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Yeah the bridge is actually awful. But it exists if you dont want to cross the road.
Thing is you add about 10-15 minutes to your trip if you do.
Yeah the bridge is actually awful. But it exists if you dont want to cross the road.
I don't really agree. Personally I think games with 20K+ at ANZ have a pretty good atmosphere and that's with ANZ being a shithouse stadium.
I think a purpose built 80K rectangular stadium with a decent gradient that's more enclosed would be fine for NRL games. It's amazing how much of a difference it makes having a good stadium.
Hopefully with the new stadium we see general NRL crowds so we don't have to worry about so many sub 10K crowds. If we can get most matches having 15K or more than that would be perfectly fine in such a stadium.
I disagree that it wouldn't be filled enough. 1-2 SOO a year and the GF. Plus international matches of league, union and soccer. Hopefully when we have a decent rectangular stadium we might even potentially see finals matches selling out (like bulldogs v parra).
You have to think long term as well. This stadium will be there for decades. If we decide later that we need a bigger one then it's too late.
Personally I hope it's at least 70K.
it is worrying that a 1.8km walk is seen as an insurmountable obstacle by some..
The difference in past planning has a lot more to do with Melbourne being flat & Sydney being hilly.
Walk to the SFS is fine for me, but I don't have kids and I'm in my 30's. For some it's difficult.
Not really, you plan based on your geography. Don't build stadiums at the top of the hill from your main transport hub would have been a sound starting point when planning sporting infrastructure for Sydney city I'd have thought! Maybe if someone in the early 80's was better at their job you'd have a stadium that was easy to get to from central?
A reduction in 10k seating at Allianz may reduce the build costs, but the one thing you neglect is the amount of seating currently dedicated to members. Out of the current 45k seats, only around 28k are available for sale by the venue hirer. The remaining seats are kept for the SCG Trust Members. As such by reducing capacity to 30k or 35k, you would be drastically reducing the seating you a hirer could sell to the general public as I'll bet the Trust won't give up any of its current seats.
Not really, you plan based on your geography. Don't build stadiums at the top of the hill from your main transport hub would have been a sound starting point when planning sporting infrastructure for Sydney city I'd have thought! Maybe if someone in the early 80's was better at their job you'd have a stadium that was easy to get to from central?
If you used the Tibby Cotter "Walkway" in walking from Allianz Stadium to Central you would have to follow more than 1 road. You would have to walk further using that bridge as it is not on the shortest route between Allianz Stadium and Central Railway Station at all. Even the NSW Auditor-General found there was no compelling economic case to build that bridge - http://www.audit.nsw.gov.au/news/albert-tibby-cotter-walkway
That bridge was built where it was almost certainly because they thought they were going to get a stadium on the kippax lake site.
I thought it was there because it was closer to the SCG and the ICC had concerns about fans crossing a major road before the cricket World Cup?
ANZ 1.6M patrons with room for growth
Events Calendar 2017
https://www.anzstadium.com.au/media/450243/2017_eventcalendar.pdf
-9 events in 2017 with crowd in excess of 80k. 3 events in excess of 55k.
-NRL Prelims between 2 Sydney teams to add to the list.
-Socceroos World Cup Qualifier Against Syria and possible USA matchup to be played at ANZ.
Alliance 600-700k patrons
-Roosters moving games away from Stadium, NSW Waratahs crowds decreasing.
NSW Government just spent 200m buying back the rights to ANZ, All signs point to ANZ getting the cash.
From a political standpoint and a Business case, ANZ is a win win for her Government.
That's why it was built, but not necessarily the reason it was built where it was.
I've read suggestions that they wanted to keep it clear of the northern end of the park because they thought they'd get a stadium in that location.
It would've made a lot more sense to have a bridge go from the corner or Fitzroy st into the park & then another bridge over the Anzac parade at the northern end. Barring that block off the the crossover at the northern end & force people to use the tibby cotter.
Just read it actually cost $38 million for that thing. Staggering. Budget blew out $13m. Sydney is insane.
Yeah the cost of that bridge was obscene. Nearly as much as the new Noble/Bradman stands at the SCG.
Anyway, if you walk up Devonshire from Central instead of Foveaux you go straight to it.
From what I can tell though most people walk up Foveaux.
Perhaps at this point they should just block off the other end for major events & push people down to the bridge?
I can think of 3.I presume most of those 9 events were concerts? I can only think of one sporting event so far that's got more than 80k.
I can think of 3.
S.O.O. and the 2 games Arsenal vs ESFC and WSW's.
Yeah looks like 3 it is.
http://www.anzstadium.com.au/footer...017-stadium-aggregate-soaring-past-1-million/