Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

Click on the FT link for access to the full article.

The section about the Coop Live Arena is further down the article, if you don’t want to read the full article?

The full article is worth reading as it’s a good insight into the growing indoor arena industry, etc, and the growing revenues it will generate in the future.

 
Agueroooooooooooo said:
That would be great. The trouble is it would cost a fortune. The monorail is driverless and so is raised up on stilts the whole way to keep it away from cars, pedestrians and horses and carts. Gatwick serves thousands everyday so they could justify and recoup the cost.
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Monorails are pretty useless beyond the likes of short Airport Terminal People Movers. They can only cope with a point-to-point system or a loop. No points and no branches are possible. They are a technological blind alley.

The most high profile one I can think of was the Sydney Monorail. This opened in 1988 and was closed by 2013. The only monorail I have travelled on is that in Kuala Lumpur. I was underwhelmed. It was slow and not particularly comfortable.
 
JGL07 said:
Monorails are pretty useless beyond the likes of short Airport Terminal People Movers. They can only cope with a point-to-point system or a loop. No points and no branches are possible. They are a technological blind alley.

The most high profile one I can think of was the Sydney Monorail. This opened in 1988 and was closed by 2013. The only monorail I have travelled on is that in Kuala Lumpur. I was underwhelmed. It was slow and not particularly comfortable.
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DLR in London seems to work alright
 
gaz76 said:
DLR in London seems to work alright
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its okay when you can purchase additional trains from the levelling up fund ! I’m not joking the additional DLR attains for latest extension are being funded by the levelling up fund. But Manchester are short of trams but there’s no money available….. wtf.
 
nmc said:
its okay when you can purchase additional trains from the levelling up fund ! I’m not joking the additional DLR attains for latest extension are being funded by the levelling up fund. But Manchester are short of trams but there’s no money available….. wtf.
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Pipe down sir, our amazing mayor will have a plan up his sleeve
 
gaz76 said:
You might think that with manchester being such an innovative place and creator of so much, that we could do better than "dunno maybe a couple more buses" and "whatabout putting a few arty type thing and stuff next to the dodgycanal path"
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The answer to the transport problem is broadly there - the Metrolink - That’s how you move large numbers from the Etihad Campus to a variety of destinations but, the whole system has been so badly implemented, no sidings to store additional trains, a bottleneck on the line to Piccadilly and trams that have insufficient capacity. The Council and others should focus on making the Metrolink fit for purpose.
 
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