New car park rules a farce

[jamiecav]

Bridges!! It solves everything and the club can get em sponsored! One at end of joe mercer way over the car park road like on wembley way. Then another at the end near the gas store thing. Cars to exit the normal way but no need to stop the lights as pedestrians can safely cross on the bridge.

 

[Brendan110_0]

The difference between the concerts in the summer and the football is that the majority of people who attended the concerts were probably making their first or certainly an infrequent visit to the Etihad. They will be more likely to follow the instructions given as they dont know any better. It's a bit different for City fans who have been walking that way for a dozen or so years and know that they are being directed a long way. For the record I have followed the instructions at both matches I've been to this season and on both occasions when I've got to the exit by the gas tower there has been a stream of people walking out of there so I'm not bothering next time and I'll just go back to leaving at that point.

ha....me too.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

The 80th minute evacuation is partly a societal reflection and how delay is now an unacceptable inconvenience.
Lots of ways to get away including walking to Town a 10 minute walk away, but people will complain until they get their own monorail.
Been fortunate to go to some of the Worlds great sports events and there are always queues and congestion problems - it's how you accept or deal with that inevitability.
Could transport and flow arrangements be improved - of course, but the exodus is about more than flaws in those systems.
Each to their own, free world and all that but I'd rather watch the full 90+ than be constantly looking at my watch deciding when to dash away and then blaming everything else.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

You need to work on your 'beating the rush' skills.

Yeah, I would suggest yer make yer way to the car park a minute after Gladiola makes his first sub.

Actually, I haven't exited the Blue Car Park better! I was in the middle of pack for the Sunderland game and because I went to watch MCWFC game on Sunday I was nigh on the front row. It did appear at one time that all the cars facing the stadium would have to turn round and exit by the gasometer but I waited a minute or two, literally, and then got out.

 

[Manchester33]

Halve the number of cars? No bloody chance. And we don't have the public transport infrastructure to do it anyway. We've a tram stop right outside the ground but can't stack trams. We've a rail line which could probably carry a couple of passenger services as specials but no station. And I don't know where we stack busses to town but I bet they have to wait for the pedestrians to get out the way before they set off.

All it takes is a little thought really. Between the trams/buses we could reduce a significant amount of people travelling by car. The club could subsidise supporters club coaches so it's free for people to use.

I'm a prime example really. Would happily get a bus/train/met, but all of them are slightly inconvenient for me to use (they all would require a big walk or are too expensive for me). I get to the game about 2 and a half hours early. Get great, well lit street parking for free, probably costs me £2/3 in petrol to travel to and from the game - so why would I pay £5/6 to use public transport that's less convenient? There's no incentive, which is my point, and if there was I'd consider it because the main thing stopping me from contributing to less traffic is price.

 

[wythenshaweblue£££]

I normally park in the asda and it takes me an hour each time to get out. Used to pay private car park down the road from the car garage and that cost me £8 which was no different in traveling time. Half the reason people leave in the 80 minute is probably because of this.

 

[trevorriley]

The 80th minute evacuation is partly a societal reflection and how delay is now an unacceptable inconvenience.
Lots of ways to get away including walking to Town a 10 minute walk away, but people will complain until they get their own monorail.
Been fortunate to go to some of the Worlds great sports events and there are always queues and congestion problems - it's how you accept or deal with that inevitability.
Could transport and flow arrangements be improved - of course, but the exodus is about more than flaws in those systems.
Each to their own, free world and all that but I'd rather watch the full 90+ than be constantly looking at my watch deciding when to dash away and then blaming everything else.

Correct..
Why cant we accept that we are going to a major sport event with over 55k people there, queues are inevitable.
Yes each to their own but if i pay for 90 minutes i watch 90 minutes and face up to the fact that it is a journey home.
Yes there are some exceptions for leaving early, but not 15,000.

On the traffic flow, why every season do the organisers try to direct the flow of people traffic, it never works. each time they try this it makes my journey longer. They run a trial then go back to normal.
Its simple, get the pathetically organised metro link sorted out and if you are that bothered about which direction fans walk build a bridge.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Bridges!! It solves everything and the club can get em sponsored! One at end of joe mercer way over the car park road like on wembley way. Then another at the end near the gas store thing. Cars to exit the normal way but no need to stop the lights as pedestrians can safely cross on the bridge.

The fuckers won't use 'em! They'll still be clambering over the roofs of parked cars to get out! All pedestrians should be made to go on a bus or a tram back to Piccadilly no matter where they want to go, or they should be kept inside the stadium for half an hour while we motorists exit The Etihad Campus safely and quickly.

 

[yeseye]

The fuckers won't use 'em! They'll still be clambering over the roofs of parked cars to get out! All pedestrians should be made to go on a bus or a tram back to Piccadilly no matter where they want to go, or they should be kept inside the stadium for half an hour while we motorists exit The Etihad Campus safely and quickly.

That's a great idea. Bus or tram 30,000+ into Piccadilly every Saturday evening!

 

[Vic]

Halve the number of cars? No bloody chance. And we don't have the public transport infrastructure to do it anyway. We've a tram stop right outside the ground but can't stack trams. We've a rail line which could probably carry a couple of passenger services as specials but no station. And I don't know where we stack busses to town but I bet they have to wait for the pedestrians to get out the way before they set off.

7 or 8 buses waiting on Ashton New Road - each goes as soon as it's full, even through the milling crowd.

Why can't they just leave things as they were. Didn't they try this early last season or the season before that, and they then went back to how it was, with the fans walking down Joe Mercer way and across the footpath and out at the end close to, Bradford fire station. However to make matters worse when the supporters go towards Bradford fire station after the game now, by going down Alan Touring Way they are then stopped by the Stewards while they let all the cars go 1st, this is o.k. while it is dry, however when it is in the middle of winter and it is chucking it down with rain, and freezing cold, it does not help the supporters whose cars are on other car parks.
I am thinking of those supporters who have mobility problems like myself, who need to get to the car by the shortest root possible. The club seems to be gearing itself to the supporters who have a larger disposable income, i.e. those wiling to spend over £1500+ for there season ticket.

The really posh cars in the posh car parks near the main CB entrance have to wait the longest to get out, but most of them are in the corporate areas so not bothered

They previously tried barriers to allow pedestrians and cars out at gate 1 (north end of car park) but it caused pedestrian congestion (and they still had to cut across the cars when they got to Alan Turing Way).

Whatever anyone thinks car users have as much right as pedestrians to get out as quickly as possible. I live an hour away from the ground and pick up my mate on the way and that takes another half an hour but to listen to some on here you'd think we have no rights at all. I suppose its fine for us to sit in our nice warm cars as you put it and wait whilst all the pedestrians go first. Fair enough if you think that's fair, I don't.

I bet you're against bus lanes too. Cars leaving the car park already delay other people (those already on the roads); it's a privilege that the club is allowed to control lights to try and get people away from the stadium quicker at the expense of road users nothing to do with the match (e.g. Asda customers). It will probably be in tfgm policy somewhere for the transport hierarchy: pedestrians, cyclists, buses/trains, taxis, multiple occupancy cars, single occupancy cars well down the list.