Metrolink to / from Etihad

Got my pass, just the annual £10 for using the trams/trains in GM.
Are you posting this as some sort of success story?? If anything it just proves what a ballache it is when you have to get around on a tram that isn't running when they've stopped other means of transport that worked fine for years. You're lucky to have someone give you a lift from the car park otherwise I'm presuming that would have meant more delays getting home
No I was pointing out what a faff it was because Metrolink chose the Derby day to terminate all tram services from Altrincham at Trafford Bar. Have the twats got no common sense whatsoever?
 
No I was pointing out what a faff it was because Metrolink chose the Derby day to terminate all tram services from Altrincham at Trafford Bar. Have the twats got no common sense whatsoever?

It impacts people badly when it happens.ive wrote to Burnham a few times but you just get the usual claptrap.
 
I'm only interested in getting to and from the ground from the City center, seems to be a better service on a Sunday, yesterday being a case in point no long queues and double units.
It was only better yesterday because all the trams that should have run from Eccles, Alty and Didsbury were used.
 
What public transport system chooses the weekend of the local derby to terminate it's tram service south of the city.

Answer FUCKING METROLINK.
And to say most of the network is only a few years old, it sure needs a lot of work doing to it.
They should never have been allowed to expand as quickly as they did they couldn't cope before so what chance have we got now.
 
I hate metrolink. Because it runs into areas tfgm decided in their infinate wisdom to discontinue buses running into those areas. They totally ignore the fact not everyone lives near a tram stop, it's more expensive and on days like yesterday you're fucked. Last night trying to get from Altrincham to Didsbury for a drink by public transport was as good as impossible. I used to be able to catch a 370 bus that took me right into the heart of Didsbury village. Last night all trams terminated at Old Trafford and there was no Didsbury trams either, they terminated at Firswood. The only way I could get there by public transport was a 263 to Stretford and catch another bus, a journey that would take me 90 minutes minimum IF the connections aligned. Just fuck off and when you get there fuck off again metrolink!
The 288 bus goes from Alty to Didsbury mate.
 
I used the alternative Metrolink bus option from Stretford and it worked well. After the game as I walked to Piccadilly there was a regular stream of trams passing me into town. The conclusion I can draw from this is that if Metrolink was a simple single track operation they can manage but in reality as it`s grown over the years it can`t cope with peak time operation over multiple routes.
 
From 2024 the Ashton line will be closed for 2 years! because of HS2, the additional cost of running the line from New Islington to Ashton looks like it has been scrapped to save money...
 
From 2024 the Ashton line will be closed for 2 years! because of HS2, the additional cost of running the line from New Islington to Ashton looks like it has been scrapped to save money...
Are there any maintenance or overnight depot facilities between Ashton and New Islington. And what about staff facilities. - I know they can be built but nobody seems to have considered it.
Cue many thousands of fans forgetting how they got to games for 9 or 10 years before the Ashton line opened.
 

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