I know we take the pee about the traffic lights but the whole road layout in the area needs looking at before even thinking about building anything that will be regularly used on the retail park site.
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Iāve often wondered who the freeholder is, that site was developed around the same time as Bescot I think.
Wonder if the owners of the freehold had any connection to Denglen, the company that developed our stadium and then was dissolved without ever producing accounts.
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Agree with that Steve but there was a time when the retail park was full. Some huge sports store took up a swathe of the left hand side as you looked at it and at a time when we were getting regular 8k crowds in the Championship. One access point didnāt work then and doesnāt now with less footfall.
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Not JB is it? 
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Iām pretty sure that retail park was mid 90s a good 4/5 years possibly 6 years after Bescot.
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Okay, not sure, I thought it was a year or two later than Bescot
Sports Division was there and JJB I think as well if memory serves.
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JTF, Carpet Right and Toy Master
JTF took over a couple of shops left vacant by JJB a bathroom shop, the toy store and maybe one other.
Often thought the club should take the vacant JTF and turn it in to one of these indoor football centres. The old JTF in Tamworth has turned in to one I think Deeney is involved somewhere with it. Small sides pitches, bar, food, you know like an indoor Goals or Power League
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Hmm. Wonder why they changed the alignment of the pitch.
I think if Trivela had of come in and not righted so many wrongs of decades of neglect, not listened to supporters so intently and then acted in nearly all of the areas of concern, developments like this could be questioned.
They have given salaries to people with proven track records in the role they have been given, and we can all see the results of this around the place. Personally, I would go as far as to say the club feels as united as we were in the Graydon years and its not down to one mercurial manager on this occasion, its down to savvy operations.
I am of the belief that many still donāt have a grasp of how damaging a further coulple of years of Pomlett and the Bonser babes would have been. The thought that people are heading to the ground to spend time and money there hours before kick off - a galaxy away from the above named
Who knows what the future holds, but at least we arent looking at clubs like Solihull Moors closing in on us in our wing mirrors now. As long as my club is moving forward, I wont be too worried about more clubs being added to the portfolio.
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Traffic lights on Broadway were changed to give a right turn lane, at the time there was talk about islands etc. The main issue is that the river Tame goes diagonally across the junction and would cost a fortune to widen anymore. Post match could be improved but the cost of Traffic orders and staffing with a Traffic marshals etc. would fall on the club. I think the only time anything was done was Jan 1995 when we played Leeds in the FA Cup, after the game a closure was put in by the station and 2 lanes away in both directions was set up, paid for by the police.
Just thinking about that game, Leeds fan had been ejected from the ground and thought he could watch the match from the M6 hard shoulder, climbing over the steel fence he managed to rip a finger off on the top, police and ambulance had to pick him up and then take his finger in ice to J7 to be reunited, not sure if it was ever reattached. 
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I think that reopening Wallows Lane where it joins the Broadway would help and take a lot of traffic which currently queues to turn left.
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would cause accidents though. The cars would pull out into fast moving traffic.
Perhaps if they had traffic lights it might work
Normally with stadiums itās aligned with Media / Dugout / Main Stand alignment based on 3pm kick offs.
You donāt tend to have the sun beating down on this area of the ground at 3pm kick offs.
Not that in the modern game in the uk itās all that relevant !
@funk_hits_the_fan great post. Agree with it.
Watchful eye on their actions and multiclub ownership.
Thankful of football direction (that I doubted)
All Premier League & EFL clubs could be US-owned, says investment expert - BBC Sport
Interesting, if overly positive, perspective on US investors takeover of EFL clubs
And yet only a few years ago, we were the only club in the area not owned by Chinese!
said this some time ago before the traffic lights were changed, but people be-littled it