Manchester traffic

[remember arthur mann]

That's on the flat. Overall for a journey around 17 mph. I do see City fans cycling to the game. There are spaces around the stadium people used to lock them to the railings outside the corporate entrance but I think they've stopped this.

Big problem this, no backyards around the Etihad to leave your bike !

 

[ell]

Wednesday made me want to pack in my job and take a lesser wage job within walking distance. Sick of it. And night games are becoming a real problem, having to leave work earlier and earlier to make them.

 

[fatbloke]

The government happily up the tax on diesels but cause more pollution by slowing traffic to a standstill. You only have to look at the M6 as a prime example, systematically orchestrated traffic jams with the variable speed limits to try and frustrate drivers out of their cars and it’s happening in every city centre these days too. The M60/M62 between Rochdale and Trafford can take 20 minutes on a clear run, in a morning it’s taken me 1.5 hours some days due to the 50mph limits and roadworks that no cnut is ever working on.

 

[oakiecokie]

I picked my lad up from work in Middlewich at 4.00 pm and remarkably we got to the Heineken Brewery on Moss Side at 5.05 pm.As we got within 50 yards of the first roundabout for the Mancunian Way it took us approx 15 minutes to get within 1 minute of reaching the Etihad and then the biggest fuck up off the night,orchestrated by GMP.
3000 Dutch fans were given a police escort from city centre to the Etihad causing a fucking gigantic standstill of traffic in every direction,not just around the Etihad,but everywhere in Manchester.
Add to that Little Mix were also on at The Arena,the Christmas Markets were on and what do you get ... a fucking meltdown.
Now I accept that with that amount of away fans coming to the ground that security needs to be tight,but why the fuck move them from the city centre to the ground at 5.00 pm the daft bastards.
The one worrying scenario that could have happened at that time of night could have been a terrorist attack in town and fuck knows how the emergency services would have coped.
Senior GMP Officers must have had a brain fart to help organise such chaos on a grand scale that night.
Tossers the lot of `em.

 

[blueju]

You voted a Scouser in as mayor?

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

I'm in Phoenix, Arizona at the moment and have just driven on a 6-lane urban freeway (5 standard lanes plus a high-occupancy lane at rush hour). They still have jams & bumper-to-bumper traffic at times but I was laughing with my son about the 6-lane highway compared to the 1-lane highway that is a Bury New Road, a major arterial and commuter route from the City centre to the M60.

I work in Sedgley Park and haven't used Bury New Rd since some idiot planner decided to halt traffic for the pleasure of widening the damn pavements. On the rare occasion that i have, I've seen people walk to Prestwich Village quicker than I could drive - and still months of work to go. Should be a dual carriageway given the volume of traffic.

 

[Shuffs]

What's with the feckin "bus gate" on Oxford Road. Been done for that, didn't even know it was a thing.

I very rarely drive in to Manchester, but had to on this particular day and last time it was an ordinary road. Money grabbing twunts.

 

[baggy]

Congestion charge voted out, unsuable road management voted in, deliberate ploy by the council

Exactly this.

I would'nt mind but the public transport options are awful/expensive, hence so many people still opting to use their cars.

Absolute shitshow from the authorities tbh.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I work in Sedgley Park and haven't used Bury New Rd since some idiot planner decided to halt traffic for the pleasure of widening the damn pavements. On the rare occasion that i have, I've seen people walk to Prestwich Village quicker than I could drive - and still months of work to go. Should be a dual carriageway given the volume of traffic.

My mate has a bee in his bonnet about the work on BNR and actually met the guy at Bury Council who planned it. He asked if the guy had ever driven down there and it turned out he lived in Ramsbottom so hadn't. Also the majority who expressed a preference in the consultation didn't want that single lane scheme but they went ahead with it anyway.

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

Big problem this, no backyards around the Etihad to leave your bike !

I have cycled to the Etihad for every Champions' League fixture this season. I live 6.2 miles away door-to-door with a cycling time of 27 minutes. Bike parking is plentiful at the stadium. I love it. It's easily the quickest way to get to the match. You can be waiting half an hour just to get on the tram for instance!
Give it a go!