Mimmo

Why are you showing such an interest in the petition, when it's obviously got nothing to do with you. I wouldn't mind betting that a lot of the Blue Badge Holders are old/oldish people, who are not terribly much into computers, and those that are, seem to look at Twitter these days (something I don't play with), so a great many will be unaware of what is going to face them on arrival at the first meeting. Luckily, the thirty-five people that have signed, know they can stay at home and save their money, by not having a wasted journey.

My wife is in an advanced stage of cancer for both lungs, breast and hip, and recently finished an 18-week course of chemo, which hasn't worked, so has just started another 6-9 month course of a different chemo.which means she can only do short walks at a time without resting, which rules us out of ever going to Peterborough again. She's always loved her speedway at Peterborough, as do I to be honest, and now we'll NEVER be able to go there again. It's a very sad day for us and the great many others that are disabled, who have ploughed money through the turnstiles for 'X' amount of years, only to be thrown aside like this. There was never any problems with cars, disabled or not, parking inside Buxton and Stoke, so why should there be at Peterborough. It's far more dangerous leaving other stadiums where the public are mingling with cars trying to beat each other out of the car park. If we assume that say twenty cars with blue badge holders stop attending, and I'm sure it will be a lot more than that, there's usually a minimum of two people in each vehicle, that takes it up to forty paying customers, and let's assume they are all concession customers, that the club will lose throughout the season.At the moment, assuming they don't make the play-off's, they have sixteen home fixtures planned. Based on the 2019 admission price of £16 (they haven't disclosed the 2020 prices on their website, other than for season tickets) that equates to £10,240. All twenty cars pay £1 to park which equals £320, and lets presume that 50% of them buy a programme at £3 per head, which comes out at £960. That means in 2020, the club are going to lose in the region of £11,520. Can they really afford to do that?

Why, it's a very important issue, and needs to be aired?

Then find they can't manage the long walk, and have to turn round and drive back home, having spent time and money getting there.

If we assume that say twenty cars with blue badge holders stop attending, and I'm sure it will be a lot more than that, there's usually a minimum of two people in each vehicle, that takes it up to forty paying customers, and let's assume they are all concession customers, that the club will lose throughout the season. At the moment, assuming they don't make the play-off's, they have sixteen home fixtures planned. Based on the 2019 admission price of £16 (they haven't disclosed the 2020 prices on their website, other than for season tickets) that equates to £10,240. All twenty cars pay £1 to park which equals £320, and lets presume that 50% of them buy a programme at £3 peer head, which comes out at £960. That means in 2020, the club are going to lose in the region of £11,520. Can they really afford to do?

We're struggling mate. Jan starts yet another 21-week course of chemo this morning.

What a heartless person you are. My wife, as I've said before, is in an advanced stage of cancer for both lungs, breast and hip, which means she can only do short walks at a time without resting, which rules us out of ever going to Peterborough again. I personally find your comments most hurtful, and hope for your sake that you never find yourself in the position that we are in, then you won't be so cocky with your insulting statements, so please, for the sake of all those whose lives are being torn apart, stop it now.

Don't know if it really matters as the crowd levels will drop, by at least a fifth I would have thought, and taking that over a season, that's a serious financial loss for any club.

As you did for Jan and I too Neil, for which we thank you.

No if's and buts, that's the end of Peterborough Speedway for us. I don't give a hoot myself, but feel so sorry for my wife whose condition is worsening by the month. Thank goodness she's still got Mildenhall.

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I thought Kevin Jolly had declared his interest.

Bloody ridiculous attitude to take, because all the person on the gate taking the money has to do, is check the photo on the Blue Badge to confirm that person is in the car. But forgetting all that, I thought this decision had been taken due to Health & Safety reasons, so the promotion want to get their stories right before Mr Johnson makes comments like those above. I wonder how any of them would feel if they had serious health issues or general disabilities.

It's not only sad Gemini, it's out and out disgraceful, and pure discrimination against disabled people. As I've already posted, if this decision isn't overturned, then EVERYBODY must be banned from taking their vehicles into the Showground, which includes promoters, team managers, track staff, bar staff, track shop staff, stewards, absolutely EVERYBODY.

Very sadly of no interest to me anymore.

Neither have the many non blue badge holders that park in those spaces Neil, including building contractors and council vans that I have seen recently!!!

Sorry, I should have said Buxton, not Boston.

Stoke & Boston always allowed cars trackside Mike.

Agreed. As I wrote in an earlier posting regarding my wife's lungs and hip cancer, she gets little pleasure out of life as it is, and Peterborough has been one of the few places where she's been able to get her mind taken off all the nasty things she's going through with chemo. I feel so sorry for her, because she just can't manage to walk that far anymore, so it ends the visits for both of us.

They flew past mine too.

They'll never answer, so it's a waste of time asking, in any case, us blue badge holders will no longer be attending meetings to ask such questions,

Quite right Neil. This new ruling should apply to ALL track staff, officials (including promoters), and everyone else involved in running the speedway, it can't be one rule for one, and another for others. It is 100% impossible for my wife to walk from the so called new designated parking areas. GOODBYE PETERBOROUGH SPEEDWAY, it was nice whilst you allowed us to visit.

My wife has cancer in both lungs plus her hip amongst other places, recently finished an 18-week course of chemo, which hasn't worked, so is about to commence another 6-9 month course of a different chemo. She's always loved her speedway at Peterborough, as do I to be honest, and now we'll NEVER be able to go there again. It's a very sad day for us and the great many others that are disabled.

I wish we could have given the job to a Brit....end of.

He is mate, He used to live in Heacham along the road from, but moved a couple of years ago to another nearby village.