ALTERNATIVE SITE FOR WEMBLEY AND HIGHBURY
Surely we fans deserve the best of stadiums
for the best of teams, at the best of sites. The AFC directors
should consider the site of the Bishopsgate Goodsyard, which is
probably the best site for a stadium in England, consisting of
10 acres of railway arches.
AFC fans can share their new home with the new
national stadium and be at the hub of London's railway networks
with three integrated railway stations and a further three stations
within 10 minutes walk.
The East London line will run directly from
Highbury into the new Bishopsgate station onsite.
AFC shareholders do not have to underwrite what
is seen as a speculative property deal dressed up in football
kit. Shareholders can share the costs with others such as European,
central and local government, the GLA, FA, AAA, Sports Council,
Olympic and lottery funding.
With over 10 acres of brick arches, clearance
and groundwork costs can be minimised and construction time speeded
up.
The Bishopsgate site has few residents and businesses,
some of which can return to the site after completion of building
works.
The Ashburton Grove site can be for new housing
to benefit the local community who has tolerated the AFC for years.
Anyone who has tried to travel through the area on match days
are fellow sufferers.
AFC Directors have a duty to exercise economic
and common sense, logic, intelligence, wisdom, belief, passion,
vision and imagination and choose Bishopsgate as the new home
for AFC and the National Stadium.
HRH the Prince of Wales wishes to preserve and
build on the Bishopsgate site as a matter of National Interest.
For Bishopsgate related links go to:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/html/news/top-direct-london.html
and search for Bishopsgate Goodsyard see pages 7, 11 and 78 Evening
Standard dated 29 April 2002.
For details of a National Stadium built on a
similar inner city in Japan go to:
http://www.takenaka.co.jp/takenaka-e/majorworks-e/export/recreat/70-b.htm
Congratulations on AFC's double success. The
next double whammy is the new AFC and National Stadium!!
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