Showpiece stadium for Euro 2012

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This is Warsaw's showpiece stadium for the Euro 2012 football competition.
Instead of building a brand new stadium somewhere sensible, the authorities are attempting to reconstruct this decrepid relic bang in the centre of the city.
Only twenty minutes by foot from the Palace of Culture, this stadium would have to accommodate around 50,000 fans - that is 1,000 buses arriving all at the same time. Yet it is hard enough to park a car at present on a Sunday morning when the market is at its peak.
Whereas the point of having a national stadium must be disputed - surely people in Katowice, Szczecin, Lublin, Gdansk and Wroclaw deserve the chance to see their national team and a better solution would be to revolve it.
However for reasons of prestige the opening ceremony has to be held in the capital - so why not upgrade an existing stadium? It makes far more sense.
And if a new stadium must be built, then why not outside of Warsaw, somewhere where people can get to easily by public transport and by road and not in the centre of the capital.
To put this into realistic comparison, it is like building the national stadium at Marble Arch in London or just off Etoile in Paris.
A huge amount of prime development land is being lost for no reason at all and so far I have not heard one word in protest. Or is there something I am missing?

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[alanheath]

22 October 2011 It is looking much better now! Very nice in fact. However I still contend that it was a ridiculous place to locate a stadium more or less bang in the centre of a capital city!

[fatjake2003]

Alan Heath.

I understand your concern.

And I appreciate the fact that you are trying to make the best out of this stadium construction. Not many people care about Poland. I am Polish. I care.

I thank you for this video Alan.

[jolzak925]

Do Kazikowski: A kogo Ty reprezentujesz???

No bo chyba nie zdrowy rozsadek... Stadion w tym miejscu to nieporozumienie. Jest to wyrzucanie pieniedzy w bloto. Po Euro 2012 budowla bedzie bedzie stala smutna i pusta. Byly proponowane inne lokalizacje ale w koncu zadecydowala polityka a nie ekonomia. Nie reprezentuje deweloperow, wyrazam tylko swoja opinie na temat Stadionu. Allan nie kieruje sie sentymentami i lokalnymi interesami - zgadzam sie ze jego opinia 100%.

[alanheath]

OK tell me how. Even this morning the trams and buses were packed and that is without a match and without 50,000 people meeting in one place at one time.

I do not believe in national stadiums. I think fans all around the country have the right to watch the national team and not just those in the capital.

[alanheath]

I think perhaps you are missing something. A football stadium cannot be turned into a cinema or a shopping centre. The only other thing it can be used for is mass events such as concerts.

My suggestion is to do just that - to use it for development.

There is no pro about a stadium in the centre of the city. No-one has considered how 50,000 people are to be conveyed here in the space of 30 - 45 minutes before a game. The stadium should be in a place accessible to all fans!

[kazikowski1976]

who do you represent? a lobby of developers:) ? there are pros and cons to build the stadium in centre. on eof this yei things is: it will keeps the stadium vibrant even if there is not a football event at the time. simple: cinema, passages, shooping centre, butiques, spa etc. it makes it self-productive and profitable

[kazikowski1976]

alan. u r not familiar with the history of this legendary stadium. in 50ies when Poland played soviets at the dziesieciolecia stadium there was a crowd of 100 thousands spectators inthere. no problem to transport 50 thousands people to the match

[alanheath]

Dzieki nie - nie jestem homosexualistem.

Ale nie mam nic preciw ludzie tak jak Ty ktory sa.

[TiKiJooOo]

chuj Ci w dupe i tyle, czaisz !

[alanheath]

Pytam Ciebie. I nie dostanię odpowiedzi.

[TiKiJooOo]

No kurwa nie autostrady ,które robią niewiadomo ile i mosty trzeba po 2 latach naprawiac ;/ Albo jedna, niedokończona linia metra w kraju!! Zastanów sie trochę!