Buses following Home games

[BillCarlisle]

Some fellow Bluemooners were good enough to give me advice recently about public transport from Victoria Park to the Etihad. My son is starting at Manchester Uni on Monday and we've been sussing out his matchday travel logistics in order for him to meet up with me. We've sorted out that the 53 bus will be the best option for him to get to the ground but we're not sure about after the game.

Does anyone know if any of the usual queue of buses on Alan Turing Way have a route which goes either by Victoria Park or down Oxford Road as far as Dickenson Road ? If so it may be a better bet for him than getting the normal 53 bus back.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[takeabooson]

only problem with the 53 after the game is that the police switch the traffic lights off around alan turing way after the game for about 30 minutes so he could be waiting quite a while, his best bet would be to get the match bus back in to town and get any bus from piccadilly gardens that goes up oxford road, there a quite a few. if he gets a stagecoach daysaver (approx £4) it will cover him on any stagecoach bus including the match day one. hope this helps

 

[South Stander]

The normal buses just drop off by piccadilly gardens or the side streets just off of (depending on what route the driver's taken)

 

[CTID1974]

with the traffic around the ground and the police shutting the traffic off on Alan Turing way until they've got the Away coaches going back towards the m60, your son's probably better off having a walk back into manchester and getting a bus there, there's always hundreds of people walking back into town and its perfectly safe in my experience,

if he's/your nervous about him being on his own he'll be fine, just walk with the groups of others, probably just as quick as waiting round the ground as well

 

[beano46]

Bus outside the ground to Piccadilly, then the 142, 42, 43, buses all good down Oxford Road and stop at Dickinson Rd, if he's at the Birchfields Rd then after getting off the Bus at Piccadilly then the number 50 is the Bus he'll need, think that goes from Albert Square opposite the Town Hall.

 

[Shellac]

or walk. 45 minutes tops.

 

[peoffrey]

I use the 50 when I stay at the Travelodge on Upper Brook Street. As someone else has said, the 53 will be pointless after the match as the traffic is held up and then delayed like anything.

 

[LongsightM13]

There used to be one that went from Alan Turing Way after the match to Fallowfield, Withington and Didsbury, it went through Longsight and down Dickenson Road to WIlmslow Road. But not seen it for a year or two now.
Whereabouts in Victoria Park is he? Any of the 40s from Piccadilly gardens go along WIlmslow Road. Otherwise the 50 from Princess Street.
Is there still a Rusholme branch of the OSC? They used to meet at the Osbourne, I think. If still going, they might do travel to home games.

(And do you realise that really, VIctoria Park is just a fancy name for the Longsight/Rusholme border, but allows estate agents to whack the rent prices up!)

 

[peoffrey]

(And do you realise that really, VIctoria Park is just a fancy name for the Longsight/Rusholme border, but allows estate agents to whack the rent prices up!)

I used to live on Hamilton Road as a Student and the Landlord wrote "Victoria Park" on the contract! Longsight was actually a laugh most of the time. Friendly service in the shops and takeaways - although I'd never have been able to consider it home. Just somewhere I lived.

 

[LongsightM13]

(And do you realise that really, VIctoria Park is just a fancy name for the Longsight/Rusholme border, but allows estate agents to whack the rent prices up!)

I used to live on Hamilton Road as a Student and the Landlord wrote "Victoria Park" on the contract! Longsight was actually a laugh most of the time. Friendly service in the shops and takeaways - although I'd never have been able to consider it home. Just somewhere I lived.

Whereabouts? I grew up on one of the side streets off Hamilton Road/Beresford Road.
That's about as much 'Victoria Park' as the Etihad is in Denton

 

[BillCarlisle]

Bus outside the ground to Piccadilly, then the 142, 42, 43, buses all good down Oxford Road and stop at Dickinson Rd, if he's at the Birchfields Rd then after getting off the Bus at Piccadilly then the number 50 is the Bus he'll need, think that goes from Albert Square opposite the Town Hall.

Thanks beano46 and all others who have helped with this.

I'd already figured out that a bus to Piccadilly and then any of the frequent buses down Oxford Road might be the best bet but I'm glad that that's been confirmed. He'll have a go at that after the Arsenal match.

I would think that he'd be OK with walking back to Piccadilly amongst Fellow Blues so he'll probably try that out as well. As long as it's not pissing down (which is usually the case for home games). I'm OK - I'll be in the comfort of the Carlisle SC coach !

 

[Jack the lad CTID]

Unfortunately travelling from Fallowfield, Rusholme is rubbish. Magic buses (the big blue ones) run up and down oxford road 24/7 so like others have said only option is to get them from picadilly gardens. As many have said walking back from the ground is the quickest option and i'v been doing this for a fair few years now and regardless of the games never had any trouble. Hopefully if the metro works to full affect this might become a better,quicker and dryer option as well! Enjoy the season.

 

[peoffrey]

(And do you realise that really, VIctoria Park is just a fancy name for the Longsight/Rusholme border, but allows estate agents to whack the rent prices up!)

I used to live on Hamilton Road as a Student and the Landlord wrote "Victoria Park" on the contract! Longsight was actually a laugh most of the time. Friendly service in the shops and takeaways - although I'd never have been able to consider it home. Just somewhere I lived.

Whereabouts? I grew up on one of the side streets off Hamilton Road/Beresford Road.
That's about as much 'Victoria Park' as the Etihad is in Denton

I lived in one of the three story houses on Hamilton Road and in between Hector Road and Mentor Street. I'll fully admit I preferred Rusholme afterwards though. Being on the Wilmslow Road corridor was a bit easier.

 

[jimharri]

or walk. 45 minutes tops.

That's a fair walk, to be honest. Nearly 3 miles.

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Bad enough in dry weather, but if it's pissing down (as occasionally happens in Manchester!), ugh! As has already been said, a 20 minute walk back into town and get a bus from there.

 

[LongsightM13]

I used to live on Hamilton Road as a Student and the Landlord wrote "Victoria Park" on the contract! Longsight was actually a laugh most of the time. Friendly service in the shops and takeaways - although I'd never have been able to consider it home. Just somewhere I lived.

Whereabouts? I grew up on one of the side streets off Hamilton Road/Beresford Road.
That's about as much 'Victoria Park' as the Etihad is in Denton

I lived in one of the three story houses on Hamilton Road and in between Hector Road and Mentor Street. I'll fully admit I preferred Rusholme afterwards though. Being on the Wilmslow Road corridor was a bit easier.

I was only a couple of hundred yards from you. My old primary school was just across the road, St Roberts in Mongomery Road. Dave and Gary Bennett grew up directly opposite the school and Jason and Darren Beckford were just up the way in Clitheroe Road. Small world!

 

[urmston]

or walk. 45 minutes tops.

Or get a bike and do it in 15 mins.

Plenty of bike racks at COMS.

I've left my bike there many times and never had any problems.

 

[Deleted member 14625]

Some fellow Bluemooners were good enough to give me advice recently about public transport from Victoria Park to the Etihad. My son is starting at Manchester Uni on Monday and we've been sussing out his matchday travel logistics in order for him to meet up with me. We've sorted out that the 53 bus will be the best option for him to get to the ground but we're not sure about after the game.

Does anyone know if any of the usual queue of buses on Alan Turing Way have a route which goes either by Victoria Park or down Oxford Road as far as Dickenson Road ? If so it may be a better bet for him than getting the normal 53 bus back.

Any help would be appreciated.

He'd be better off walking into town (it's not ft at all and doesn't seem half as long when there's the whole match at crowds going the same way) and getting a bus from there. Piccadilly Gardens will have the 42 or 43 bus that'll go that way.