Ta Biggles



They are brilliant pictures, would have thought the club would be interested in putting them on the fishal site for more fans to see.

Nice work BartonFlyer.

Great pics Mr Flyer , ta very much .

Still a hell of a lot of work still needed to finish that main stand

stadium progressing very nicley cant wait to visit it next year

Went out for a ride yesterday and got my first real up close look at the new site and my fears about the smaller stands were misplaced as they look fine, think if they were all the same height as the main one Salford councol would have a delightful white elephant on it's hands.

Are there any plans do we know to increase buses to the venue on match days? think the obvious route would be from Eccles interchange direct to the ground and then return afterwards

Did'nt realise that the size of the area around it was as big also.

A couple of pointers for pre match drinks, there was a church based social slub on the A57 near the motorway round about that looked like a suitable venue and if you were to drink at either The Kings Head or the Rock the path down the canal would make the ground only a 15/20 minute walk away.

The said Social club is St Michaels, cheap beer, but it also gets filled with not rights off Brookhouse estate.

A few people have mentioned on this thread about the new stadium location offering excellent exposure from the motorway compared to the backstreets of Weaste. With this in mind I did some searching on Google to see how the M60 compares to others in terms of traffic volume and this is what I found. An average of 43.8 million vehicle journeys a year!



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I have today heard off a very reliable source that there will be a harvester pub going up on site next year which will be very useful for a pre match bevvie !

Hardly.
The first signs of structural work were only in late Feb. Four months on and it's well under way. No problems envisaged whatsoever

I heard the fitting out is on schedule to start in September.

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The ' Mechanno ' side moves along fairly quickly , its all the fiddly stuff

Doubt it will be up and ready for the start in the new ground.

The real pity for me is that the Weathers next to the ski slope is on the wrong side of the canal as that would be a brilliant place pre match.

The Applewood Farm in Astley was recently thrown up in under 4 months, and it's a fair old size.

As much as anything else I'd think the road infrastructure would be inplace to late and what about permision for liceenses and what have you.

Would be a good think but maybe a little on the small side for a big rugby crowd?

A one-room bar will be fine for us then!

It's ok I'll nip over to Costco and buy a load of beer then sell it out of my boot. It'll be the best car boot sale ever seen in salford

I read a couple of months back that the 3-year construction of Port Salford was due to start in August. With this in mind does anyone know when the new roads linking the site to the M60 is due to start and finish?

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Highway improvements to Junction 11 of the M60 and elsewhere between Junctions 11 and 12, comprising widening to four lanes northbound.
A new link road (WGIS) providing access from Liverpool Road (A57) to Trafford Way and Junction 10 on the M60, via a new road and a new low level bridge crossing the MSC, to the east of the existing motorway crossing at Barton Bridge, incorporating bus, pedestrian and cycle access and possible future Metrolink route.

A link road running parallel with the M60 and a two-way link between the A57 west of Peel Green, Trafford Way and junction 10 of the M60 and closure of the existing off-slip at Junction 11 northbound. This is to be provided in two separate phases.

A planning application has also been submitted to Trafford MBC for parts of the WGIS works to the south of the Manchester Ship Canal which falls within their jurisdiction. Trafford approved that application on 18th February 2009.

Just been having a search around on the internet;

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That place looks absolutely huge!

Wonder if it could maybe have a detrimental effect on the local area, in terms of traffic, although I've heard much of it is going to be rail-based.

Drove over Barton bridge last week and couldn't believe how far ahead this project is. Let's hope Salford's stadium move will generate the kind of results for the club that Warrington's has.

If it is rail based would there any passenger facilities as that would make getting to the ground much easier for a lot more fans both Salford and from down the Cheshire corridor.

I've just noticed the multi storey building in the drawing (Located at the entrance to the stadium off the A57). I wonder if this could be offices for the Port or a new hotel perhaps? I'd have thought that building was too high for the flight path with it being so close to the airport?

Something it doesn't show in the drawing is the 12 lanes of rail track sidings, parallel to the ship canal at the back of the stadium.

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Found this image (Peel document online) showing an artists impression of the Stadium, Port Salford, Retail Units and the future roads.

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Huge Plans in the area

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A rather poor quality mobile phone image taken from a moving car this morning: