Metrolink to / from Etihad

[Eric Hitchmough]

I worked at KAM at a fairly high level on an interim basis for six months back in 2018. Can’t mention my role as it’d give it away.

Let me tell you, the people I worked with didn’t give one solitary shit about this long-standing issue, and a couple of colleagues even threw in the predictable Emptyhad jokes, claiming it made no difference if the trams were running or not when City are at home.

And those colleagues were directly involved in the planning side of things.

I can’t comment on what the culture at KAM is like now. I’ve not been there for 5 years. But it mightily fucked me off back then.

 

[Gray]

I worked at KAM at a fairly high level on an interim basis for six months back in 2018. Can’t mention my role as it’d give it away.

Let me tell you, the people I worked with didn’t give one solitary shit about this long-standing issue, and a couple of colleagues even threw in the predictable Emptyhad jokes, claiming it made no difference if the trams were running or not when City are at home.

And those colleagues were directly involved in the planning side of things.

I can’t comment on what the culture at KAM is like now. I’ve not been there for 5 years. But it mightily fucked me off back then.

Interesting feedbck and I suspect nothing has changed for the better. You had to be there on Sunday to witness just how bad things were. Parents taking families to see the Chinese New Year festivities could not believe how awful it was.

 

[Blue Smarties]

Interesting feedbck and I suspect nothing has changed for the better. You had to be there on Sunday to witness just how bad things were. Parents taking families to see the Chinese New Year festivities could not believe how bad it was.

It was so bad I couldn’t even get my phone out to get a photo and document it.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I worked at KAM at a fairly high level on an interim basis for six months back in 2018. Can’t mention my role as it’d give it away.

Let me tell you, the people I worked with didn’t give one solitary shit about this long-standing issue, and a couple of colleagues even threw in the predictable Emptyhad jokes, claiming it made no difference if the trams were running or not when City are at home.

And those colleagues were directly involved in the planning side of things.

I can’t comment on what the culture at KAM is like now. I’ve not been there for 5 years. But it mightily fucked me off back then.

Says it all!

The service to the Etihad pre-game and especially post-game has been nowhere near good enough ever since the Met line went out there.

Regularly, once one Met goes from the Etihad to Town after the game and you get yourself on the platform, it’s a 25 minute wait for the next Met to turn up. Twenty five fucking minutes. You don’t have to wait that long for a Met anywhere else on the service at any other time on any other day, other than post-match City games. Even in the arse end of nowhere in Shaw, you’d see a more frequent service on a Tuesday afternoon than we get post-game at the Etihad. It’s an utterly dreadful service!

Plus it can be pissing down n’all during that wait with everyone getting piss wet through on the platform with pitiful efforts at overhead cover. Then when the Met finally arrives you’re squeezing on very dangerously with far too many other people.

They're an accident waiting to happen those post-match Mets!

 

[Oldtraffordblue1]

Says it all!

The service to the Etihad pre-game and especially post-game has been nowhere near good enough ever since the Met line went out there.

Regularly, once one Met goes from the Etihad to Town after the game and you get yourself on the platform, it’s a 25 minute wait for the next Met to turn up. Twenty five fucking minutes. You don’t have to wait that long for a Met anywhere else on the service at any other time on any other day, other than post-match City games. Even in the arse end of nowhere in Shaw, you’d see a more frequent service on a Tuesday afternoon than we get post-game at the Etihad. It’s an utterly dreadful service!

Plus it can be pissing down n’all during that wait with everyone getting piss wet through on the platform with pitiful efforts at overhead cover. Then when the Met finally arrives you’re squeezing on very dangerously with far too many other people.

They're an accident waiting to happen those post-match Mets!

The overhead covers got mixed up in the post - Seville got ours

 

[VOOMER]

The current match service is a shit show if your in a wheelchair forget it.

 

[bennyboy]

The current match service is a shit show if your in a wheelchair forget it.

I have noticed on the bus service to and from the ground wheelchair users getting on straight away.

 

[LongsightM13]

The current match service is a shit show if your in a wheelchair forget it.

Tbf the hectors always make sure the elderly, disabled and wheelchair users get on first after the game. But trying to get on pre match when they are already rammed must be a nightmare

 

[Gray]

When it is up to the end user (the fans) to point out Metrolink’s failings and shortcomings then things have gone too far,

The MEN, the Council, the useless Lord Mayor and whisper it the Club should have been all over this some considerable time ago.

The service provided by Metrolink on a match day is simply not good enough, they should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

You have to laugh that Burham bloke slagging off Transpennine trains as being crap (they probably are) but self awareness, sort out the transport problems closer to home.