I presume from where I am travelling my best route will be to take the M62 at Stoops and follow the linkway to the ground.Sounds like parking will be a nightmare and makes you appreciate the advantages of KR with all the surrounding streets.

Parking won't be a nightmare at all, but I suppose you may have to pay a couple of quid for some of it and walk a bit further. A problem if you are disabled perhaps, but I wouldn't think that it will be much, if at all, worse than Widnes.

always found parking at Widnes very easy due to the availability of streets in the vicinity

Well, in St Helens there is the availability of car parks in the vicinity, so why is parking suddenly a nightmare?

Geez, anyone would think that some people were being asked to climb Everest to get to a bloody match!

I also found parking very easy at Widnes.

My late Dad used to walk from Parr to Knowsley Road and back every game! but my era was the 22 bus, think for a lot of people times have changed again with the number of cars, you don't drive to a ground or park then walk 15 minutes! anyway Langtree may still come up with the land on the site for a pay car park and pocket some money themselves.

Parking was easy in Widnes, but if you got there near to kick off you'd have a 5/10 minute walk to the ground.

The same situation will apply here.

I don't see an issue with parking at all.

It won't bother us early birds, especially if Mrs Rogues taxi is all fired up, or use the "pensioners bus pass"

I'm puzzled. Which stadium has a car park for fans. The world famous anfield. Old trafford perhaps.

Oh yes KR had loads of parking.

This will be the same as any other stadium. The trick with parking will be how much of a walk up Saints got from the surrounding areas. If it was say 50\50 walking to travbelling then there will be little in the way of problems. If it was more 80\20. in the favour of walk ups at KR then the increase in car usage may become and issue.

as we live out of town yes on the dark side car parking could be quite stress full for my wife for the new stadium she is not a blue badge holder either she can walk but its slow.I sent St.Helens council an e-m asking about park & rides & other parking there is lot of info on here i know.The council e-md back saying that there is plenty of surface parking but the multi -storeys will close at 7pm wtf.I hope they keep them open tho.The cars if left open while late could be at risk from the chavs tho can't see them being patroled even if open late.Do you think park & ride would pay in St.Helens.I mentioned Lea Green for a park & ride stop but they poo pood it.Ask the council yourself

Was on site parking ever part of the original plans for the stadium?? if not why the fuss now? my only concern is living near the town traffic could be a problem for me..I thought traffic taking a short cut to KN was bad enough but I fear this might now be worse..time will tell.

Nope. One of the criteria enabling the plans to be passed was that the stadium encouraged a 'green agenda', hence the cycle sheds, limited car parking and footbridge. The Council also stated an aim to ensure that there were car parks available for use on match nights.

All this was covered around the time the plans were going through but people forget, I guess.

That's fair enough..but to suggest people have forgotten assumes they knew about the plans (and yes I know they where available for the public to view)..I didn't and I think it's fair to assume quite a few other people didn't ..only since the stadium has been built (very nice by the way) have people thought about parking.

You're a Wigan fan. Why would you look at Saints stadium plans or go to the roadshows that lots of people went to or read about the plans in the local paper, etc? I would expect non-Saints fans not to know about such things as parking plans.

Maybe because I live in St helens so they might have an effect on me..shame I never took the chance to view them (my fault)..for what it's worth nearly all the saints fans I've spoken to didn't know about parking when I asked them.