Everton Stadium set to host five Euro 2028 fixtures

If we want these events, including rugby, concerts, to become a permanent revenue generating feature then we must find ways to improve transport links and easier full time exit from the stadium.

Ultimately this will hold us back.

Just ridiculous to build an almost £1B stadium and boast about the massive boost to the local economy when the travel infrastructure is totally inadequate.

Couldn't organise a pissup in a brewery.

Come on Steve (Rotherham), get your act together. Incidentally my rugby league mates from Wigan had nothing but praise for the stadium. Really impressed with it. Makes the transport issue even more of a priority.

Next time, I'm doing what the guys from ToffeeWeb do -- they stay in the bar for 30 minutes after the match and casually walk out with next to no crowds. Does everyone know about the upper tier in the South Stand having the bars open for a while afterwards when the lower tier bar is closed?

"Next time, I'm doing what the guys from ToffeeWeb do -- they stay in the bar for 30 minutes after the match".

That's one way of getting lit up, I suppose.

Can't remember who... :)

If the stadium belonged to the Reds, it would be sorted by now 100% guaranteed.

The point being that we identified the problem 4? Years ago! Methinks the council thought the stadium would never be built or that we would lose our Premier League status. Nevertheless, they will have to sort it out and trains and taxis are not the answer.

Not sure about darkness but staying after the game is a good idea.

We had an hour after the Fulham game, politely asked to leave by the stewards, went into town and all happy!

Michael 6, I did the West Ham night game, thankfully a mild evening, and we walked back to town under street lights, but your points are valid and the weather is too on a long walk...

There has been much discussion on here, lots of suggestions. If Andy Burnham was Mayor of Liverpool, it would have been very different.

Along with Steve Rotherham the chief problem maker rather than the problem fixer.

For some of us old schoolers, it's in our DNA: out and pub.

Trams are being mentioned again but surely another train station closer to the stadium should be the first thing on the agenda of the city council?

More trains on a match-day would also make a lot of sense because it is absolutely horrendous for the motorist.

Who would pay?

So we’re putting barricades in to manage queues at Sandhills, building an overhead bridge at the station to get people to the other side of the platform. We’re putting more street lighting in… and that’s about it. How short sighted.

We should consider a more sensible and pragmatic parking policy ( the no parking zone is too wide and extensive). There’s plenty of car parking opportunity, it’s just too restricted currently.
There should be a faster, fuller matchday bus service. Sell tickets in advance of boarding buses ( like everywhere else!), stop delays with bus drivers acting as cashiers. Buses should be away quicker and fuller in number.
Taxis don’t appear post match because they can’t escape the traffic jams.

In the absence of trains and trams that shouldn’t mean we do nothing. We need to be more ambitious in our thinking.
Who is challenging Liverpool CC, Everton FC to do more?
I’d like to hear their thoughts and plans on transport. I’d like to see Everton fan channels invite the relevant people for discussion and hold them to account.
Ultimately transport inadequacies will hold our fantastic stadium back, and some will be pleased to let that play out.

Of the 52,000 people who will, according to experience so far, how many will:-

1. Walk from and to the city?
2. Drive there and back?
3. Require other means of transport?

Would a reasonable answer to question 3 be 20,000? If so that's a lot of trains & buses.

Perhaps a multi storey car park is the solution and maybe TFG have already identified the opportunity:-

Everton looking to buy Nelson Dock

(Before anyone thinks I'm "point scoring my Evertonianism" that game will probably be my last at home for some time as I simply can't afford to go to so many) but, as I've been to a selection, I hope my observations so far are helpful and valid, and maybe people with other experiences can counter-comment.

For example, my worst experience of the new stadium is definitely the toilets. There are toilets every 20 yards or so in the West Stand but each toilet seems to have only four urinals and one trap. The queues stretch well outside and as a 60-odd-year-old, there have been a couple of occasions when I've been sweating it...

Are there other toilets with more room? At Goodison Park and most away grounds I've been, there's room for 50 or so at the "trough" I've only experienced the East and West Stands, so are there better facilities in the North and South Stands?

I'm fairly mobile for my age so I don't mind the walk (from Lime Street to and from the ground) but I do sympathise with those less fit or able. On two occasions, I got the Metro from Moorfields to the ground but was advised not to even try the return. Besides, I like to go in the 10 Streets on the way back.

The bars get very busy, especially at the Rugby game (they were allowing pints to the seats by the way) but I managed to find smaller queues by walking around the corner. (I was level with the try line in the corner of West and South Stands.

Personally, I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as some reports are making out, and it seems to get better every visit (apart from the toilets). Before the Brighton game, for example, it was manic around the corner of the ticket office and the other corner where the away support was queuing, but at the Fulham game, both those areas were no problem.

By the way -- our stewards are the best in the land! And I know many away supporters who say the same. If there are any stewards on here, or friends of stewards that can pass this on -- well done! Great job and you're a credit to our club.

The ground and facilities are generally very good and the on site staff excellent, and importantly Liverpool has a major new facility. I am sure we will see more on site car parking but surely the Council, Mayor Rotherham and Mersey Travel need to get their acts together and quickly. As winter approaches the problem will simply get worst and certainly has a damaging affect on the Match Day Experience.

Some tremendous insights for those of us who still haven't made it there yet.

"Call yerself an Evertonian?" Ah.. feck off!

I can't remember the names of the streets but there was a fairly new housing estate with lots of roadside spaces. There were also cars and taxis picking up people in the streets between Vauxhall Road and Scotty Road.

Looking at the map, there is a car park on Love Lane? Do they close that for match days or is it not very big?