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

[Corky]

If they really do succeed in stopping the vast majority of people trying to find parking near the ground, a knock on advantage to that would be it should open up the roads for buses and taxis, to be able to whizz back and forth to town in next to no time.

Even though I didn’t use them, I noticed at Everton the other night, a huge fleet of buses parked up on the main road just round the corner from the away end. Presumably all heading back to the city centre after the game.

At other grounds where parking seems to be very restricted, it makes jumping in a taxi much more appealing. Southampton is one that springs to mind. You get a cab in the city centre and virtually the only traffic you encounter is other taxis. At the ground in five minutes.

Hopefully City will be working with bus and taxi firms to get something organised getting people away from the ground a bit more efficiently. Which would in turn take the strain off the tram system a little.

That is the Soccer Bus to lime street and a Mersey Rail station nearby also (Ormskirk line). They stopped doing them before the game in the 1990s, and haven't run every game or season, so you can't be certain it will run as the "save the fuss, get the soccer bus" adverts stopped 20 years ago . They are in the same location for either side having a home game, I upset a couple of drivers by insisting on the adult ticket I paid for and not wanting to be part of a scam.

The big plus is it is a dual carriage way into the City Centre and no one is walking on it. City would need to steward the roads to current buses more attractive, however being further from the City centre drastically cuts down walkers in Liverpool. You can get a bus from County Road easily too there, all traffic is going to the motorway and not a coastal city centre.

 

[berryblue]

If they really do succeed in stopping the vast majority of people trying to find parking near the ground, a knock on advantage to that would be it should open up the roads for buses and taxis, to be able to whizz back and forth to town in next to no time.

Even though I didn’t use them, I noticed at Everton the other night, a huge fleet of buses parked up on the main road just round the corner from the away end. Presumably all heading back to the city centre after the game.

At other grounds where parking seems to be very restricted, it makes jumping in a taxi much more appealing. Southampton is one that springs to mind. You get a cab in the city centre and virtually the only traffic you encounter is other taxis. At the ground in five minutes.

Hopefully City will be working with bus and taxi firms to get something organised getting people away from the ground a bit more efficiently. Which would in turn take the strain off the tram system a little.

Don't think there will be any whizzing down Ashton new Road into the city centre. Last time I caught that bus it took 15 minutes to get to Every Street following the thousands of walkers then hit the traffic in Ancoats.

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

Anybody got a easy to read map of areas just outside these new restrictions where we can park.
Does anyone know if you can park on the roads south of Ashton Old Road?

Monsall/Collyhurst to the North/West of the stadium. Think I will be back on the club car parks if these become my options.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Yes, you will be able to continue to park on the south side of Ashton Old Road, this area is unaffected by the new residents scheme.

Cheers

 

[MCFCTrick]

Yes, you will be able to continue to park on the south side of Ashton Old Road, this area is unaffected by the new residents scheme.

Yet ...

 

[NickyWeaverTheMagician]

Our tram systems must be the only one in the world that sit with the traffic rather than cutting through it, so badly designed!

Whilst I normally get the tram from Ashton for the last couple of games I have ended up just driving. I am tired of the constant lying on the platform with the times after the match. 5 trams towards town the other week before a single double come on the Ashton line.

The new greedy council parking restrictions are just making it hard work when it is not needed.

I unfortunately get the idea that city response will be it is not our problem we don’t control it, when in reality they should make it their problem given they played a part in the coop going up and ground expansion.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Monsall/Collyhurst to the North/West of the stadium. Think I will be back on the club car parks if these become my options.

Bet the club increase those prices significantly as well.

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

Bet the club increase those prices significantly as well.

Wouldn’t surprise me.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Anybody got a easy to read map of areas just outside these new restrictions where we can park.
Does anyone know if you can park on the roads south of Ashton Old Road?

Although a lot of others will now be looking to park there too.

 

[colinthewindowcleaner]

Due to the changes, thought id do my bit and started using the train into Ashburys (from the East) and then a 20 minute walk from the station.
However didnt take long before realising Northern Rail are completely unreliable and after the 3rd time of extensive delays or cancellations and a return journey for a night match leaving me stranded at Ashburys at shortly before midnight on my birthday they can fuckoff and I will never use them again.

Public Transport in the North West is unfit for purpose, yet the clowns in offices at Manchester Town Hall are trying to force us to use it by denying us a viable alternative. I would make said clowns attend a full season of matches at City and catch the public transport home. I wonder how many rain soaked walks from cancelled trains, buses or trams or being crammed into overcrowded carriages pressed up against some n'er do wells armpit it would take before they agree that its wank and needs appropriate investment before making commuters give up their cars.

All they’ve done is make buses visible not viable