A Major Contribution to Carbon Footprint for a Football Club

[JM14]

An effective railway system might be a start, I could travel by train fairly easy to the ground but it takes twice as long as the car, way more expensive, overcrowded, plus unreliable 30 year old trains dont exactly make it appealing. I doubt the trains northern rail are using arent exactly environmentally friendly compared to a modern car either. (Thats just for a Saturday game too, midweek is even more difficult)

A park and ride could be an option? Safe cycle routes with bike storage?

 

[JM14]

I decided to get my season ticket out this year when I realised that I could get the train straight through from Aycliffe. So I get the mrs to drop me off and pick me up from Aycliffe station on a match day. Great, I thought

The train going is normally no problem but coming back...... ffs . A packed platform trying to squeeze into 2 carriages is bad enough in normal circumstances but to be on a packed train whilst there's an ongoing covid risk is ridiculous. It's not as if I have an option either, having committed to the train. There is no other practical way back to Aycliffe from Middlesbrough.

Oh and whilst I say "The train going is normally no problem", the last home game the train was cancelled due to lack of staff, which I only discovered after I'd been sat at the station foe 5 minutes. So I had to get back home and take the car. (and the useless @r$es are still disputing my claim for a refund). This now has me thinking, what would I do if I was at Middlesbrough waiting to come home and the train was cancelled and is it worth the risk of taking the train.

I would always get the train before I could drive, the amount of times the train didnt turn up, was significantly late, too full or broken down was unbelievable. Its really not a very good option

 

[NYboro]

It's not really a case of railway companies refusing to put on extra carriages, they don't have them. They are contracted to provide a certain level of service and that does not include special events, only day-to-day services. So they only have the rolling stock to fulfil that contract. Any more would be additional costs so they aren't interested.

It would help if they didn't cancel so many trains. The last 3 home matches the first train to Darlington after the match has been cancelled. That includes an evening game where the next and last train is not till an hour later. I'm just going from the match to the pub and getting a later train.

 

[Johnny Vincents Motorbike]

How tall is the wind turbine going to be

again, its any excuse and its absolute nonsense to suggest a wind turbine could be a danger to aircraft


there is a wind farm (that looks like a city at night) off the south coast on the flight path for Gatwick - makes not a blimp of a difference to aircraft or to shipping for that matter.

 

[DCI_Gene_Hunt]

Yes but it has been calculated that home fans driving to games is by far the biggest impact.

Any stats to back this up?

 

[Johnny Vincents Motorbike]

Train companies could look at pricing as a way to promote more use of their trains.

or.....we could bring them back into public ownership and use them to the good of the people and the betterment of the environment.

with a price of a ticket that people could afford.

 

[Randy]

or.....we could bring them back into public ownership and use them to the good of the people and the betterment of the environment.

with a price of a ticket that people could afford.

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Exactly.

 

[Jimmy_Salmon]

If think the club/council missed a trick when the ground first opened. A decent, well lit coach park could have been built with direct access to the A66, getting mass transport fans away from the ground a lot earlier than they do now.

Many who used the coaches initially have reverted to cars because of the time it takes to get away from the area and back home.

Agree with this. I still get a supporters bus but I must admit I’m thinking about jacking it in as the time taken to let the buses out from the car park is ridiculous. Previously they would let the supporter buses out right after the away coaches but now they get stuck behind all of the Dockside Road car parks emptying.

 

[sparkins]

Burgers !

(how many are sold at football matches ?)

deforestation for grazing cattle so that some people can have a 'beef-burger'....

660 gallons of water to make a beef burger !

Burgers !

(how many are sold at football matches ?)

deforestation for grazing cattle so that some people can have a 'beef-burger'....

660 gallons of water to make a beef burger !

Around 30% of the beef consumed in the UK is imported. Of that imported beef, 1% comes from Brazil and of that the vast majority is processed into things such as corned beef. We are about 75% self sufficient in beef and of the remaining imports, over 70% of our beef imports come from Ireland. Production systems in the UK and Ireland are vastly different to the feedlot systems favoured in the US and places like Brazil.

My own family farm produces beef and it is predominantly grass fed - pasture in summer and hay and silage in winter. Diet is supplemented at times with home grown barley. No soya. Ours is not an uncommon method of production. It is highly sustainable and the pasture land is a highly efficient and long standing carbon sink. In many ways more reliable than trees. When a tree dies it is either burned or rots which releases the carbon locked in it. While grass remains permanent pasture it sinks carbon through its roots into the soil and the carbon is locked in. Grazing magnifies this process.

The chances of eating Brazilian beef is very slim when you look at the numbers. But sadly, post Brexit this is more likely to be the case as we rush to allow imports of food produced to standards that we are forbidden to in the UK. It's progress apparently.