Transport to White Hart Lane!
As a kid living in Walthamstow it was always a chore getting to Spurs considering Walthamstow is a neighbouring borough to Tottenham! I used to think surely there must be some kind of conspiracy
to make it as difficult as possible to stop Spurs fans from getting to White Hart Lane. You simply could not get a bus to the ground or a train. I would normally get a 123 bus or a 275 from Forest Rd down to Tottenham High Rd and then have walk the extra mile to the ground or alternatively get off the bus at Tottenham Hale and walk the extra mile and a half from there..
Mind you, the 275 bus nearly made it to the ground after diverting half way around South Tottenham then turning right back down Tottenham High Rd and then conveniently turning left at Bruce Grove down Lordship Lane so you still had to leg it for half a mile!
When I followed Spurs at away games in the sixties you would find busses were laid on for the fans in Leeds Manchester, Coventry,Leicester etc and most other Cities!
This situation is still the same now I believe with the lack of public transport between Walthamstow and Tottenham. Maybe it doesn,t matter so much these days as to my knowledge there are hardly any Spurs fans living in Walthamstow or Tottenham for that matter these days! but maybe that will change...one day
Surely especially now with the New Stadium it would make sense for Local fans to be able to get to the ground by public transport and to not take their car. We all know anyway there is hardly any parking for cars anywhere near WHL thanks to Harringay Council. This you may think is not worth looking at but it may make sense for Spurs and the Football Club to have those extra fans being able to get to our New Stadium conveniently or get there at all! in this Locality from Walthamstow to Tottenham.
It still gets my goat looking back..well it's incredible really! never being able to get directly to our ground via public transport from Walthamstow to Tottenham!!!
An old rant