Man City vs Man Utd: Manchester derby travel advice

The 2 footballing halves of town will conflict this weekend as Manchester Metropolis and Manchester United meet in the Manchester derby.

The 2 arch-rivals meet on the Etihad Stadium on Sunday (2 October) with a 2pm kick off.

Transport bosses have now issued journey recommendation for the legions of supporters of each the crimson and blue sides of Manchester who shall be heading to the bottom for the derby.

Right here’s what it’s worthwhile to find out about attending to the Etihad on Sunday.

In its official journey recommendation Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) says a quick service runs on to Etihad Campus, the devoted tram cease for the stadium which is situated on the Ashton line.

Metropolis centre Metrolink stops and providers on the Ashton line shall be working no less than one tram each 12 minutes and shall be busier than regular previous to kick-off. Queues are to be anticipated and journeys could take longer than normal.

There may be additionally work going down on the Metrolink community this weekend, with no providers between Eccles and MediaCityUK. Substitute buses shall be in use protecting the stops affected.

After the sport, trams is not going to serve Holt City and Velopark till crowds have cleared from the Etihad Campus cease.

Passengers are additionally inspired to pay by way of contactless wherever doable to hurry up the ticket shopping for course of and shorten queues on the ticket machines.

TfGM says that followers who do have to drive to the match ought to think about using one of many Park and Ride sites the place you possibly can depart the automobile totally free after which full the journey to the stadium on the tram.

Two Park and Experience websites are conveniently situated near M60 Junction 23. These are:

From these stops the journey time to the stadium is lower than 25 minutes.

The match can be anticipated to impact site visitors ranges across the stadium and town centre.

Street customers travelling alongside Ashton New Street and Alan Turing Method ought to add roughly 20 minutes additional time to their journeys from noon till kick-off after which for 2 hours after the match ends.

Anybody travelling from the west of town by way of Hyde Street ought to anticipate journeys to take 25 minutes longer than regular, whereas the interior ring street (particularly the Mancunian Method) will see larger volumes of site visitors earlier than and after the sport, extending journey occasions by round 10 minutes.

As well as on Sunday morning a part of the A6 in Ardwick is closed for a climate change action day run by a local people group. Diversions shall be in place and journeys ought to take 5 to 10 minutes longer than regular.

The 216 is essentially the most frequent service to the bottom on matchdays and it runs from the north facet of Piccadilly Gardens to the stadium.

The 53, 76, 217, 219, 230 and 231 bus providers additionally serve the Etihad Stadium, most inside a brief stroll of the bottom.

Congestion across the Etihad can add as much as 20 minutes to bus journey occasions, which followers ought to bear in mind when planning their journeys.

On the finish of the sport, shuttle buses lined up exterior the South Stand will convey followers again into town centre.

TransPennine Express has mentioned its trains shall be beginning later and stopping sooner than regular and working to a revised timetable on Sunday.

Will probably be a lot the identical state of affairs at Northern, which shall be working no trains in any respect on Saturday resulting from employees taking industrial motion.

Reviews on social media say there are additionally issues with intercity providers to Manchester from cities like London on Sunday. Practice web sites are displaying the routes for the day as being ‘offered out’, though you possibly can nonetheless stroll up on the day and buy a return ticket to get on board a practice.

TfGM is recommending any followers who reside inside a 30-minute stroll of the Etihad go to the match on foot.

There’s a secure, well-lit and signposted strolling route from Manchester Piccadilly station to the stadium. Observe the Etihad Campus banners and Metropolis Hyperlink indicators to the bottom and you have to be there inside roughly 25 minutes.