Anyone else had this re:parking at Etihad

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quiet_riot

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Hi everyone,

The Club have received some feedback from fans recently about car parking, and the process of leaving car parks around the Etihad Stadium on matchday.

We've invited you, a select group of City fans who park in official City car parks on matchday, here to see if you'd like to help us improve things.

In terms of what we'd like to ask you to do, it's very simple. For the next 5 home games, starting with Everton on Saturday, we'd like you to time exactly how long it takes to get home from the Etihad Stadium. Once you're home, come back to this discussion and post the exact time it took to get home.

If you'd like to, we'd also invite any videos you have which illustrate any problems, frustrations or positive things which you notice on matchday - like the one posted above.

City will be working behind the scenes to improve things in this time, and would like to know whether the things they do have helped at all. To know whether these things have worked though, it all starts with you!

We'll give you more details later on, but for now, are you interested in taking part? If so leave a comment in the discussion below.
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I've had it! Can't really see the point of clocking the journey from home both ways to see the difference. I told them that it would make more sense to time my entry off Oldham Road to the parking spot on Blue car park and then the same bit on the way home (which would include twenty minutes to half an hour whilst I wait in the car whilst several hundred impatient fans clamour to get off the car park!
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I've had it! Can't really see the point of clocking the journey from home both ways to see the difference. I told them that it would make more sense to time my entry off Oldham Road to the parking spot on Blue car park and then the same bit on the way home (which would include twenty minutes to half an hour whilst I wait in the car whilst several hundred impatient fans clamour to get off the car park!
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Agree, it seems ill-thought out (surprise surprise City) again.

"It took me 2 hours to get home" - ok, but you live in Birmingham so that's not bad. No mention of distance at all, only time.
 
If this ends up with the coaches taking longer to get out there'll be trouble. I may video a few of the cars that try to sneak out through the coaches exit, the inconsiderate twats. ;-)
 
yeseye said:
And you think wasting your time, timing yourself getting home (ha) and other nonsense will make the slightest difference? It's going to take more then a silly survey to sort out the chaos!
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Might take more than a survey to sort out the mess but a survey may be the start of the sorting.
Meantime it takes me at least 4 hours to get home but is a little better now Mancunian way is back to normal flow.
(But I don't park in the stadium car park as it took even longer)
 
quiet_riot said:
Agree, it seems ill-thought out (surprise surprise City) again.

"It took me 2 hours to get home" - ok, but you live in Birmingham so that's not bad. No mention of distance at all, only time.
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I presume they know where you live given that they have contacted you to take part in the survey.
 
yeseye said:
And you think wasting your time, timing yourself getting home (ha) and other nonsense will make the slightest difference? It's going to take more then a silly survey to sort out the chaos!
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So how would you sort out 'the chaos' - genuine question?
 
lancs blue said:
If this ends up with the coaches taking longer to get out there'll be trouble. I may video a few of the cars that try to sneak out through the coaches exit, the inconsiderate twats. ;-)
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Do GoPro do a 'car-roof' mount? That'd be a good way of doing stuff. Yer could fix it on the roof bar, film the ensuing impatience, and all the car horns from motorists when their lane is stationary, and yer'd get the time it takes to get moving and back onto the 'freedom' of Oldham Road and Broadway!

But the big question would be: Which one of you fuckers would nick my camera?
 
YaYa's Left Peg said:
So how would you sort out 'the chaos' - genuine question?
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I don't think that there's a "magic bullet" solution, it's always going to take a certain length of time to shift 55,000 people after any event. To me it seems the major limitations are :-

1. The capacity of the road network around the stadium
2. GMP's decisions on traffic management - how long to hold back traffic while the bulk of pedestrians clear, the timings on the traffic lights etc.

I'm not sure the club's car park policy can make big changes to the waiting time getting out of Blue car park. Getting out of the swamp car parks was even worse last time I drove to a swamp derby.
 
Just vote with your feet. There are plenty of private car parks around the ground, most of which are cheaper as well. If you can't afford to wait at least an hour and thirty minutes after the game don't park in the official car park. Where I park, it costs £5. I have to walk about a mile to get to the ground, but being a young lad in my 20's that's not a problem for me. I usually don't leave the stadium until about 20 minutes after the game has finished, it takes me 10/15 minutes to slowly stroll down the road, get in my car and drive home to Urmston in about 20 minutes.

I'd argue being disabled isn't even an excuse to park there, the industrial estate is £3 cheaper and only very slightly further away from the ground (depending on where you sit).
 
I don't understand why anyone (disabilities excepted) would want to park in one of the official car parks. If driving to the match, I park a 5 minute walk away, free of charge and we are home within 10 minutes - no hassle, no real congestion.
 
I'm glad they're at least trying to address the issue, as the few times I've used the official car parks it's been a nightmare.
 
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