Don't think it affects trams though?
While I understand the operational benefits of closing it permanently, I don't support that from a passenger's point of view. It'd be better to gain the capacity "Tube style" by stopping everything there, as it's the nearest station for huge swathes of the city centre.
Yes, the Conservatives must be pretty miffed.The Metrolink was severely disrupted today because of people not realising that the time for deciding the Government for the next 5 years was on June 8th and their candidate/party didn't win.
The Metrolink was severely disrupted today because of people not realising that the time for deciding the Government for the next 5 years was on June 8th and their candidate/party didn't win.
3 wheelchair users blocking the tracks
3 wheelchair users blocking the tracks
Sorry?
This may sound authoritarian but if it was up to me I would make it a specific criminal offence with a mandatory prison sentence to protest in any transport location (Train station, airport, bus station, seaport ect). This kind of protest causes massive amounts of and the safety aspects of it such as rowdy people shuffling around in a place with a live 3rd rail causes issues meaning stations have to be closed and its just too much disruption.
I'd make it a specific criminal offence to hold a conference for a desperately unpopular farce of a party in the middle of major city. Horses for courses I guess
I thought the Lib Dems had had their party conference.
They did. In Bournemouth. They're really more not-popular rather than unpopular though. Could probably have safely fitted the entire conference and any associated protesters into the Midland hotel without disturbing the other guests.
The Metrolink was severely disrupted today because of people not realising that the time for deciding the Government for the next 5 years was on June 8th and their candidate/party didn't win.
This may sound authoritarian but if it was up to me I would make it a specific criminal offence with a mandatory prison sentence to protest in any transport location (Train station, airport, bus station, seaport ect). This kind of protest causes massive amounts of and the safety aspects of it such as rowdy people shuffling around in a place with a live 3rd rail causes issues meaning stations have to be closed and its just too much disruption.
100% of the population can say they didn't vote for a Conservative government which is propped up by the DUP, which is what we currently have. The Conservatives and DUP didn't even get 50% of the public vote between them.
It was interesting to hear on a BBC program recently that many Northern Irish voters who voted for the DUP actually hate the party and only voted for them because they hate Sinn Fein even more.
So that doesn't have an relevance to yesterday's protests in Manchester, which were not near Deansgate station - the police closed it due it being a small station and a very high number of people expected to arrive in Manchester. While Metrolink runs along the streets in central Manchester just like a bus, the street is not exclusively for Metrolink it's for other road users to share with Metrolink. There's also no third rail in Manchester.
There were protests blocking the tracks on the tramway today which caused severe disruption.
Back in 2015 when the conference was also in Manchester there were also protests or attempted protests at Manchester Piccadilly station and again Deansgate had to be closed causing massive disruption to people who have no interest in politics.
This may sound authoritarian but if it was up to me I would make it a specific criminal offence with a mandatory prison sentence to protest in any transport location (Train station, airport, bus station, seaport ect). This kind of protest causes massive amounts of and the safety aspects of it such as rowdy people shuffling around in a place with a live 3rd rail causes issues meaning stations have to be closed and its just too much disruption.
3 wheelchair users blocking the tracks