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**diseeKeythilt** · 01-29-2011, 09:32 PM

Hang on you are knocking down Belmont race course as a location but saying Burswood is the way to go! It's basiacally on the same patch of land with the same location aspects you say are a problem? Burswood is on the Swan River with Great Eastern Hwy running past it. In fact Belmont Park was built long before Burswood which use to be a tip. Don't you think they built up Burswood with yellow sand before they built it or do you just think the foundations were good as gold?

As for Colin Barnett i don't know what more he has to do, the bloke is a straight shooter not like that roll over merchant Eric Ripper. Now there is a kill joy if ever there was one. Opposes something he once agreed to just because he's now in opposition and doesn't want the other side to be the ones who GOT IT DONE!

Anyway this isn't about a political argument, it's about getting a world class stadium built at a location that is right and isn't going to be outdated 10 or 20 years down the track. I'll ask you a question, have you ever driven down the back blocks of Belmont Park race course in Rivervale? It's a shit hole full of old industrial factory units that are overdue to be knocked down and the residential buildings around there are no better. I'm quite sure if the govt had to pay out residents to relocate in Subiaco they can do the same over there.

Also the govt recently announced it was going to rebuild Great Eastern hwy from the domestic airport to Burswood as it is the pathway for visitors to this city so that will be much improved and the Polly Farmer is right alongside it which gives access to the Mitchell and Kwinana Freeways and there is Orrong Road and GT Eastern Hwy running east and north and Canning hwy running south also. I can't think of a better location.

I haven't been to Melbourne but with all the stadiums built within cooeee of one another and in a short walk to the railway stations and trams i imagine there is a lot of people converging in the one direction yet people commonly say on these forums and i've been told by people who have been to the MCG and Etihad Stadium that the whole ground is cleared within 20 minutes.

Belmont Park has the Polly farmer running Nth to Sth thats it plus the railway, Burwood site would have railway, Great Eastern hwy, Farmer, Causeway, Canning, and Albany Hwy as exits, plenty of options how are you going to disperse 60 to 80 thousand people at the Belmont site with basically two exits, i remember i went to a Camping and caravan show at Belmont park and that was a nigtmare with only a few thousand people there, where are the multiple exits to clear the people and the traffic, everyone will converge to the Polly Farmer Fwy and it will become gridlocked.

As for CB what has he done re: the stadium, all he 's done is said i would like the stadium at Belmont pk its not set in concrete its his opinion, because he knows he doesn't have to act on it for another 2 years, but he has fooled people into thinking that something is going to happen.

01-29-2011, 09:32 PM	#4
diseeKeythilt Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 497 Senior Member	Hang on you are knocking down Belmont race course as a location but saying Burswood is the way to go! It's basiacally on the same patch of land with the same location aspects you say are a problem? Burswood is on the Swan River with Great Eastern Hwy running past it. In fact Belmont Park was built long before Burswood which use to be a tip. Don't you think they built up Burswood with yellow sand before they built it or do you just think the foundations were good as gold? As for Colin Barnett i don't know what more he has to do, the bloke is a straight shooter not like that roll over merchant Eric Ripper. Now there is a kill joy if ever there was one. Opposes something he once agreed to just because he's now in opposition and doesn't want the other side to be the ones who GOT IT DONE! Anyway this isn't about a political argument, it's about getting a world class stadium built at a location that is right and isn't going to be outdated 10 or 20 years down the track. I'll ask you a question, have you ever driven down the back blocks of Belmont Park race course in Rivervale? It's a shit hole full of old industrial factory units that are overdue to be knocked down and the residential buildings around there are no better. I'm quite sure if the govt had to pay out residents to relocate in Subiaco they can do the same over there. Also the govt recently announced it was going to rebuild Great Eastern hwy from the domestic airport to Burswood as it is the pathway for visitors to this city so that will be much improved and the Polly Farmer is right alongside it which gives access to the Mitchell and Kwinana Freeways and there is Orrong Road and GT Eastern Hwy running east and north and Canning hwy running south also. I can't think of a better location. I haven't been to Melbourne but with all the stadiums built within cooeee of one another and in a short walk to the railway stations and trams i imagine there is a lot of people converging in the one direction yet people commonly say on these forums and i've been told by people who have been to the MCG and Etihad Stadium that the whole ground is cleared within 20 minutes. Belmont Park has the Polly farmer running Nth to Sth thats it plus the railway, Burwood site would have railway, Great Eastern hwy, Farmer, Causeway, Canning, and Albany Hwy as exits, plenty of options how are you going to disperse 60 to 80 thousand people at the Belmont site with basically two exits, i remember i went to a Camping and caravan show at Belmont park and that was a nigtmare with only a few thousand people there, where are the multiple exits to clear the people and the traffic, everyone will converge to the Polly Farmer Fwy and it will become gridlocked. As for CB what has he done re: the stadium, all he 's done is said i would like the stadium at Belmont pk its not set in concrete its his opinion, because he knows he doesn't have to act on it for another 2 years, but he has fooled people into thinking that something is going to happen.
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