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Improved Disabled Facilities for Rangers
News - 2 March 2010
Glasgow Evening Times recently published an article providing goods news:
Rangers bosses have spent thousands of pounds improving facilities at Ibrox Stadium for fans with disabilities.
The club has added new seating in the Broomloan Stand at Ibrox for wheelchair users as part of the club’s long-term strategy to improve access for both home and away supporters.
New spaces have been added to the rear of the stand with additional space for accompanying carers and a new lift has been installed for direct access.
The project was carried out with the help of access lift specialists SSL Access. Rangers currently have 58 season ticket holders who are disabled and there are now an additional seven match-to-match spaces, designed to encourage wheelchair users to attend individual games. All tickets for this area are supplied free of charge by the Ibrox club.
Gordon McAllister, a spokesman for the club, said: “The seating will give a bit of extra space for our supporters with disabilities.” In the matches against Celtic, who always bring a large support to the ground, the spaces will be used for away fans.”
Marc Barry, a director at SSL Access, said: “The new project in the Broomloan Stand will not only benefit Rangers fans, but also those from the other side of the city, when Celtic come to play.”
"We were delighted to work on the project and it is great to see leading clubs making every effort to accommodate all of their supporters.”
As a regular attendee of Heart of Midlothian fixtures at Ibrox I know this to be an additional enhancement as the club had already installed new wheelchair places in the “away corner section” for disabled supporters from clubs other than Celtic. Stadium allocation is very different for Celtic games and Rangers are to be complemented on their flexible approach.
Keith Ferguson
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