More trams

[willipp]

I stayed til the end in the south stand, from leaving my standing position (I'm in 115) to getting home, took me just under 5 hours 30 minutes.

Was great bumping into Saints fans at the services on the way home though ;o)

What a difference that goal made to your journey home. Every credit for that though, that’s some trek on a cold Wednesday night.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Sort out blue car park.....we left early also or it takes one hour to get off car park.....this stadium has out grown local infra structure.....what was its capacity for common wealth games....that was probably about its ideal maximum for ease of exit or entry.
Ground expansion will need to go hand in hand with something or it could. Take two hours to clear car park !

You should leave after the final whistle, as I do. I park on blue car park and it has never taken me an hour to get off.

 

[stonerblue]

How you do that every week is beyond me. Well done mate.

And i bet he had shorts on...

 

[Silvas' left eyebrow]

If there was more trams , wouldn’t people be tempted to do a kind of park and ride - drive to tram stop , park up then jump on a tram . I know it’s free parking at Alty station and the tram ticket is about the same as you’d pay for parking near the ground . Gotta be quicker getting tram back to Alty rather than driving there after a match

Good point. Nearer home Lancaster even manage an excellent park and ride

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

The problem is this going back to town all available transport use the same road.

The thousands of fans who walk back to town use the road

The buses taking fans to town use the same road as the fans walking into town

Then the trams going back to town/altrincham use the same roads that the buses use and the fans walking use

The cars going that way use the same road as the fans walking, the buses and the trams

I wonder why it’s slow?

 

[rushts]

Park and fly...couple of heli pads next to the stadium. We're rich enough...;-)

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

I along with three other season ticket holders got home at 3-45am, met Soton fans on the way home all of whom apologized for their teams deliberate time wasting . At Brighton there's a free public bus and rail service within a ten mile area of the ground and there's plenty of transport layed on to get you away from the ground in all directions, City have enough money to put this service on for us fans .don't they?
Again at Brighton the buses and trains run for two and half hours after the final whistle so, those who stay and have a drink have no worries getting away either.

That’s down south we all know down south you get 2000000000 times more spent on public transport than us northerners. We are expected to walk uphill and do rolly poly downhill to get there and pay for privilege. I bet those free buses have heaters and WiFi too, possibly even a loo.

 

[dickie davies]

I live in Northwich. I stayed to applaud the players off, walked to the car,got to the M60 @10.22 and was home @10.55

 

[blue by birth]

Stayed till the end last night in the Family Stand. From leaving my seat to getting home took 1 hour and I live 30 miles from the City Centre. Buzzing all the way home. If I'd have left 5 mins earlier I'd have felt robbed.

I always stay till the end and am in SS3 and it always takes me over an hour to get home and I only live in Haughton Green.
By time I get out of the ground and get to the tram then wait for bloody tram then usually half an hour to Ashton, get picked up in Ashton and back home it's over an hour.
The teams are usually single units and absolutely hammered but credit to Metrolink on weds as they had a double unit to Ashton..happy days.
But like you mate I would have been gutted if I had missed a last minute winner...mind you plenty did.
The traffic around the ground is terrible and it is worse at night games even though people leave early.

 

[pirate]

We need a tram depot near the ground where they can be stacked up.

wont that be dangerous in high winds?

better to line them up surely?

 

[UUJblue]

The problem is this going back to town all available transport use the same road.

The thousands of fans who walk back to town use the road

The buses taking fans to town use the same road as the fans walking into town

Then the trams going back to town/altrincham use the same roads that the buses use and the fans walking use

The cars going that way use the same road as the fans walking, the buses and the trams

I wonder why it’s slow?

This a good point, one way in and out for all. In terms of the tram im surprised they didnt just extend the tunnel out of Piccadilly all the way to Holt town.

 

[ell]

Honestly I think a lot of them now just do it by habit and its nothing to do with the traffic etc.

No matter what day, what time. or how the game is going, from 75minutes onwards people start leaving, and its a domino effect once the first person goes they all start to do it.

Its a shame these people are missing out on goals but its their choice leave them to it.

 

[halfmist]

Honestly I think a lot of them now just do it by habit and its nothing to do with the traffic etc.

No matter what day, what time. or how the game is going, from 75minutes onwards people start leaving, and its a domino effect once the first person goes they all start to do it.

Its a shame these people are missing out on goals but its their choice leave them to it.

Yes . a bit like at a shit party. Who dares to make the first move to leave then results in a stampede.
The worst thing is those that stand up to leave and then take ages saying their goodbyes to all around them.

 

[cadds92]

The tram issue going home is an issue.

I queued up after the game a few years ago and knew then I wouldn't be doing it again.

30 minutes to an hour queuing in the freezing cold isn't for me so now I just walk into town - usually to Deansgate as the trams incoming from the Etihad are still massively crammed by the time I reach Piccadilly Gardens or St Peters Square - which takes me about half an hour/ 40 minutes to do so.

At least with me walking I warm up, but either way the tram situation needs improving I feel.

 

[kev20971]

I don't agree with the club helping to pay for extra transport on match days . The problem lies with the people and way it's run. The metro station ok , but it's not enough. There's a rail line that runs to the west of the stadium, why not have a match day station on that ? Also why do all the match buses run in to Manchester, the old match buses at Maine Road went all over Manchester and surrounding towns.

 

[Bilboblue]

And i bet he had shorts on...

I did hahaha!

 

[bennyboy]

Sadly the trams journeys are always going to be a nightmare due to packing as much folk on as possible.
This will happen no matter how many trams run.
If there was an accident,health and safety would have a field day.

 

[stonerblue]

I did hahaha!

fuckin knew it you nutter..

you there sunday?

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Metrolink is still an abysmal service not fit for purpose.

 

[blueparrot]

I stayed til the end in the south stand, from leaving my standing position (I'm in 115) to getting home, took me just under 5 hours 30 minutes.

Was great bumping into Saints fans at the services on the way home though ;o)

Well done,especially for a mid weeker, I've always thought though the greater the distances we travel the less difference 1/2 an hour saved by leaving early makes. Just the 3 1/2 hours for me. It always seems to me the locals and those that go every week are the ones leaving early, can tell because they usually stand in the way saying their good byes. I assume you aren't an every game regular, if you are even better done..
As for transport and parking I would guess it will form part of the campus consultation going on.