The End of on Street Parking within walking distance of the Etihad

M Gaudino said:
Lads used to have a season ticket and park on pollard street but now you cant.

am excited to be going to the burnley game and taking my kids but got to pick my son up at 4pm in Salford from a kids party.

options appear to be -

drive to game (although i cant find any parking available). not sure what street you can now park on but would rather not have a massive walk anyway with my 2 kids

drive to cornbrook, find a parking spot and tram it.

drive across manchester to Ashton metrolinks and park and ride (dont know if this fills up on match days fairly early?)

any other advice welcome - live in south manchester
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Drive over to the Brooklands Metro Stop, if you are in luck then you might catch a tram straight to the ground, or need to change at Cornbrook. Alternatively try the Sale Water Park stop, good sized P&R and again a change at Cornbrook required.
 
Northerndave said:
Drive over to the Brooklands Metro Stop, if you are in luck then you might catch a tram straight to the ground, or need to change at Cornbrook. Alternatively try the Sale Water Park stop, good sized P&R and again a change at Cornbrook required.
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is that really the best solution? i live by Sale Water Park/Brooklands so would be 20mins home, park up and a bit of a rush
 
i looked at salford as will be over that way and looks like Ladywell has a decent sized park and ride - any forummers go that way and would i be ok for getting a spot at 4:15 ish?

Some of the park and rides in south manchester fill up on match days
 
M Gaudino said:
i looked at salford as will be over that way and looks like Ladywell has a decent sized park and ride - any forummers go that way and would i be ok for getting a spot at 4:15 ish?

Some of the park and rides in south manchester fill up on match days
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Used it for the odd local away game and there was a reasonable amount of space, can't see it being full for City at that time with shoppers starting to leave.
 
Vic said:
The club don't seem to be against. I presume there's a planning condition for the Arena to promote "active travel" - but this is stick and no carrot.
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As partners woth the council and commited to more enviromentally friendly transport methods I also doubt the club have put up much opposition, but I think this is more MCC led than City related.


A lot of the surrounding old social housing were designed not to be very car friendly with many cul-de-sacs in design with limited room or spaces and a few housholds with two cars can pretty much fill up a close.

My parent don't have a car but outside me mams daIly is a second car from a neighbour cross the next street as they cannot park it outside theirs as the house either side have 2 cars and only 5 can fit in the spaces.

On a matchday my uncle parks up using the guest pass but if he wants to park at the door needs to arrive before this fella gets back form work and parks.up, many residents bemoaned the excess cars pre event parking so can see why it came into place, but their house is literally across from the mini comms and necessary on a match day (they are not in favour of it being all day every day as proposed).


Agree though don't see why the exclusion zone is being moved so much further out to practically town
 
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Vic said:
You obviously live somewhere with decent public transport.
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I moved here deliberately because of the public transport links. Since I moved here they have got better. Million of mancunions are close to train, bus or tram. The tram is half an hour walk away or I can get a bus. Once I am on the tram I can go to most of Manchester. If the journey to where I am actually going is to far from the tram stop I get a taxi.
 
M Gaudino said:
Lads used to have a season ticket and park on pollard street but now you cant.

am excited to be going to the burnley game and taking my kids but got to pick my son up at 4pm in Salford from a kids party.

options appear to be -

drive to game (although i cant find any parking available). not sure what street you can now park on but would rather not have a massive walk anyway with my 2 kids

drive to cornbrook, find a parking spot and tram it.

drive across manchester to Ashton metrolinks and park and ride (dont know if this fills up on match days fairly early?)

any other advice welcome - live in south manchester
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Have a look at https://www.yourparkingspace.co.uk/ they have spaces less than a 10 minute walk to the ground behind the athletics stadium
 
M Gaudino said:
Lads used to have a season ticket and park on pollard street but now you cant.

am excited to be going to the burnley game and taking my kids but got to pick my son up at 4pm in Salford from a kids party.

options appear to be -

drive to game (although i cant find any parking available). not sure what street you can now park on but would rather not have a massive walk anyway with my 2 kids

drive to cornbrook, find a parking spot and tram it.

drive across manchester to Ashton metrolinks and park and ride (dont know if this fills up on match days fairly early?)

any other advice welcome - live in south manchester
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There are a number of pop-up car parks on Ashton Old Road which are about 10-15 mins walk from the stadium and you should be able to get into one of those if leaving Salford around 4pm.
 
M Gaudino said:
is that really the best solution? i live by Sale Water Park/Brooklands so would be 20mins home, park up and a bit of a rush
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There are a couple of park and rides in the Salford / Prestwich area so you save time before the match, but after the game you have to get back to Salford and then drive home, so just longer on the back end

Other option is to park near Picc station and try the crush at the Met stop to get on, but you wanted to avoid walking?
 
kippax_blueboy said:
I moved here deliberately because of the public transport links. Since I moved here they have got better. Million of mancunions are close to train, bus or tram. The tram is half an hour walk away or I can get a bus. Once I am on the tram I can go to most of Manchester. If the journey to where I am actually going is to far from the tram stop I get a taxi.
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Which is great, if you, like me, can walk 30 mins to a tram stop. Many can't and as our fanbase is top heavy with FOCs I bet thousands would struggle.

Also on a typical Manc day, 30 mins of trudging through the rain to steam on a packed tram is far from appealing.
 
Northerndave said:
There are a couple of park and rides in the Salford / Prestwich area so you save time before the match, but after the game you have to get back to Salford and then drive home, so just longer on the back end

Other option is to park near Picc station and try the crush at the Met stop to get on, but you wanted to avoid walking?
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dont mind a walk its just the risk of not being able to find a spot. there is a car park near picadilly i suppose for not too much and could jump on the crush at the gardens..

think ive decided to try ladywell in salford and met over although the website says its takes 45 minutes?!
 
M Gaudino said:
dont mind a walk its just the risk of not being able to find a spot. there is a car park near picadilly i suppose for not too much and could jump on the crush at the gardens..

think ive decided to try ladywell in salford and met over although the website says its takes 45 minutes?!
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I don’t drive so can’t be sure but Ladywell park and ride never looks full when I pass it at weekends. Like you say, it does take a while though. It crawls through Salford Quays and goes in and out of Media City. Once you get to Pomona it’s pretty quick the rest of the way to the ground though.
 
M Gaudino said:
dont mind a walk its just the risk of not being able to find a spot. there is a car park near picadilly i suppose for not too much and could jump on the crush at the gardens..

think ive decided to try ladywell in salford and met over although the website says its takes 45 minutes?!
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Since they increased the price on the car park behind Piccadilly (st Andrews??) To about £4.50 I've seen it with plenty of spaces even 15 mins before kickoff when passing it on the team.

Other option is to park at St Mary's, or Vermilion near the gasholders
 
M Gaudino said:
dont mind a walk its just the risk of not being able to find a spot. there is a car park near picadilly i suppose for not too much and could jump on the crush at the gardens..

think ive decided to try ladywell in salford and met over although the website says its takes 45 minutes?!
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Depends where you are in Salford but the new P&R at Parkway on the Trafford Park line would be better for getting back to south Manchester. PM if you want another "unofficial" option.
 
Does anyone park at the corner shop pub ? The school next door used to do parking (and there's masses of space) then it just stopped, is it still like that ?
 
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