To get into Manchester today

 

 

No communication until you get down the slip road

 

Uncaring cunts

Manchester traffic this week has been utterly, utterly ridiculous

 

Tried the train yesterday

 

Shite service

Tried the train yesterday

 

Shite service

 

When I've used it I find if you get on at Blackrod you usually get a seat, lucky if you do at Htown, Lostock & Bolton, no chance.

Left work at bang on 6 yesterday, was in Radders on the Metro by 6.35.

Tried the train yesterday

 

Shite service

I've been on it yesterday and today

 

Yesterday cancellations galore going home

 

This morning the 7:03am was so busy that it was standing all the way through the carriage and no more room a good 30 mins from Manchester so a few stops folk couldn't get on at

 

It's absolutely ludicrous

I've been on it yesterday and today

 

Yesterday cancellations galore going home

 

This morning the 7:03am was so busy that it was standing all the way through the carriage and no more room a good 30 mins from Manchester so a few stops folk couldn't get on at

 

It's absolutely ludicrous

 

But you got a seat.

I've been on it yesterday and today

 

Yesterday cancellations galore going home

 

This morning the 7:03am was so busy that it was standing all the way through the carriage and no more room a good 30 mins from Manchester so a few stops folk couldn't get on at

 

It's absolutely ludicrous

 

Eventually, someone will die of a heart attack or one of these cattle trucks will break down/derail and people will be stuck like insects. That's what it will take for something to be done about it.

 

Its a fucking disgrace and makes my piss boil.

 

Coaches/cars/planes all have strict regulations about passengers being sat down/allocated a seat as mandatory. Yet trains are allowed to move around in conditions that Nazis would be ashamed of.

The trams have ramped up capacity as we approach Xmas. Anyone out shopping who decides to catch a rush hour tram/train/bus is a twat, of course. Folk will fight their way onto a packed carriage when there's a nearly empty one right behind it. Thick Manc twats.

My train home now is standing room only too

 

Didn't get a seat this time Traf

 

I may have got one this morning but it's mental that as far out as Marple and then every station after that on the way in have zero chance of a seat

 

2 carriages only hardly helps

I'm ok on the tram as I get on at the first stop, but from east didsbury to town it's standing room only by chorlton, same on the way back though figured out better chance of a seat if getting on a shudehill as again, by market street you're lucky if you get a seat

 

and if i don't leave early enough in the morning, i.e. before 7.30 if not earlier, it takes 25 mins plus to go 3 miles

 

don't even consider the train for the reasons jules is saying

 

doesn't matter how you do it, commuting these days is a cunt, unless you get up early and work late

I'm out at 5.30am on a Monday morning to get tontelford before 8am.

 

If I set off after 6am it's gone 9 before I get there, due entirely to the NW Manchester traffic jams.

Awful this morning

I drove in to be in spinning fields late morning

 

Took about 60 minutes including finding a car park

 

I imagine you add an hour if you want to there at 830/9

Travel news on heart FM just took 6 minutes to read out

Lostock residents who work in Manchester or Salford have one of the worst journeys to work in the country.  The M61 (between Junctions 2 and 3) is the 5^th slowest stretch of motorway in the UK.  Manchester is the 11^th worst city in Europe for congestion, beating Paris, Bonn, Frankfurt and Munich.  Although London and Brussels are worse, they both have more viable rail options than does Manchester.

Edited December 8, 20169 yr by boltondiver

 

Lostock residents who work in Manchester or Salford have one of the worst journeys to work in the country.  The M61 (between Junctions 2 and 3) is the 5^th slowest stretch of motorway in the UK.  Manchester is the 11^th worst city in Europe for congestion, beating Paris, Bonn, Frankfurt and Munich.  Although London and Brussels are worse, they both have more viable rail options than does Manchester.

 

I dont have to get the train often to Manchester of a week but when I do I get to thinking. The car parks at Blackrod, Horwich & Adlington, they're always full, but how many of those are cunts coming from Chorley & Preston parking up to get a cheaper fare due to the boundary? Anyway, anyone who has to get on the train at Bolton, I do feel sorry for the journey they have to suffer.

Yon M61 was only tailed back to Cowyed City when I used it, I guess it gets worse.

 

Just rolling into Victoria, left the house at 9.20. Fuck the train, no brainer.

Do you get a car park space at Radcliffe at that time?

Do you get a car park space at Radcliffe at that time?

Not a chance, park 2 minutes away down the side of a quiet residential street, not outside anyone's house.

Not a chance, park 2 minutes away down the side of a quiet residential street, not outside anyone's house.

Aye. Could do with another two or three tiers on it really.

No idea why they only added one tier. However it takes cars off the streets, which means I can park up easily.

It seems busier than when it was just ground level.

used the train yesterday to go in to Manchester in the aftenoon from Htown yesterday. Thing finished at 9pm (thanks again FD, NB you would have loved it, second row, almoast within mauling distance). Last train before a replacement bus service taking twice as long kicked in was 9:20pm from the opposite side of town. Cunts. Ended up getting off oa cowyed city. 2 carriages rammed full by the time it got to deansgate from Picc and oxford road. Cunts.  I'll drive next time

The replacement bus is fine at night

 

As far as Bolton, anyway

 

Dunno about the bit to Horwich but I got a taxi from Bolton to here

Trains have been fooked for ages

 

Proper pisses me off

Makes my fucking piss boil.

 

I had what I would describe as a fairly clear run from the Thelwall Viaduct to Horwich tonight just after 5.

 

Still took an hour, yet I was chuffed with that. That's where we're at with this.

 

Don't know who is ultimately responsible for the public transport options but they want fucking dead hard with something that will leave their arsehole looking a popped balloon.

Edited December 8, 20169 yr by Spider