As more and more new housing developments are built around Eastlands, the parking situation will only get worse.
There are housing and apartments under construction near Ashburys Train Station. That’s where I normally park.
Manchester’s population is booming, especially in the city centre and in the outer fringes of the city centre into the inner suburbs.
It’s boomed too much, too quickly for the Council/govt to keep up with. There are currently too many people living in Manchester for what it can cope with.
Public transport isn’t fit for the conurbation population size, roads are busy all day and ridiculously gridlocked (worse than it should be) in the mornings and evenings, there aren’t even enough secondary school places for all children and some schools have been made to take on more kids than they’re supposed to be subscribed… as you’ve previously mentioned in this thread and we’ve spoken about briefly on this site recently, the Council cannot keep up with the litter situation either.
I said the word ‘drastically’ in an earlier post on this thread, but Manchester does need to
drastically improve its public transport. Metrolink is too slow because every line comes through the city centre so slows down to walking pace on the roads of Town. Anything that happens on any line and all lines are affected.
Post-games at the Etihad you can wait close to 30 minutes once you get to the platform before a Met to Town shows up. That’s just pathetic!
In this yellow area here^ you can stack around three double units of Mets during the second half of the game and have them ready for the final whistle. Then for another half an hour or so, send another Met in between every Ashton-bound Met and have them turn back to head to Town as well.
Here’s a close-up of the yellow section:
See the third run-off Met line between the main lines?
The club should buy a fleet of buses and have them rolling from Piccadilly and Victoria stations pre-and post-game. Free if you have a match ticket. Our club are sitting at the top of the Deloitte revenue table, spend some of it on getting the fans to-and-from the stadium!