The Concourse
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| Address | 409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood NSW 2067, Australia |
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| Hours | Closed ⋅ Opens 9AM Mon |
| Seating capacity | Theatre |
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| ID | 2371360 |
About The Concourse
The Concourse is a cultural centre in the North Shore suburb of Chatswood, which is a 20-minute journey from the Sydney Central Business District. In 2007 the City of Willoughby commissioned new designs to replace the old Chatswood Civic Centre. The first Willoughby Town Hall was built on the site in 1903.
Where is the The Concourse
Train strikes: Disruption expected as rail workers walk out
... Staff would be " on The Concourse, enabling a conversation with customers, enabling them to assist customers, have a dialogue, and also, when necessary, helping customers to navigate the ticket vending machines which would be on the platform, " she said...
David Bowie's 1983 shows in Milton Keynes remembered
... " There was no way we could get home, so we all just slept on The Concourse, it was full of hundreds of people doing the same thing, " said Mr De Marco, who is now a lawyer...
Man guilty of murdering train passenger with horseshoe in Reading
... During the argument, passengers heard Virgo remark: " Do you want to die tonight? " Following the attack, Craig Parker chased Virgo through the station, catching him on The Concourse and tackling him to the floor in a " bear hug" before rail staff intervened and alerted emergency services...
No Trousers Tube Ride: Trouser-less travellers take to Tube for event
... Participants paraded across The Concourse at Paddington, used ticket machines and escalators at stations without trousers, and rode the Elizabeth line half-suited and booted...
Uefa's organisation of Champions League final a failure, panel finds
... The panel found that as the build-up outside the Stade de France became increasingly dangerous, a ticket checkpoint was removed, releasing fans on to The Concourse, but event organisers had shut some stadium gates to control the situation, which had been exacerbated by hundreds of local people trying to enter without tickets...
Champions League: Witnesses raise new questions about chaos of Paris final
... " But the intense bottlenecks at turnstiles on the Liverpool side, he said, were largely triggered by a decision to suspend preliminary ticket checks further back, to relieve crowd pressure on the ramp at the southern entrance to The Concourse...
Train strikes: How did passengers cope with day one?
... At Glasgow Central station, normally Scotland s busiest, the departure board and The Concourse were empty at 05:30...
Tube strike signals end of party for Londoners
... Rolling their suitcases across The Concourse at Waterloo station, it quickly becomes obvious their journey to King s Cross St Pancras will be much trickier than it otherwise would have been...
Uefa's organisation of Champions League final a failure, panel finds
By Layla Wright & Rumeana JahangirBBC Panorama and BBC News
The organisation of May's Champions League final by European football's ruling body Uefa was " an abject failure" a panel of experts has said.
Fans were robbed and tear-gassed outside Liverpool and Real Madrid's game at Paris's Stade de France and kick-off was delayed by 36 minutes.
Organisers initially blamed fake tickets and, but their claims drew widespread criticism.
Uefa said it would not comment until its own inquiry concludes in November.
Experts told that fans' calm response was the main reason why overcrowding outside the stadium had not resulted in fatalities.
More Than 480 testimonies by supporters and journalists at the 28 May final were examined by an independent panel, which included Prof Phil Scraton, who previously.
The Panel said fans were " held for several hours in a bottleneck" near the stadium, before finding themselves " again in static queues at malfunctioning turnstiles".
" On leaving the stadium, they were attacked at knife-point by gangs who stole their possessions, " they added.
Their report found there had been:
The Panel added that there had been an " abject failure by Uefa in meeting its responsibilities".
The Paris police did not respond to a request for comment from BBC Panorama, but have previously said they regret using Tear Gas against vulnerable people or those who did not cause trouble.
They have also said they regret The Failures outside the stadium after The Match .
to both Liverpool and Real Madrid fans in June and has commissioned its own independent review into The Event .
'Couldn't breathe'The report said that before The Game , about 15,000 Liverpool supporters were caught in a bottleneck near an underpass, after a decision to Take Down signage meant fans were only directed down one route to the stadium.
The Panel found that as the build-up outside The Stade de France became increasingly dangerous, a ticket checkpoint was removed, releasing fans on to The Concourse , but event organisers had shut some stadium gates to control The Situation , which had been exacerbated by hundreds of local people trying to enter without tickets.
French authorities used Tear Gas , with children, elderly and disabled people Caught Up in The Chaos , and riot police were deployed, despite Merseyside Police 's pre-Match intelligence report stating that Liverpool fans were well-behaved in Europe and did not appreciate the use of heavy-handed policing.
BBC Panorama analysed More Than 300 videos recorded by fans, which showed thousands of supporters in tightly-packed crowds outside the stadium encouraging each other to stay calm and to back up.
Maxwell Pearce, aged 11, said he thought he was " going to die" after being tear-gassed and described how others encouraged him to get on the ground and hold his scarf over his face so he could breathe.
Grace Merritt, aged 19, said she felt like she " couldn't breathe because my ribs were in so much pain and I was thinking: 'Oh My God , anything could crack here, anything could be broken'. "
The Fan , who was at The Game with her Younger Brother , received hospital treatment when she returned to Liverpool.
Dan Austin , who was caught in the underpass bottleneck, said awareness of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster , where a stadium crush led to the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans, " meant that everybody knew what to do".
He added that Liverpool supporters had " been through that before and… everybody, even people Like Me who were not alive at The Time when it happened, has that kind of collective and local memory of What Happened instilled in you from growing up".
, a French inquiry found The Chaos was caused by administrative errors and that authorities had blamed Liverpool fans unfairly.
Prof Scraton said there had been serious failings by The Event 's organisers Uefa, adding that the organisation had the " overarching responsibility to get it right [and to] care for Those People who are putting their hands in their pockets and coming into those matches".
Layla Wright's Panorama investigation, is on Bbc One at 20:00 BST.
Source of news: bbc.com
