Pope above the law?

Gazbo · Post by **Gazbo** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:47 pm

roadboy wrote:Best be careful about sparking the whole religious debate again.

Dan

as long as it's not a mass debate!

Post by **pete** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:17 pm

Not quite as popular as he was though hey?

I think more people went to see AC/DC at Hampden than the Pope at Bellahouston.

Pope was cheaper too.

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:50 pm

pete wrote:Not quite as popular as he was though hey?

I think more people went to see AC/DC at Hampden than the Pope at Bellahouston.

Pope was cheaper too.

Ibrox gets 60k people every fortnight so why did they have to close the M77 ?

Post by **pete** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:06 pm

BiggestNizzy wrote:
pete wrote:Not quite as popular as he was though hey?

I think more people went to see AC/DC at Hampden than the Pope at Bellahouston.

Pope was cheaper too.

Ibrox gets 60k people every fortnight so why did they have to close the M77 ?

As a sign of respect (because of historical significance) a lot of the faithful were planning to travel by donkey. This takes longer and caused some of the congestion.

Post by **Shug** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:40 am

Actual reason - they had nowhere to park the coaches that were coming, so they turned it into a coach park...

Post by **campbell** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:02 pm

Shug wrote:Actual reason - they had nowhere to park the coaches that were coming, so they turned it into a coach park...

What was wrong with using Ibrox Park, say?

woody · Post by **woody** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:07 pm

campbell wrote:
Shug wrote:Actual reason - they had nowhere to park the coaches that were coming, so they turned it into a coach park...
What was wrong with using Ibrox Park, say?

Erm... There was this guy, Billy, had a white horse, defeted catholicism sometime in the late 1600's, feted by prodestants since etc... etc... etc...

Post by **campbell** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 2:54 pm

woody wrote:
Erm... There was this guy, Billy, had a white horse, defeted catholicism sometime in the late 1600's, feted by prodestants since etc... etc... etc...

Did he have to park on the M77 as well then.

woody · Post by **woody** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:04 pm

campbell wrote:
woody wrote:
Erm... There was this guy, Billy, had a white horse, defeted catholicism sometime in the late 1600's, feted by prodestants since etc... etc... etc...
Did he have to park on the M77 as well then.

Probably.

However, no matter what the football park, they're hardly going to let it be used as a coach park. The turf may well stand up to some knuckle dragging, but I doubt the same could be said of a coach.

If you mean host it in one of the Glasgow staduims, then you've pretty much halved the crowd Vs the Park, and if you specifically mean Ibrox, then I doubt the Rangers/Celtic Catlick/Proddy interface would go down too well.

Post by **Shug** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:15 pm

And while I'm not sure of the exact whys and wherefores of the ownership of trunk roads, I'll bet that using private property like a football park would have added a huge amount more to the cooncils bill than simply slapping on a road closure and some diversions....

j2 lot · Post by **j2 lot** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 3:23 pm

There were more coaches than would fit on the closed part of the M77 so they had overspill into local roads too.

Post by **campbell** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:48 pm

Clearly I was being a bit tongue in cheek.

Let's not worry too much about parking logistics...other thank to be thankful that they didn't decide to use the M80 from Auchenkilns roundabout onwards. Ah, wait a minute, that's already a car park most mornings of the week

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