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What a shame it would be if someone accidentally fell into the car with a massive brick on the way to football.

I certainly couldn't condone such outrageous behaviour.

 

People walking in Midland road towards Queens Road instead of on the path is also encouraged because of the overgrowing trees and bushes - some growing out of the wall and other branches hanging over it. They are never trimmed and force you to the edge of the path or in the road if you don't want your eye taking out.
Edit: After moaning about it for ages after every home game, I have now reported it to the Council

 

If you think that I am racist because I see horrific driving on a daily basis, especially on Shipley Airedale Road, and I tell you that 90% of it is by Asian drivers, I am not going to lose sleep over your perception of it. I say it as it is mate.

 

The simple answer is to close Midland road completely for 30minutes after the match between its junctions of Queens Road and Hamm Strasse including all side roads that enter it along that stretch. If anyone who parks on Midland road objects to this then find somewhere else to park.
The pavements aren’t wide enough to allow 15000 people to get away from the stadium.
For anyone that travels to away games they’ll know it’s very common for surrounding roads to be closed after the game until fans have dispersed

 

Shut the road for 30 minutes, job done. They can have that advice for free.

 

Folk obviously don’t know what a path is.

 

I thought someone would mention that. I saw the incident and there are a couple of problems. 23 times a year those pavement cannot cope with the amount of footfall for a short period of time and the area around the ground is not pedestrian, motor vehicle compatible.
Couple of ways of dealing with the problem. Stop parking on Midland Road on match days from the point where they block the road especially the railway side, it blocks the pavement forcing the bottlenecks on the road. Or from say 15 minutes from the end of a game to 25.minutes after stop the flow of traffic onto Midland Road from Queens Road and Manningham Lane. Only allow vehicles out from that area onto Manningham Lane and Queens Road the problem is never with traffic using the stadium, all the incidents I've seen ( too many over the years) have been exclusively the fault of 'Leeds Road' type drivers. How someone wasn't seriously injured on Saturday is by sheer luck, the fact they motioned to leave the vehicle at various times to ' interact' with the football fans shows a complete disregard for human life. A short term measure would be to station a police vehicle on Midland Road after each match with a police presence on the road. If something isn't done to try remedy this and someone does get hurt then people should be held responsible for the lack of action.

 

That's exactly right Park.

Having 15,000 fans exit a football ground is always going to create a short term challenge in terms of pedestrian congestion. A system could be put into place, but the reality is that 3-4 times a season, we see this sort of thing. And we're not talking about the simple mismanagement of traffic, we're talking about human scum. In any other situation, purposefully driving a vehicle at speed into a crowded area of pedestrians would be regarded an act of terror. It's only a matter of time before someone is very seriously injured or worse.

 

Yeah...'local'. Everyone on here knows exactly what other posters are implying because it's a fact. It's Asian youths racing up and down the streets of this area. Why on earth do people feel it's like walking on egg shells to mention the obvious. Midland road and surrounding areas are predominantly Asian community, thats a fact. Has anyone witnessed any similar incidents where the offenders have been local white youths tearing up and down Midland Road at FT?

 

Just imagine if a group of white guys tried to run down people out side a mosque ,these nutters would be called out for what they are "Racist".

I have seen two of these incidents and the occupants in one of the car's laughing.

Lets stick to the real racist here.

 

No mate. Got a link?

 

Jump in a car, drive on Leeds Road a couple of times and you'll be able to answer the question for yourself.

 

Has anybody reported it to the police?

 

Go on i'll bite. Just say you think, the comment has racist connotations. It'll make you feel better.

 

Same issues were raised years ago via the Supporters Board. Club, Police & Council did nothing then & nothing will happen now. Next time it happens someone will get seriously hurt be it a fan or the driver. Council will then ban parking on Midland Rd. as it will be the fans fault, not the local community.

 

I'll be honest i couldn't give a f**k. I've got used to the way the locals park all around Bradford. Up Toller Lane and past the hospital just park where you want, the middle of the road seems a fairly popular option at the moment.

 

I ran a business for years in BD3 and now work in BD9, I live in BD10 and the horrendous driving in Bradford is a predominantly asian problem. The elders recognise this and do what they can, if they can talk freely about it there is no point in wriggling over inverted commas.

With shared pool cars and ever rising insurance I really don't know what the answer is, so many won't pay for insurance and the loss of a pool car might be less than £100 to each "owner" with the driver nearly always untraceable.