Spanishbob
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Meanwhile have we any updated pictures of the north stand development? Sorry wrong thread. Any updated pictures of a bus?
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Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread
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Holcombe bloo
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I wouldwould City fans & fans going to the Coop arena when open be willing to pay an extra £1 on their tickets/ seasoncards if it meant more buses before & after the events.
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Meanwhile have we any updated pictures of the north stand development? Sorry wrong thread. Any updated pictures of a bus?
yeah i think they have the kids doing a coloured in version for us this time mate ;-)
Meanwhile have we any updated pictures of the north stand development? Sorry wrong thread. Any updated pictures of a bus?
No, that's why were discussing transport to and from the Etihad Campus and electric buses. :-)
Well it's high time developers WERE made to pay towards solutions and not pay lip service, same goes with National and regional governments.Im sure lots of 500 dwelling developers have invested in travel infrastructure. Name me one other football club that has done something similar.
Also please tell me why during the consultation plan this has never been mentioned anywhere if there was a sniff of it being in their plans.
The focus is on improving walkways and making people stay longer to stagger departures from the area which the existing networks can cope with.
Talk the talk but walk and give the public a viable public transport system so they don't have to rely on the motor car
Electric cars are part of the Government's master plan to get the common man out of cars, they are not the future and never have been until battery technology is revolutionised.Synthetic fuel is still the front runner for me. All the infrastructure already exists, the vehicles exist in their billions.
The big car manufacturers are throwing 50-100m at every single start up, and F1 is committed to switching to it. Would be one of a long list of car innovations that went from F1 to mass production.
blueyorkie
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Hate to be a curmudgeon but how will an electric bus improve matters any more than ordinary buses? Obviously they are the future but other than environmental issues I don’t get it!No, that's why were discussing transport to and from the Etihad Campus and electric buses. :-)
No, that's why were discussing transport to and from the Etihad Campus and electric buses. :-)
bladdered
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You can't hear them when they run you over. All adds to the match day experience.Hate to be a curmudgeon but how will an electric bus improve matters any more than ordinary buses? Obviously they are the future but other than environmental issues I don’t get it!
Hate to be a curmudgeon but how will an electric bus improve matters any more than ordinary buses? Obviously they are the future but other than environmental issues I don’t get it!
That's like saying how will Metrolink improve Metrolink.
The answer for both is more of them and more often.
Unless that happens with Metrolink and the buses, nothing will change.
City and OVG can go on all day about improved walking routes, which is a good thing, but that won't make a massive difference. Neither will (Uber) Taxis, which I don't get.
I've touched on the Taxi topic before. Waiting near the ground on both sides of the road after the match, only to try and do u-turns, and driving though 1000's of fans walking on the road/s back into town. Where else would that dangerous scenario happen on the roads?
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Im sure lots of 500 dwelling developers have invested in travel infrastructure. Name me one other football club that has done something similar.
Also please tell me why during the consultation plan this has never been mentioned anywhere if there was a sniff of it being in their plans.
The focus is on improving walkways and making people stay longer to stagger departures from the area which the existing networks can cope with.
City contributed £500k towards local transport infrastructure through the South Stand expansion alongside additional works we had to do at our own cost.
Do you think my company offered £1m at the outset? Of course we fucking didn't. But it was requested by the bus company, it worked within our viability model so we signed up to it in order to get planning permission. It's up to the relevant transport authorities to determine if this scheme is acceptable and what burden it places on existing infrastructure. They'll then work out what could be done to mitigate that, what schemes there are and how much they cost and say "we need X amount of money" and then City can argue it, or pay it.
That's how it works.
You are quite right, the idea is to spread the load by having people in the area over a long period so reducing the peak travel. But an arena plus a football match with 7,000+ more fans and a hotel is still going to increase peak travel and something more than improving walkways and making people stay longer will be required.