North Stand Construction Discussion
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It was. The Metrolink line from Piccadilly Station to the 2002 Commonwealth Games Stadium (as a minimum) was supposed to be up and running in time for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, as part of the rest of the Ashton Metrolink line, which would follow later on. It took over a decade later for the Metrolink line to reach the City of Manchester Stadium, as it was know then.
When the then Prime Minister Tony Blair rode the first tram on the Eccles line in 1999, he promised £520 million of government funding for the Big Bang project. Five years later, despite fervent hopes that the Ashton route should reach the City of Manchester Stadium in time for the Commonwealth Games in 2002, there was no progress on any of the lines.
Then in July 2004, by which time the estimated cost of the expansion had ballooned to almost £1 billion, Secretary of State for Transport Alistair Darling cancelled it and withdrew the offer of funding on the grounds that the new routes were proving too expensive.
Manchester, however, wouldn’t lie down. The ‘Back on Track’ campaign was launched and backed by politicians of all parties, employers and trade unions. Junior transport minister Tony McNulty responded by repeating the mantra “not this system, not at these prices” at every opportunity.
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Initially intended to be known as Sportcity-Stadium, after the Sportcity area it serves, the proposal was changed following the announcement of Manchester City's Etihad Campus project. The station opened on 11 February 2013.
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Thanks. :-)
Not for this thread. HS2 being the latest example. Successive British Governemnts are absolutely f*cking useless at funding and delivering large scale transport infrastructure projects. During that time span of ‘10 years’, funding and delivering a ‘2-3 mile’ stretch of Metrolink track, Japan, China, France, etc would have probably built a high speed rail line/network, an underground line/network, or a light rail network.
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Sections of the track were removed and relaid at other athletics venues and the internal ground level was lowered to make way for an additional tier of seating, on terracing already constructed then buried for the original configuration.
GMP, Flickr.
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Correct.
Sections of the track were removed and relaid at other athletics venues and the internal ground level was lowered to make way for an additional tier of seating, on terracing already constructed then buried for the original configuration.
GMP, Flickr.
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Those pics don’t show that though. It’s just flat ground underneath on those pics.They show the middle tier as the bottom tier and a gap under that tier which was plugged with scaffolding seats to make it look like the tier seamlessly touched the ground.
How they covered the gap:
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I always thought some terracing, don’t know to what depth, had been constructed and was covered over for the duration of the games and then unearthed again during further redevelopment of the City of Manchester stadium, including the construction of the North stand.
Only picture I can find showing the North stand constructed with the seats going in.
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Yes, the bottom side and end were a temporary fix and seating.
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I don't remember that at all but damned if I can find pictures showing either way. It makes no sense to me, building it and then burying it again only to dig it back up later.I always thought some terracing, don’t know to what depth, had been constructed and was covered over for the duration of the games and then unearthed again during further redevelopment of the City of Manchester stadium, including the construction of the North stand.
Only picture I can find showing the North stand constructed with the seats going in.
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SSDA 2003 – City of Manchester Stadium
Manchester has a new iconic symbol for the city. It was completed in March 2002 as the centrepiece of the hugely successful XVII Commonwealth Games. The stadium was constructed on a derelict site a…
Yes, the bottom side and end were a temporary fix and seating.
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a few of my dads old work colleagues quit Network Rail to get involved on a few rail projects in the region a few years ago.
leaps and bounds over ours
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Seems to have made a very slow start for me
I do recall that. Or to what depth, if that did happen at all? Not saying I’m right.
I’m struggling to find any info and pictures of the North stand construction bar the 1 picture I posted, which I had to enlarge, as it was small.
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Japan, China, France, Spain, Germany etc can always fund and build large national and local transport infrastructure projects, yet the UK can’t. And if the UK can, they always go over budget and take decades to be completed.
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