A Major Contribution to Carbon Footprint for a Football Club

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What is it?
Players flying to matches?
Plastic use, ie bottles etc.

How about fans travelling by car to home matches. Really interested to hear this recently on a FSA zoom call. In the recent F1 Grand Prix in Netherlands most of the fans travelled by bike or green transport. I wonder how we could better address this in Britain and the Riverside.
 
The obvious one is public transport being included in your ticket price. I don't know about the lower leagues but Brighton have offered this and it works well.

Went to Germany a couple of years ago and didn't pay for the tram or metro at all.

The public transport on Teesside is very poor though and probably wouldn't cope.
 
Whatever happened to the proposal for a wind turbine to contribute to electricity supply at the Riverside?
 
Johnny Vincents Motorbike said:
Footballers live many many miles away from where they work - day to day car journeys to the training ground - and then off out to do their own personal business afterwards - again taking their cars with 'em...top end gas guzzlers.
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Yes but it has been calculated that home fans driving to games is by far the biggest impact.
 
Was any progress made on LNER giving discounts to Boro fans for away travel? Don't they, or other train companies, have arrangements with Leeds and/or Newcastle?
 
Public transport in Middlesbrough is laughable. Caught the train on the line from Nunthorpe to town. there wasn't even a board telling you when the train was arriving. Could have been cancelled for all anyone knew. Buses stopped at about 7 o'clock when I was a kid. Don't know if they still do.

If this country was serious about the environment we would be investing in the carrot of proper public transport and getting a stick out to whack people out of their cars and in to busses and trains. But we aren't.
 
I am sure we were the most localised fan base when we were in the premier league. Unfortunately transport infrastructure is terrible. If you think of all the fans and there must be thousands living in places like ingleby barwick theres really no alternative to the car. For me It takes over an hour on the bus and the nearest train station is 40 mins walk. I would love a train station in IB to goto the match and to work.
 
Many years ago Sheffield council used to heavily subsidise their public transport. It was so cheap that everyone used it pennies to travel from one side of the city to the other. They balanced the books by reducing the requirement for car parks. It worked brilliantly and was promptly shut down by a Tory Government.

Since we bought into the lie that private companies are more efficient (because of competition that doesn't exist in service provision) we don't have this sort of joined up thinking, we have poorer services (where they still exist at all) and a cabal of rich and powerful companies with the ears and wallets of politicians under their control.
 
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