Training ground

LewSwimmin said:
This is a really good point.

Given that the new stadium will be closer to Pokesdown station than the existing one, with some joined up thinking and co-operation from a number of interested organisations there is a great opportunity to upgrade both its services and its facilities which are in desparate need of a substantial modernisation and improvement. It is scandalous that nearly 30 years after the Disability and Discrimination Act was passed it still doesn't have passenger lifts serving its platforms despite them having long been promised by many parties without ever actually materialising.

Pokesdown station is much better located to serve thousands of homes in Boscombe, Pokesdown, Southbourne and Boscombe East than the Central Station and requiring the train operating companies to stop all trains there would be a massive boost to both its usage and the convenience of residents of those areas, as well as making it a much more viable form of transport for both out of area home fans and visiting ones on match days. Given that journey times to and from Bournemouth are already painfully slow, another five minutes added to every journey would be a small price to pay for the increase in convenience to thousands of rail users in the locality.

The Football Club could be required to make a contribution to this as part of the Stadium Planning Approval, and the monies allocated to the Council last year by the Government would be much better spent on this project rather than needlessly demolishing the Sovereign Centre as has been mooted.
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I have long been advocating that the club should spend (a relatively small compared to player costs) amount of money on paying to build a halt where the old Boscombe train station stood. It would be barely a couple of hundred yards from where the new ground is proposed and would also have a positive impact on Boscombe as a whole. Sadly access to the south side of the line has now gone to the world's largest Travis Perkins but as you say Lew this should form part of the new stadium planning application.
 
@borisatha ... Electric vehicles as we know now will probably not last as the mainstay in car evolution... BMW have already got an X5 EV based on hydrogen... Not due to be released until the latter part of this decade and depends on demand and need, BUT this is a big step in the right direction... Charging EV's currently is just not sustainable and the infrastructure is way too slow in it's progress... probably because the powers appreciate they just need to do enough to get us to a point when hydrogen can be the preferred way forward, with an infrastructure (fuel stations) that is already in place...
 
LewSwimmin said:
This is a really good point.

Given that the new stadium will be closer to Pokesdown station than the existing one, with some joined up thinking and co-operation from a number of interested organisations there is a great opportunity to upgrade both its services and its facilities which are in desparate need of a substantial modernisation and improvement. It is scandalous that nearly 30 years after the Disability and Discrimination Act was passed it still doesn't have passenger lifts serving its platforms despite them having long been promised by many parties without ever actually materialising.

Pokesdown station is much better located to serve thousands of homes in Boscombe, Pokesdown, Southbourne and Boscombe East than the Central Station and requiring the train operating companies to stop all trains there would be a massive boost to both its usage and the convenience of residents of those areas, as well as making it a much more viable form of transport for both out of area home fans and visiting ones on match days. Given that journey times to and from Bournemouth are already painfully slow, another five minutes added to every journey would be a small price to pay for the increase in convenience to thousands of rail users in the locality.

The Football Club could be required to make a contribution to this as part of the Stadium Planning Approval, and the monies allocated to the Council last year by the Government would be much better spent on this project rather than needlessly demolishing the Sovereign Centre as has been mooted.
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Finally we might be getting near news of a refurb. Over 10 years since starting. This is despite of rail companies reneging on contractual commitments, government slashing funding for accessibility etc.
 
SteveJonesLegend said:
@borisatha ... Electric vehicles as we know now will probably not last as the mainstay in car evolution... BMW have already got an X5 EV based on hydrogen... Not due to be released until the latter part of this decade and depends on demand and need, BUT this is a big step in the right direction... Charging EV's currently is just not sustainable and the infrastructure is way too slow in it's progress... probably because the powers appreciate they just need to do enough to get us to a point when hydrogen can be the preferred way forward, with an infrastructure (fuel stations) that is already in place...
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Yes I was going to post about that the other day.

The email alludes to BMW focusing more on hydrogen route to ev path, going forwards. Think its released on roads later this year in small numbers for 'practical testing' phase.

Doesn't surprise me at all. Been over the ev thing many times, and it's not practical for too many people, plus other things around the infrastructure.
 
SteveJonesLegend said:
@borisatha ... Electric vehicles as we know now will probably not last as the mainstay in car evolution... BMW have already got an X5 EV based on hydrogen... Not due to be released until the latter part of this decade and depends on demand and need, BUT this is a big step in the right direction... Charging EV's currently is just not sustainable and the infrastructure is way too slow in it's progress... probably because the powers appreciate they just need to do enough to get us to a point when hydrogen can be the preferred way forward, with an infrastructure (fuel stations) that is already in place...
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So are we all ready for the government's and oil companies to charge us £120 to fill up our family cars with Hydrogen in the next couple of decades?
 
MB1980 said:
Yes I was going to post about that the other day.

The email alludes to BMW focusing more on hydrogen route to ev path, going forwards. Think its released on roads later this year in small numbers for 'practical testing' phase.

Doesn't surprise me at all. Been over the ev thing many times, and it's not practical for too many people, plus other things around the infrastructure.
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Sod it, lets go full tangent.

Hydrogen infrastructure doesn't exist, it needs to be compressed to be stored and transported which is hugely uneconomical. You can't use the existing gas network to transport it without modification and tankering it about isn't financially viable either.

The cars are currently 40% more expensive than petrol, compared to 10% for EVs.

Overall energy efficiency from production to wheel is lower for hydrogen compared to electricity used in EVs meaning they'll be much more expensive to run.

I can't really see the costs around HFCVs ever becoming a viable alternative economically. Possibly just a very expensive fringe solution unless we can convert our entire gas network.

The average EV can now comfortably do more than 150 miles on a single charge, 200 for new models. As linked bellow a single charge fortnightly would comfortably suit over 95% of the population.
www.fleetnews.co.uk

Less than 5% of vehicles are driven over 15,000 miles a year

The vast majority of UK drivers travel fewer than 15,000 miles per year by car, according to new analysis of MOT test data.
www.fleetnews.co.uk www.fleetnews.co.uk
 
Kudos said:
Sod it, lets go full tangent.

Hydrogen infrastructure doesn't exist, it needs to be compressed to be stored and transported which is hugely uneconomical. You can't use the existing gas network to transport it without modification and tankering it about isn't financially viable either.

The cars are currently 40% more expensive than petrol, compared to 10% for EVs.

Overall energy efficiency from production to wheel is lower for hydrogen compared to electricity used in EVs meaning they'll be much more expensive to run.

I can't really see the costs around HFCVs ever becoming a viable alternative economically. Possibly just a very expensive fringe solution unless we can convert our entire gas network.

The average EV can now comfortably do more than 150 miles on a single charge, 200 for new models. As linked bellow a single charge fortnightly would comfortably suit over 95% of the population.
www.fleetnews.co.uk

Less than 5% of vehicles are driven over 15,000 miles a year

The vast majority of UK drivers travel fewer than 15,000 miles per year by car, according to new analysis of MOT test data.
www.fleetnews.co.uk www.fleetnews.co.uk
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Toyota might well be moving the goalposts on electric vehicles very soon, as they claim to have found a process to successfully mass-produce Solid State Batteries suitable for vehicle use. Much less weight involved (due to less cooling components required), much greater capacity, quicker charging, and a whole lot safer. The car (manufacturer) in front is Toyota.
 
Hoof_It said:
Singapore have started trialling Battery swap stations. Drive in and the battery is automatically swapped for a fully charged one. Quicker than waiting for a recharge, greener than Petrol/diesel.
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I always wondered why this wasn't the norm everywhere. Glad at least someone's doing it.
 
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