Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[blueyorkie]

A major factor in attendance is the abysmal transport links. In my case I travel from York, it’s about 70 miles, mostly on motorway or similar. This season the average journey time is between 21/2 to 3 hours. It gets slower season in season out. For the Chelsea game we got onto Broadway in extra quick time only to have long delays on Broadway & Old Road. It’s wearing but it’s we we do. I know others have similar issues with the M6. We need better transport links.

 

[bladdered]

A major factor in attendance is the abysmal transport links. In my case I travel from York, it’s about 70 miles, mostly on motorway or similar. This season the average journey time is between 21/2 to 3 hours. It gets slower season in season out. For the Chelsea game we got onto Broadway in extra quick time only to have long delays on Broadway & Old Road. It’s wearing but it’s we we do. I know others have similar issues with the M6. We need better transport links.

I've given up on Broadway now. Fckin nightmare. From the M62 just carry on to the M60 then get on Oldham Rd from Jcn 22. It's a bit better.

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

To keep up with their neighbours. Frustratingly that new spuds stadium does look impressive.

Even though the Etihad is looking a bit scruffy in parts now, it’s a palace compared to the rat infested rotting pile of old scaffolding in Salford.

Not sure it is to be honest and even if it was, should that really be the benchmark?

Obviously it's not the most important thing in the world and there's a hell of a lot to be happy about supporting City right now but if Arsenal are sorting theirs, with the state ours is in should we not be looking to sort ours?

 

[HelloCity]

The North Stand expansion will be built for this and we’ll have the benefit of funding for it.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

The North Stand expansion will be built for this and we’ll have the benefit of funding for it.

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Only 10 venues needed in the French Euros and the next one in Germany, and with it being UK + Ireland wide, there's just too many existing stadia that are big enough.

Manchester will only get one venue probably and they'll go with an upgraded swamp probably.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Only 10 venues needed in the French Euros and the next one in Germany, and with it being UK + Ireland wide, there's just too many existing stadia that are big enough.

Manchester will only get one venue probably and they'll go with an upgraded swamp probably.

And just like the world cup in 66, theyll get huge funding for updating old toilet

 

[Utter bobbins]

A major factor in attendance is the abysmal transport links. In my case I travel from York, it’s about 70 miles, mostly on motorway or similar. This season the average journey time is between 21/2 to 3 hours. It gets slower season in season out. For the Chelsea game we got onto Broadway in extra quick time only to have long delays on Broadway & Old Road. It’s wearing but it’s we we do. I know others have similar issues with the M6. We need better transport links.

Blimey we travel twice as far and from further north it takes the same time

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Blimey we travel twice as far and from further north it takes the same time

I live in Stockport and it takes me two hours to get home if I get the tram + bus.

Literally quicker to walk.

 

[Holcombe bloo]

I live in Stockport and it takes me two hours to get home if I get the tram + bus.

Literally quicker to walk.

Given that 90 per cent of us are told we are supposed to come from Stockport, hard to understand why there isn’t any good public transport between the two?

 

[bluechippie]

Salford.

Are we to presume that you didn`t take geography as an option at secondary school. Get a map out and see for yourself.

 

[Asa's left peg]

It was confirmed recently that we barely need matchday income. That and what would seem to be a commitment to MCC to reduce cars whilst they continue to vastly over estimate Metrolinks value and capacity, seems to point to what could be best described as indifferent attitude (see ticketing also) by the club. It does so many things well, but matchday isn't one of them.

 

[jrb]

Strange.

I live in Burnage.

15 minute walk to Piccadilly Station. Straight on the 192. Get off at McVities. Home in 30 minutes. Another 10 minutes to Mersey Square.

If I drive, it also takes me 30 minutes. 15 minute walking to the car parked near the cash and carry, opposite Ashbury Train Station. Then 15 minutes home through Gorton.(Mount Road)

TBH I prefer going back into town, having quick a scoop, then catching the 192, getting off in Leve, and having another scoop whilst watching the 2nd half of the Saturday night match in Fred's Bar.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Are we to presume that you didn`t take geography as an option at secondary school. Get a map out and see for yourself.

It's a joke you boring git.

 

[bluechippie]

It's a joke you boring git.

;)

 

[ancoats]

It was confirmed recently that we barely need matchday income. That and what would seem to be a commitment to MCC to reduce cars whilst they continue to vastly over estimate Metrolinks value and capacity, seems to point to what could be best described as indifferent attitude (see ticketing also) by the club. It does so many things well, but matchday isn't one of them.

do they still run the match specials


oddly enough only 2 carriages are used for the city games ? you see double's being used all the time but not on city match days ?

 

[Gray]

do they still run the match specials
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oddly enough only 2 carriages are used for the city games ? you see double's being used all the time but not on city match days ?

Here’s a weird one. Went into town today with my wife to look at the 1921 census at Central Library.

Got the tram from Altrincham at 10:10am and after a short delay at OT for driver change over we set off for St, Peter’s Square. Over the course of that short journey (4 stops) there were at least 16 trams heading in the opposite direction 6 of them going to Altrincham and most of them double units.

Why can’t they do that on match days?

 

[jrb]

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Good to see works progressing on site in north west quadrant during our site visit, to carry out a health and safety visit before issuing RAMS for sprinkler riser installation.

 

[johnnytapia]

I live in Stockport and it takes me two hours to get home if I get the tram + bus.

Literally quicker to walk.

Walk to Piccadilly from the ground, twenty five mins, train to Stockport twelve minutes and they run every five minutes.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Mildly irritating that arsenal are upgrading the exterior of their stadium despite it being built after ours and already looking considerably better

Yeah disappointing that. They’re comparing themselves to their neighbours though, while we’re probably doing the same and thinking “well, Old Trafford’s a shit hole so compared to that we don’t have to do anything to the Etihad”.

But we do!

From a distance the Etihad still looks impressive… but up close, it doesn’t look impressive at all. Especially the ground level of the stadium surroundings.

I took my niece and nephew on Saturday and picked up my nephew when we were walking to the ground because there were so many puddles, his feet were soaked. The puddles are bloody everywhere and quite deep in places.

And it looks dead scruffy all around the outside of the stadium. If you just showed someone a picture of the surroundings to our stadium and said “what do you think to this?” to someone who didn’t know that it was part of one of the best run clubs in world sport, they’d probably think it was the surroundings to somewhere like a struggling Championship or League 1 club.

 

[blueyorkie]

Blimey we travel twice as far and from further north it takes the same time

Interesting, where do you travel from? The M62 is a disaster these days!