Piani incredibili annunciati per costruire una rete sotterranea del centro di Manchester

Surely just extending the tram network would be better, seems like a bit of a waste of money and it’s not even that far walking from end to end!

All bar one of the existing tram routes run through Cornbrook-Deansgate-St Peters Square. It’s a horrendous pinch point that prevents true expansion of the network.

An underground system is long overdue.

Amazing, all we need is a few million to design a logo, hire some nice hotels for big meetings, get some consultants in, and then forget all about it once the funding drys up.

Manchester doesn’t need an underground… They need to fix platforms 13 and 14 at Piccadilly with the cancelled 15 and 16 from the “Northern powerhouse” smoke and mirrors the Tories pedalled years ago.

Pretty much all rail flow through Manchester to link to Liverpool, Lancaster, Scotland, the Lake District, or just Manchester Airport (huge amount of passengers) is crammed through just two platforms that literally ALWAYS have a signal fault or a broken down train or a police incident or a medical emergency…. and it gridlocks the whole lot.

Absolute travesty in its current state. Those two key platforms are barely hanging on to functionality whilst handling most of the rail passengers in and out of the city.

Focus on the damn priorities and get things moving again… Manchester’s internal public transport network is already pretty damn good. Linking northern cities in a functional manner makes actual difference.

surely, they will need a 200 million pound rat tunnel somewhere in this project?

I’d like to consult on a feasibility study for such a rat tunnel.