City to expand Etihad to 62,000?

[dips66]

Getting to and from the stadium is a massive chore and I live local. I commend all those blues that put in some serious mileage following our team home and away. The transport system will seriously need addressing with any expansion. I got off the tram at The Etihad coming from town for the Huddersfield game. On the other track there were 3 trams back to back going to town. Great- if it was after the match. Why can't the trams be there ready to go and get people away. Queue, stampede, queue , stampede then get shoehorned in. It's shite now and that's before an extra 5-7000 fans.

An earlier poster had a good idea, a spur off the current Metrolink where it turns off Ashton Road to go past the stadium and under Alan Turing Way.
This track could be single width, going straight up the centre of Ashton road, and rejoini the existing line as it crosses Ashton Road at the side of the Academy.
This spur could hold numerous trams (at least 10 by my reckoning) ready for the final whistle, and could send the fans in both ways, down to Manchester or up to Ashton and the Ashton Moss park and ride.
Add this to the adaptions to the local rail network to serve the ground better, improvements to the Metrolink with an inner ringroad track running along Alan Turing Way between Hyde Road & the Central Park on Oldham Road, and the canal being utilized too (plus a high speed monorail, ok thats me dreaming, haha)
Plus with the attractions of the Collar Site meaning loads of people will not leave immediately after the final whistle,
That last point maybe the most important one, the sooner the Collar Site gets developed the better, this will reduce the issues required to leave the area within as short a time as possible,

 

[waspish]

When they started building the tram lines they said it would go straight down the eastlancs road why haven’t they done that so many fans live on this side of the stadium.

 

[SiMCFC]

The other problem with trams is it causes a huge headache for anyone driving towards Ashton, used to take me 15 mins from being parked at back of Asda to motorway junction, now it is always an hour or so.

 

[Alty_Blue]

This is what the expanded North Stand should look like

 

[willipp]

This is what the expanded North Stand should look like

Looks so impressive, going to be a fabulous stadium. As for it being ready for August, looks like it won't be ready for next August.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

London and Manchester are amongst the worst cities in Europe for traffic congestion (widely reported in April) The transport infrastructure in the North West is laughable and the result of decades of neglect by successive governments. The Etihad is ok if you can walk back into town but for most night matches this is not an option for me. We need to spend billions just to catch up with places like Germany and Scandanavia. The UK is the seventh worst country in the world for traffic congestion, worse than dozens of third world countries.

 

[richards30]

This is what the expanded North Stand should look like

yep...... no chance that will be ready for august!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

This is what the expanded North Stand should look like

Spurs are so lucky. Going to be the best stadium in Europe that. One huge single tier, big first tiers in the other three stands - PERFECTION!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

London and Manchester are amongst the worst cities in Europe for traffic congestion (widely reported in April) The transport infrastructure in the North West is laughable and the result of decades of neglect by successive governments. The Etihad is ok if you can walk back into town but for most night matches this is not an option for me. We need to spend billions just to catch up with places like Germany and Scandanavia. The UK is the seventh worst country in the world for traffic congestion, worse than dozens of third world countries.

It’s a fucking farce isn’t it? How it’s got this bad in Manchester is a scandal!

 

[Marvin]

It’s not just a stadium/match day issue, the public transport and road networks cannot support the volume of the movement of 2.7m people of this conurbation every single day of the year. Rush hour in this city is some of the worst in Europe. Match days are just another example of how it doesn’t work. It’s frustrating every day here.

This is the main commuter area into and around this conurbation day-to-day:

We do not have the road or public transport infrastructure to support slick movement of that many people. And the roads are in TERRIBLE shape.

The transport of this city is not for for purpose.

Not surprising. There's no money. And the consequence is that the brains go overseas and then rather ironically the Empire is reliant on the colony for his money and his know-how.