Loirston chosen for new stadium

Aberdeen FC set to move

EXCLUSIVE

By Charlie Allan

 

Published: 03/04/2009

 

THE Evening Express can today reveal the preferred location for Aberdeen’s new community stadium.

 

The £38 million community facility, which will become home to Aberdeen FC, will be at Loirston Loch in the south of the city.

 

It follows a year-long series of feasibility studies to decide if the site at Nigg would be the best location for the stadium.

 

The report on the recommendation of the Nigg site will now go out to consultation and will be referred to the council’s policy and strategy committee on April 28.

 

A number of other potential sites across the city, including one at King’s Links, were examined by Aberdeen City Council and Aberdeen FC and it was decided all of them were unsuitable.

 

Aberdeen FC managing director Duncan Fraser, who is also a member of the Arena Project Advisory and Monitoring Board created to advise of the best site and stadium design, said: “These recommendations have still to be approved and at the appropriate time, there will be a full consultation process with fans.

 

“Their feedback will be important.â€

 

For more on this story, and an exclusive image of the new arena, pick up today’s Evening Express or check back later

With a bit more vision and ambition, AFC could stay at Pittodrie if the powers that be wanted it badly enough.  The opportunity to cash in on the land and drive down the debt is driving this and nothing else.

as has already been said if we did rebuild Pittodrie our attendance would drop to between 10-15,000 added to that we would have to fund the whole thing? if that is showing ambition then i'm glad that they're not

as has already been said if we did rebuild Pittodrie our attendance would drop to between 10-15,000 added to that we would have to fund the whole thing? if that is showing ambition then i'm glad that they're not

I realise all of this, and whilst I am neither for or against a new stadium, I am all for anything that is designed to safeguard the club's future.  What I am against is this idea of the club hiding behind UEFA stadium criteria, stating this is the reason we have to move and an effort to get the fans onside with it.  That is not a reason to move, it is merely one of the (admittedly many) advantages of moving which are primarily financially related.

as has already been said if we did rebuild Pittodrie our attendance would drop to between 10-15,000 added to that we would have to fund the whole thing? if that is showing ambition then i'm glad that they're not

 

Presume you mean "capacity" as our "attendance" is barely averaging 10,000 this season

Capacity of a redeveloped Pittodrie would apparently be 12,000 according to Milne at the AGM.

Capacity of a redeveloped Pittodrie would apparently be 12,000 according to Milne at the AGM.

 

12,000 Stuart Milne houses?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-12134966

 

Police concern for all those people who apparently wont bother to walk there

Ah yes, because al football fans are incapable of behaving like a member of the human race on a match day and traffic sense goes out the window.

 

Of course Wellington road looks like the best way to walk up the road.

 

Fuck off we're not idiots.

No! Take a bus to Portlethen and walk up the A90 surely?

I'll be taking the monorail to games anyway.

I don't know why the club is perpetuating this 'new stadium' lie. 

 

Actually, I do.

 

 

I'll be taking the monorail to games anyway.

 

Well, sir, there's nothing on earth

Like a genuine,

Bona fide,

Electrified,

Six-car

Monorail! ...

I'll be taking the monorail to games anyway.

 

Will that be the Firstbus or Stagecoach monorail?

Well, sir, there's nothing on earth

Like a genuine,

Bona fide,

Electrified,

Six-car

Monorail! ...

 

We'll finally be on the map like Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-12134966

 

Police concern for all those people who apparently wont bother to walk there

 

Anybody think its good of the police to be concerned ?

Fuck walking up Wellington Road.  I'll take the bus.

Fuck walking up Wellington Road.  I'll take the bus.

 

I suspect it's more folk walking back into town after the game.

 

I've never walked to Hampden, Ibrox or Parkhead - but almost every single time i've walked back into the centre of Glasgow.

Fuck walking up Wellington Road.  I'll take the bus.

 

Wellington Road on a Saturday will be more choked than my ex bird in a room full of cock.

 

If yer taking the bus I'd advise bringing board games and a sleeping blanket.... particularly the sleeping blanket, because you never know if my ex bird is going to be on the bus inna.

 

 

Wellington Road isn't anywhere near a bottle neck on a Saturday at the moment.

I'd imagine that roads around the new stadium would be subject to some congestion before and after a match, but that is also the case at Pittodrie is it not?

It doesn't matter, by the time they build it, you will be able to teleport yourself from your home to your favorite seat in the Google @ Loirston Loch MechaStadion.

Anyone seen the traffic chaos on Market Street with folk from the North trying to turn right into Union Square?

 

Good luck getting to the new stadium if yer coming from Brig o Don! 

 

When I lived in BoD and worked in Altens, I always used to go through Ferryhill, cross the bridge by the bottom of the Duthie Park and up the Tullos Ring Road. Rarely took more than half an hour door to door, even when they were digging up Market Street. I think there's a shortcut through Kincorth that takes you out by the police station too. You could probably take a right after the bridge and take the A90 too if you wanted, I did that a couple of times when there was a big queue to turn left. If the white elephant bypass is ever built, there will be that option too.

 

Regarding the bus going up Wellington Road, I'd assume someone somewhere would have some common sense and have a dedicated bus lane somewhere, perhaps going between Kincorth and the stadium, similar to the lane that goes from Lang Stracht to Kingswells Park & Ride for buses only. Would encourage more people to leave the car too.

Anyone seen the traffic chaos on Market Street with folk from the North trying to turn right into Union Square?

 

Good luck getting to the new stadium if yer coming from Brig o Don! 

 

Good early warning. Avoid Market Street

Are folk really discussing how much of a nightmare traffic will be when Pittodrie is currently sitting spitting distance from the city centre? 

Are folk really discussing how much of a nightmare traffic will be when Pittodrie is currently sitting spitting distance from the city centre? 

 

I was reading all that thinking the same thing ST, it is a total fucking whore right now!

 

If I drive to the game it'll be a piece a pish to get home when it's done and (more likely) if I'm on the train I'll no give too much of a fuck, I'll be on the monorail!

Aren't you meant to use the College Street Car Park if you're coming to Union Square from the North?

 

I'm just impressed that they managed to build a shopping centre with both a bus and train station, and yet somehow still make it really difficult to get to.

Why the fuck would anyone go via Market Street from Bridge of Don to the new stadium?  They should be going up Anderson Drive.

 

Jager you're just inventing problems that won't exist.