 minute walk? So about the same as the walk from Twickenham Station to the ground.
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@dogmeat said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
not tried to get from bus station. I based my assertion on @Kirwan saying it was easy as to get there during RWC 2011 having previously seemed to think Albany was somewhere north of Wellsford. I just mapped it and it's 1.17 km so 15 minute walk? So about the same as the walk from Twickenham Station to the ground.
Confused, the Albany dig directed at me? I grew up by Glenfield and later Whangarei, so kinda know where Albany (and Wellsford, mores the pity) is.
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@dogmeat said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
Crap option IMO. it's not large like Hagley Park. it's surrounded by major arterials, which would make transport options difficult and it's the only largeish green space in the CBD
It would still leave about a rugby field sized green space outside any 'stadium' (for either continued use as club sport or whatever) if they developed Victoria Park into a test cricket ground.
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@Kirwan said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@dogmeat said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
not tried to get from bus station. I based my assertion on @Kirwan saying it was easy as to get there during RWC 2011 having previously seemed to think Albany was somewhere north of Wellsford. I just mapped it and it's 1.17 km so 15 minute walk? So about the same as the walk from Twickenham Station to the ground.
Confused, the Albany dig directed at me? I grew up by Glenfield and later Whangarei, so kinda know where Albany (and Wellsford, mores the pity) is.
So why aren't you supporting the (not so) mighty Harbour?
Wasn't really intended as a dig. I remember you thinking Albany would be a ball ache to get to and later saying it was a breeze, so I used you as an ikon for the widely held view that getting to North Harbour Stadium is akin to early 20th century attempts to reach the South Pole
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@dogmeat said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
Vic Park isn't just for sports though. It's for dog walkers and kids to run around on. picnickers etc. As such it's really the only site of its type in the CBD.
I don't see why it still wouldn't be. A football field's worth of leftover park, plus the treed fringe, is still an enormous amount of green space on the cbd fringe.
It would be a ballache for the two amateur codes clubs who use multiple playing fields on that Park on a Saturday. And would need to relocate a lot of their activities to other parks, if not the clubhouse altogether. But for the informal stuff like walking, running, boot camps, dogs, picnics etc, I'd see that being an easy coexistence.
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@dogmeat said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@Kirwan said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
@dogmeat said in Quay Park stadium for Auckland?:
not tried to get from bus station. I based my assertion on @Kirwan saying it was easy as to get there during RWC 2011 having previously seemed to think Albany was somewhere north of Wellsford. I just mapped it and it's 1.17 km so 15 minute walk? So about the same as the walk from Twickenham Station to the ground.
Confused, the Albany dig directed at me? I grew up by Glenfield and later Whangarei, so kinda know where Albany (and Wellsford, mores the pity) is.
So why aren't you supporting the (not so) mighty Harbour?
Wasn't really intended as a dig. I remember you thinking Albany would be a ball ache to get to and later saying it was a breeze, so I used you as an ikon for the widely held view that getting to North Harbour Stadium is akin to early 20th century attempts to reach the South Pole
Because I started supporting Auckland in 1984 before Harbour existing. Fucking splitters.
I got stuck in a car park after a game in Albany for an hour. It sucked. Eden Park is a breeze in comparison.
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A soccer stadium at Western Springs would work.
I wonder if the first half of the NPC could be moved there too?
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Pretty good summary of the two akl main stadium options with, unsurprisingly, major funding concerns and a lack of substance to Quay Park
Stadium Unfeasibility - Greater Auckland
Tomorrow Auckland’s Councillors will decide on the next steps in the city’s ongoing stadium debate, and it appears one option is technically feasible but isn’t financially feasible while the other one might be financially feasible but not be technically feasible. … Continued
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@Machpants Is that an option?
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@antipodean Which? The slow improvement is status quo, it was mentioned in one article that is the 'do nothing' answer. But how long these immprovements take to be actioned at EP who knows - EP 2.1 can be done in stages.
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@Machpants the sportswashing.
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has to be an option doesnt it, EP's not falling down or anything...we just put up with people complaining abut things that might not even be true anymore
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Wow, so they opted for the half in / half out option .... what a surprise ...
Not been to EP since 2017, but found it reasonably accessible both in and out. Trains were crammed, but nothing new there.
Doesn't look like my dream it being a proper rugby/football stadium with cricket played elsewhere will ever come to fruition though as I assume thats what the retractable seating is all about?
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@MajorRage said in Auckland stadiums - Eden Park, Western Springs etc:
I assume thats what the retractable seating is all about?
The seating at the base of the North stand is at a low gradient. Making it retractable gives back a lot of room.
Personally I'm glad one of Eden Park, Athletic Park, Lancaster Park and Carisbrook will continue to exist. We've lost a lot of history
