City bus scheme for home games - bus tracking (P91)

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The Stockport Iniesta said:
That's the one problem I see. Allow people to book in advance, and that way it's easier to gauge demand.
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Trouble with that is you’d probably have to make it one or the other.

You couldn’t really have people paying cash at the first couple of stops and someone waiting at the next stop with a prepaid ticket and no one knowing if there’s going to be room for them.

Maybe once the trial is over and they’ve had to time to gauge interest, they’ll be able to review that.
 
johnnytapia said:
Absolutely bobbins. The club could afford to fully pay / massively subsidise buses from all 4 compass points for every game. It would mean cooperation with the council and it would cost the club hundreds of thousands but it could be done. But instead we get this half arsed effort.
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Are you being serious?

You expect City to pay travelling expenses for fans!
Nice idea but no other business does that.

Being serious though, the addresses of match going fans will be spread far and wide, even across Grtr Mcr.
You want a bus running from every City fans house?

I checked the bus that calls in Timperley, Timperley may appear to be a small village to those that don't know the area but it covers a huge area. For example, the Metrolink station is about a mile or more from the village centre, so where would you say the bus actually pick up?

It's something that will benefit some, if no good for you then don't worry about it.

I hope it's a success but I would really like them to put a Railway station in behind Tesla!
 
Corky said:
Only 2 stops in north Manchester at all, and normal bus services are far worse than the south side.
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For this purpose North Manchester would refer to North ‘Greater’ Manchester and include Radcliffe, Middleton, Blackley, Abraham Moss, Shaw, Oldham, Royton, Chadderton, Hollinwood, Broadway and Failsworth
 
ysmsa said:
Are you being serious?

You expect City to pay travelling expenses for fans!
Nice idea but no other business does that.

Being serious though, the addresses of match going fans will be spread far and wide, even across Grtr Mcr.
You want a bus running from every City fans house?

I checked the bus that calls in Timperley, Timperley may appear to be a small village to those that don't know the area but it covers a huge area. For example, the Metrolink station is about a mile or more from the village centre, so where would you say the bus actually pick up?

It's something that will benefit some, if no good for you then don't worry about it.

I hope it's a success but I would really like them to put a Railway station in behind Tesla!
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Think you misunderstood me. I’d love it to be a success. It’s an admirable idea. But let’s be straight, we’re a first class team with a tenth rate infrastructure - it’s a fucking nightmare getting to and from the ground and has been since we moved from Maine Rd. as a club we could, and should have spent millions on developing a high speed transport system to and from the ground. It would necessitate local government involvement but ££££ talks.
 
Stephen230 said:
Trouble with that is you’d probably have to make it one or the other.

You couldn’t really have people paying cash at the first couple of stops and someone waiting at the next stop with a prepaid ticket and no one knowing if there’s going to be room for them.

Maybe once the trial is over and they’ve had to time to gauge interest, they’ll be able to review that.
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Definitely, but paying in advance online is really easy these days. It's better than the match bus driving past blues at the bus stop because it's full.

If a bus sells out quickly, put another on. It's not rocket science.
 
levets said:
Haha, I’m sure you do. Just suggesting an option and probably the reason why it starts in Shaw
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That would mean a bus into Rochdale , tram from Rochdale to Shaw then bus to the game , hardly effective.
But its not a criticism at all im glad the club are doing something about it , and hope that it can be expanded in time. I shake my head at posts on here moaning about it , we've become very self entitled.
I do, however, remember the days if getting the 17 match special from Rochdale to Main Road back in the 80/90's funny how in this day and age that were 'thinking green ' it's harder to travel less distance
 
I actually suggested this idea in the Metrolink/matchday travel thread about a year ago, so I guess they might actually listen
Sods law, then, that the area I live in nowadays isn’t currently served by this. Though I’m sure more stops will be added as time goes on, if the demand is there
If anything its a damning indictment of the tram service that the buses mainly correspond to Metrolink stations.
Surely areas not already well served by the Met, like proper Salford, Leve, Longsight, Hulme, Heatons, Reddish etc should be catered for first?
 
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