Metrolink to / from Etihad

[Gingers Dad]

Close to Old Trafford there are 6 different Met lines to get on either to the destination of the line or to Manchester City Centre.

You can get the Trafford Centre line from Wharfside which is the closest station to the ground.
Eccles or Media City lines from Exchange Quay which is the next closest.
Eccles, Media City or Trafford Centre lines from Pomona.
Altrincham line from Old Trafford which is the fourth closest station to the ground.
Altrincham, Manchester Airport or East Didsbury lines from Trafford Bar.

I’ve not listed the Salford Quays (Eccles or Media City lines) or Imperial War Museum (Trafford Centre line) stations which are only about as far away as the Old Trafford and Trafford Bar stops.

Next season we’ll have 85% of their attendances struggling with one stop servicing one line (Ashton-under-Lyne line).

Might be lots of ways to get away from there, but imagine having to watch that shit every week

 

[bennyboy]

Moved from South 3 to Colin Bell Y this season to be nearer the supporters bus park.
The games i do not get the supporters bus i will get the bus in and tram back in to town.
I was dreading getting the tram back into town but pleasantly surprised at how the queues flow before tram arrives.
Okay they are still overcrowded but the service is still good enough for me not to leave the match early.

 

[jockblue]

Think its also worth reminding everyone about Manchester City Council's involvement in this mess. They made it an express condition of planning permission for Co-op Live that there should not be one single additional car parking space provided. I can't recall if the same was true of the North Stand expansion but wouldn't surprise me. It's then imposed a much wider no-parking zone around the Campus making it even harder for car drivers. And then, left everyone to it to sort out their own public transport arrangements.

Metrolink are contracted to provide a service across the boroughs, they receive no subsidy to do so. There are constraints on the system - there is need of new generators to allow extra capacity, and the ridiculous half-arsed turnback at Velopark shopuld be expanded to allow all Piccadilly trams to run to Etihad on match days without signifcant distruption. So, yes they can run extra trams but its on a "maybe" basis.

And that leaves the club having to subsidise the matchday bus network. Given the general level of praise for that, it seems to work well, but will soon need to be enlarged to cover more areas, and becasue it becomes a victim of its own success.

At the end of the day, we can't expect public transport to be comfortable, and its likely to be overcrowded when 50000 people all want to go from A to B at the same time. We can hope it will be reliable and frequent, and thats what we've got to improve...especially when its obvious there's demand.

 

[Oldtraffordblue1]

Close to Old Trafford there are 6 different Met lines to get on either to the destination of the line or to Manchester City Centre.

You can get the Trafford Centre line from Wharfside which is the closest station to the ground.
Eccles or Media City lines from Exchange Quay which is the next closest.
Eccles, Media City or Trafford Centre lines from Pomona.
Altrincham line from Old Trafford which is the fourth closest station to the ground.
Altrincham, Manchester Airport or East Didsbury lines from Trafford Bar.

I’ve not listed the Salford Quays (Eccles or Media City lines) or Imperial War Museum (Trafford Centre line) stations which are only about as far away as the Old Trafford and Trafford Bar stops.

Next season we’ll have 85% of their attendances struggling with one stop servicing one line (Ashton-under-Lyne line).

And more when there is a concert on at the same time!

 

[Vic]

Think its also worth reminding everyone about Manchester City Council's involvement in this mess. They made it an express condition of planning permission for Co-op Live that there should not be one single additional car parking space provided. I can't recall if the same was true of the North Stand expansion but wouldn't surprise me. It's then imposed a much wider no-parking zone around the Campus making it even harder for car drivers. And then, left everyone to it to sort out their own public transport arrangements.

Metrolink are contracted to provide a service across the boroughs, they receive no subsidy to do so. There are constraints on the system - there is need of new generators to allow extra capacity, and the ridiculous half-arsed turnback at Velopark shopuld be expanded to allow all Piccadilly trams to run to Etihad on match days without signifcant distruption. So, yes they can run extra trams but its on a "maybe" basis.

And that leaves the club having to subsidise the matchday bus network. Given the general level of praise for that, it seems to work well, but will soon need to be enlarged to cover more areas, and becasue it becomes a victim of its own success.

At the end of the day, we can't expect public transport to be comfortable, and its likely to be overcrowded when 50000 people all want to go from A to B at the same time. We can hope it will be reliable and frequent, and thats what we've got to improve...especially when its obvious there's demand.

The only improvement has been closing the road junctions on Merrill Street so the trams don't get stuck in traffic.