Metrolink to / from Etihad

Blue Mist said:
I remember the lie they told. No concerts would be taking place on the day of a game.
Last night thousands are arriving at the Etihad stop just as thousands are leaving.
No wonder kids got crushed, absolute piss poor planning as CFG and others chase financial dominance.
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The bit about no concerts on a match day was a nonsense promise from the start. It's been pointed out loads of times already but concerts are booked months and months in advance. Football fixtures get moved 5 or 6 weeks in advance. And nobody at Sky, TNT Amazon etc will even give a seconds thought to whether there's a concert on. Perhaps just as well yesterday wasn't a close game as it allowed people to start leaving from about 75 minutes onwards to stagger things!!!
 
Blue Mist said:
I remember the lie they told. No concerts would be taking place on the day of a game.
Last night thousands are arriving at the Etihad stop just as thousands are leaving.
No wonder kids got crushed, absolute piss poor planning as CFG and others chase financial dominance.
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Paul McCartney is playing at the Co-Op Live on derby day
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
If there’s somewhere after the game to get a coffee/food in the warm and dry then it might not be too bad as some might do that while the queue shortens. Hopefully the food outlets in the new stand will be opening to cater after the match.

But, as I keep saying, shuttle buses to and from Central Park would be a doddle. Just run it along Ten Acres Lane and either Briscoe Lane or down near the Velodrome. Make use of the expensive tram stop built there.
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There used to be 24 pubs around the stadium when we first moved there in 2003. They all always used to be packed, went in them all over a few seasons. It was a cracking pub crawl for some games.

Now there are 5 pubs left (not forgetting that there is no City Sqaure anymore either), and they are fucking rammed after the game (and before).

If those pubs were all still open, those using the Met would use them over a more spread out period of time before and after the games. With so few options now, people leave getting to the stadium until the last minute before the game and leave immediately after the game so the Mets are rammed before+after.

Back in the early 00s, loads of fans would have been around Bradford/Beswick/MilesPlatting/Clayton/Ardwick areas in the pubs well before kick off and going back to and staying in them well after the final whistle.

The thing with that is, one of the landlords told me he could run his pub just from the take from City matchdays, yet almost 20 pubs have shut?!
 
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I haven't been to the Etihad for years and after reading this thread I wouldn't want to go these days if I had free tickets. It sounds like a worsening shambles. Having concerts on the same day as matches just shows contempt for the paying punters.
 
Stephen230 said:
To be fair to the employees they were all in the dark. The issue was that large crowds were arriving for the concert and some kids apparently got crushed getting off as football fans were attempting to get on.

Someone made the decision to tell football fans that all trams were suspended until further notice. It lasted about 15 minutes and then it was back to normal.

The poor fuckers trying to police it hadn’t a clue what was going on and were just getting non stop abuse.
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Telling people to start walking to town when they struggle to walk that sort of distance. IMHO anyone saying that to people who struggle walking is in the wrong job
 
dansyb said:
Telling people to start walking to town when they struggle to walk that sort of distance. IMHO anyone saying that to people who struggle walking is in the wrong job
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I think whoever the person in charge of making the decisions, panicked. He probably got a message that there was some crushing going on down on the platform. He immediately ordered all the entrances to be shut, which was fair enough, while they assessed the situation. But they gave no information to the staff manning those gates, other than, there’s no trams until further notice.

That left the staff winging it regarding what to tell increasingly agitated and aggressive punters. I think some of them assumed “until further notice” was most likely something along the lines of a bomb scare and were telling people they might as well walk it in good faith.
 
Really_here said:
I haven't been to the Etihad for years and after reading this thread I wouldn't want to go these days if I had free tickets. It sounds like a worsening shambles. Having concerts on the same day as matches just shows contempt for the paying punters.
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It's an inconvenience yes, but manageable, I certainly wouldn't turn down free tickets to a team I supposedly support because of it.
 
Stephen230 said:
I think whoever the person in charge of making the decisions, panicked. He probably got a message that there was some crushing going on down on the platform. He immediately ordered all the entrances to be shut, which was fair enough, while they assessed the situation. But they gave no information to the staff manning those gates, other than, there’s no trams until further notice.

That left the staff winging it regarding what to tell increasingly agitated and aggressive punters. I think some of them assumed “until further notice” was most likely something along the lines of a bomb scare and were telling people they might as well walk it in good faith.
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Comms is definitely an issue throughout and it's something they need to address. I approached the tram driver on Sat at Stretford and politely asked what was happening due to the tram being sat there for 15 mins. Also trams were backing up. He didn't know the reason and had been told to wait there with no further info.
 
I think it’s fair to say that having late football and a concert together on the same Saturday night proved too much for the system. If only someone had spoken out to warn them. ;

Hopefully someone can ask Burnham about it on his weekly (?) radio interview.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
I think it’s fair to say that having late football and a concert together on the same Saturday night proved too much for the system. If only someone had spoken out to warn them. ;

Hopefully someone can ask Burnham about it on his weekly (?) radio interview.
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Burnham will do nothing. He was warned about the transport dangers outside our stadium created by simultaneous concerts and football two years ago. His response was pathetic. He talks a lot and delivers very little.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Burnham will do nothing. He was warned about the transport dangers outside our stadium created by simultaneous concerts and football two years ago. His response was pathetic. He talks a lot and delivers very little.
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Probably not but it’s important these issues keep getting highlighted and he’s the only one who relies on votes to stay in his position and at least puts his face out there. In his defence he’s still restricted by years of under investment which is taking years to unravel. He’s not yet got all the buses under local control (Jan 2025 I think it’s all Bee Network). The buses are a little better in the BN areas in my opinion and are staying at £2 a trip so that’s something.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
Probably not but it’s important these issues keep getting highlighted and he’s the only one who relies on votes to stay in his position and at least puts his face out there. In his defence he’s still restricted by years of under investment which is taking years to unravel. He’s not yet got all the buses under local control (Jan 2025 I think it’s all Bee Network). The buses are a little better in the BN areas in my opinion and are staying at £2 a trip so that’s something.
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I mentioned it earlier and that is a lot of Metrolinks problems are obviously nothing to do with him like you say. Keolis/Amey though, who operate it, need a complete rocket up their arse on so many issues. This is where Burnham should be doing what he's paid for. I would suggest they just fob him off with a load of old tosh. Meanwhile the public get an all too regular "not fit for purpose" system.
 
Whether or not said:
This has the potential to become a huge problem. I walked home around the back of the athletics stadium through Bradford last night and the car parks and roads there were carnage. Concert goers trying to get onto car parks as City fans were trying to get off, taxis simply stuck in the middle of gridlocked traffic both ways, etc. The metrolink issue was likewise totally predictable and avoidable, with some common sense. As usual, somebody will have to be injured badly before logic overrides greed.
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Who would have thought there could be a problem with City selling car park spaces and the Co-op selling the same ones for a bit later on.
You can't plan for these kind of issues, you just can't.
 
Blue Mist said:
Who would have thought there could be a problem with City selling car park spaces and the Co-op selling the same ones for a bit later on.
You can't plan for these kind of issues, you just can't.
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Is it true the spaces cost twice as much for a gig than a match?
 
My partner was with her daughter for the concert, and apart from the trams being dangerously packed, the lack of helpful knowledgeable stewards, the queues being so long that they missed the first two acts, the extortionate price of the drinks, the toilets being blocked, and having to leave before the end to have any realistic chance of catching the last train home, they had a great time.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
My partner was with her daughter for the concert, and apart from the trams being dangerously packed, the lack of helpful knowledgeable stewards, the queues being so long that they missed the first two acts, the extortionate price of the drinks, the toilets being blocked, and having to leave before the end to have any realistic chance of catching the last train home, they had a great time.
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It is surprising what people will put up with
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
My partner was with her daughter for the concert, and apart from the trams being dangerously packed, the lack of helpful knowledgeable stewards, the queues being so long that they missed the first two acts, the extortionate price of the drinks, the toilets being blocked, and having to leave before the end to have any realistic chance of catching the last train home, they had a great time.
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That's sounds like what should have been a great night turned into an endurance test. Seems to be a common occurrence with most events that happen in this city nowadays. Ripped off, treated like shite and totally deflated as a result.
 
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