Midland Road incident

Often walk that way, as we park by the Rose and Crown, you are quite right ,pavements used as car parking , as most of the roads are double yellows. Easy fix, make pavement parking illegal , as other cities have done, then enforce it.

 

The direction of travel would probably tell you if they’d been to the game or not. Most people driving to the match will know that Midland rd is closed past the midland road stand and therefore no exit to Hamm Strasse.
They’d also know it would be chaos trying to drive up behind the Kop straight after the game.
So my guess is they were just ignorant arseholes who didn’t know there was a game on and felt aggrieved at being delayed.
Closing the road is the only sensible option before some determined terrorist gets wind of the opportunity and drives an arctic at full speed through all the fans. Then we’d be all saying ‘told you so’ after the horse has bolted just like any other disaster

 

Well i was there yesterday with my daughter and grandaughter and hearing about this incident, i thought this could of been me. Just another example of lawless Bradford carried out in broad daylight which eventually will have an effect on attendances at matches. Sad to say after 58 seasons.

 

unfortunately the football club and its supporters, is not one of the council's vanity projects and i don't think anything will be done. Its alright though , we are city of culture. Lol Crime culture , drug culture. hand out culture.
Local elections next May , can we have a change of regime, no chance , turkeys do not vote for Christmas.

 

i walk on the road, so in that sense it could have been me but I get out of way of cars as they are on coming and don’t shout and swear at them, so probably reduces the chances.

 

There are two parts of the incident yesterday without which it would not have happened.

1) the knobhead driver
2) the fans on the road

now as a group, fans, we have control of one of the two and very little to no control of the other.

so surely we should manage that part and that would stop it happening again.

yes we can moan and complain about lack of action but it has been going on for years and nothing has been done so I can not see a sudden change in attitude from the club, WYP or council

 

Agreed

 

As previously confirmed, cars are NOT on the pavements on either side of Midland Road. There’s plenty of room for fans to walk on them but sadly the urgency to get home for tea causes impatience and thus walking on the roads.

 

They do mount on the side where the recycling plant is. Not on the other side though, no.

 

Well said!

It is no surprise that the person you are replying to is of that mindset.

 

"Keefly" is the same place m8, it's just you lot can't spell.

 

It's easy. Organise a sit down across Midland road after the game till it clears.
If the useless powers that be will not act too protect the fans then the fans must protect themselves

 

I've ambled down Midland Road many a time after a game and seen aggressive drivers getting irate with people in the road blocking their progress. When you get down to the junction with Queens road you simply amble past them while they're left in the traffic light queue for another 2 or 3 cycles. There's just no need for it. It's a shame they're not intelligent enough to work it out for themselves.

 

Midland road after the game is very dangerous
Taxi drivers use it as a short cut instead of going up to Queens road lights
Our fans are no better leaving the game also
When Leeds are at Home all roads around the ground are closed till spectator's are clear of the area
The police stop traffic to let football cars out into main stream traffic NOT at Valley Parade if they wasa police officer directing traffic at Queen's Road lights and Ham strasse for 20 mins after the game there would be Very little problem
This has been the same for many years & will continue until someone is killed
None of BCFC the Police Or Bradford council are willing to get together and resolve it

 

Ah ok, I don’t walk that way. I doubt there would have been many fans on that end of Midland Rd after the game yesterday.

 

that is basically what we do now walking down the road. If everyone sat down till it cleared when they got up it wouldn’t be clear so would have to sit agaib

 

Isnt there CCTV on the road or at the traffic lights at the end.