Metrolink to / from Etihad

Really_here said:
I was at Nottcutts garden centre at Ashton once and when we came out the road was blocked because a tram had hit a car. No-one was hurt and the damage was slight. The driver and the tram driver where talking to police who'd turend up. Waited five minutes and it was obvious it was going to be a while so went back to Nottcutts cafe. An hour and a half later we were finally able to cross the road. I'm sure it would have taken 2 minutes to move the car and shift the tram a few feet!! A bit like motorways being shut for minor accidents and breakdowns. If no-one is injured just push the offending vehicle(s) on to the hard shoulder FFS. I think they enjoy causing havoc sometimes
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elf and safety innit
 
mancityvstoke said:
elf and safety innit
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The parking restrictions is a massive piss take with the lack of any decent working alternative.


Someone needs to lose their job for that alone.
 
Must be a blue on here who works for Metrolink who can answer a few of these issues ?
Also someone get on GMR on Sweenys show when Burnham is on for him to answer these questions
 
DTKOAG said:
Must be a blue on here who works for Metrolink who can answer a few of these issues ?
Also someone get on GMR on Sweenys show when Burnham is on for him to answer these questions
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Have you heard any answers he gives? Proper politician distraction techniques and BS
 
mancityvstoke said:
The parking restrictions is a massive piss take with the lack of any decent working alternative.


Someone needs to lose their job for that alone.
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Lose their job? Manchester City Council are a bunch of motorist-hating bastards of the highest order. Someone who makes life difficult for drivers is more likely to be promoted.
 
East Level 2 said:
Lose their job? Manchester City Council are a bunch of motorist-hating bastards of the highest order. Someone who makes life difficult for drivers is more likely to be promoted.
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This is what I don't get. All councils seem to be trying to force drivers off the road by many and varied means and yet, no trains on Boxing Day or most weekends, an appalling bus service, (don't let Burnham fool you) and simple sensible solutions, like temporary road closures, not acted on.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Currently grounded heading towards the Etihad. Three Mets queued up waiting to get into Piccadilly Stn, not moving at all. Been 10 minutes now.

Lots of Fire Engines on the scene. Can’t see what’s gone on though.
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The tram I was on just after 2pm stopped at New Islington for about 5 minutes. The driver then announced that a tram had broken down ahead of us and he didn't know how long we'd be there for.
Fortunately we were still at the station so we opened the doors, got off and as we walked to the ground we passed a double unit with it's hazards flashing on Merrill Street. Nothing could get past it because of traffic coming the other way.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
That’s two home games in a row where a taxi has broken down on the tracks near Holt Town/Mitchel Arms. How’s that happening with all the Met/traffic stewards there? Just take the handbrake off and roll the car out of the way in seconds… don’t just fucking leave it on the tracks.
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I wasn’t there so I don’t know what happened, but if it had broken down and was stuck in gear you can’t push it out of the way.

Being a taxi I doubt it had manual transmission, these days people are lazy and buy autos.
 
Walking to town after the game on Saturday- two things were obvious. The number of Taxis trying to get to the Etihad and the 5 - yes 5 Trams stuck in the traffic. That small section where the Tram runs along the main road causes chaos and blocks the entire line making it largely unusable after a game. Why didn’t the Tram line continue up Pollard Street and then go behind the stadium?
 
nmc said:
Walking to town after the game on Saturday- two things were obvious. The number of Taxis trying to get to the Etihad and the 5 - yes 5 Trams stuck in the traffic. That small section where the Tram runs along the main road causes chaos and blocks the entire line making it largely unusable after a game. Why didn’t the Tram line continue up Pollard Street and then go behind the stadium?
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Because originally they lied.
M/cr City Council and Sports England promised there would be a tram to the Commonwealth Games stadium.
There was no intention of building one so no planning went into the route they chose.
Many years later it was built using the same plans that hadn't been thought through.
 
Blue Mist said:
This is what I don't get. All councils seem to be trying to force drivers off the road by many and varied means and yet, no trains on Boxing Day or most weekends, an appalling bus service, (don't let Burnham fool you) and simple sensible solutions, like temporary road closures, not acted on.
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Good point about the bus service. Burnham is going on about the new integrated bus service as if it is something special. The rest of Europe has had one for 50 plus years. We had one in Manchester in the 1960s and 70s. I heard him on the radio this week bragging about it. He is a total bullshitter. Our political leaders think we are all idiots. The total failure of infrastructure is blindingly obvious. We have a new 25,000 arena and 8,000 new seats and nothing has been put in place apart from a few footpaths. Not even a bloody taxi rank.
 
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Blue Mist said:
Because originally they lied.
M/cr City Council and Sports England promised there would be a tram to the Commonwealth Games stadium.
There was no intention of building one so no planning went into the route they chose.
Many years later it was built using the same plans that hadn't been thought through.
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There must have been some limited route planning as the bridge over the tracks on Joe Mercer Way was there when the stadium opened, a mere 12 (?) years before the trams appeared.
 
The nerve of Burnham to be banging on about the great Manchester transportBee network every other week is mental. The transport to City and Co-op ( or lack of it ) is an embarrassment and shame on everybody involved in so many shit decisions.

Shit will eventually hit the fan when some pissed up kid falls in the canal on the way back into town cause there was no transport to get back from a gig. That will be when everybody asks what the fuck were they thinking by doing nothing !
 
East Level 2 said:
There must have been some limited route planning as the bridge over the tracks on Joe Mercer Way was there when the stadium opened, a mere 12 (?) years before the trams appeared.
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My point is, they drew up plans that included a Tram track simply to get the games in Manchester. Knowing they weren't going to provide one, no thought went into the route. If they had they would not have ended up with the shit show by the Mitchell Arms every home game.
 
It is a complete pain in the arse how far the ground is from the centre with shit trams, no trains and no parking anywhere close without paying ridiculous amounts and getting stuck in traffic, especially in winter.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Good point about the bus service. Burnham is going on about the new integrated bus service as if it is something special. The rest of Europe has had one for 50 plus years. We had one in Manchester in the 1960s and 70s. I heard him on the radio this week bragging about it. He is a total bullshitter. Our political leaders think we are all idiots. The total failure of infrastructure is blindingly obvious. We have a new 25,000 arena and 8,000 new seats and nothing has been put in place apart from a few footpaths. Not even a bloody taxi rank.
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As I worked on trams and buses for 30 years all be it in Blackpool I have some idea about transport policies. The bus system worked fairly well as a public service until the mid 80s when that stupid bitch Thatcher decided to deregulate it. As any fool could have forseen popular routes eg Oxford/Wilmslow had buses every minute while some estates lost their services altogether. Blair did nothing to rectify things and Starmer seems to have no interest. Burnham at least is trying to do something all be it at a local level. I wait to see what Bee line achieves. At best things will go back to SELNEC days at worse things will stay the same. Bring back the orange and white buses.
 
Spurs quarter 69 said:
As I worked on trams and buses for 30 years all be it in Blackpool I have some idea about transport policies. The bus system worked fairly well as a public service until the mid 80s when that stupid bitch Thatcher decided to deregulate it. As any fool could have forseen popular routes eg Oxford/Wilmslow had buses every minute while some estates lost their services altogether. Blair did nothing to rectify things and Starmer seems to have no interest. Burnham at least is trying to do something all be it at a local level. I wait to see what Bee line achieves. At best things will go back to SELNEC days at worse things will stay the same. Bring back the orange and white buses.
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Road missing word after Oxford/ Wilmslow.
 
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