Oakwell Lane Post Match - Pedestrianised?

Slightly off topic but anyone know whose responsibility crowd safety is post match? Been saying for years that walking up Oakwell lane post match (road at bottom of car park up to Doncaster Road) is an accident waiting to happen and seems to have got much worse this season for some reason. The parking on there is a shambles and post match you have vehicles trying to get both up and down when there is room for 1 at best, cars pulling off kerbs / grass into the pedestrian flow and last night 2 vans driving really aggressively up the road trying to shift pedestrians when there is no where to go. This in turn leads to confrontations, esp after the rubbish we had all suffered last night.

Easy answer is to shut the road for 30 mins post match but who would advise on that - council, police or BFC? Some point soon there will be a bad accident up there if nothing is done...

 

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Just don't ask the people who coned off the bottom of Queens Road last night, converting Windermere Road from a one-way street to the world's first one-way cul-de-sac

 

The whole traffic management at Oakwell is shocking and it's embarrassing that other much smaller clubs are able to do the job better than us. It's nothing to do with owning the ground either, it's simply either not caring or not being competent. I don't know if that's the club itself or the absolute pile of **** company they pay to manage traffic.

 

It's quite simple really the pavement is for pedestrians and the road is for vehicles if people kept to that there's no problem but instead you get idiots walking up the middle of the road stoping the flow of traffic then trying to damage vehicles if they try to go past them.

 

I don't understand cars wanting to go up and down with when the match has just finished and it's full of pedestrians.

 

The problem with Oakwell Lane is there just isn't enough pavement to go round! For the most part there's only pavement on one side and it is too narrow to accomodate all the foot traffic using it.

 

You can't expect thousands of pedestrians to stick to the pavement coming out of the game, hence why roads get closed off. Vehicle drivers need to be patient if they are in the area at the time of a big event.

 

It's not just Oakwell Lane. - If you expect people to walk up the path on Conisiton Road, Belgrave Road, and Bala street, it would take 30 minutes to get town.

 

worse than ever last night. Some numpty in a white pick up actually mounted the kerb on the way down the hill to try and avoid the numpty trying to force his way up the street forcing pedestrian to quickly move out of his way. About 5 mins after full time. Really needs sorting or there will be an incident soon. Must be a simple solution - could the club action if contacted?

 

wrong, roads are for everyone. And large crowds coming out of events are always going to be walking in the road.

Senior moment is already replied to this! Point still stands though.

 

Why people think it's wise to try and drive up and down there when a Football match with a five figure attendance has just finished I have no idea. I would either avoid the road or drive up it twenty minutes earlier or later.

 

Yeah. It's not brain surgery is it, just let the crowd clear..

 

Cars should be allowed up it but not down. That's the simple solution. But then the simple solution is traffic control on Pontefract road too but they don't do that either

 

I'll email the club later. Doubt it is under their control but something will give soon, either someone being hit or a near miss involving a scrap as people getting very irate last night at the kerb mounter (quite correctly tbh). God I must be getting middle aged........

 

It’s easy roads are for cars ,pavements for people ,sorted

 

That's true until the volume of people exceeds the size of available pavement

 

or the volume of cars exceeds the size of available road.

I'd just got past the white pick up - thinking he will be there a while - then heard him pull onto the pavement

 

Last night was bedlum. A car was trying to get up slowly without hitting someone like a skittle. Then halfway up by the houses on the right before the left bend a big car decided to block the pavement obviously waiting to pick someone up.