AIRPORT CITY MANCHESTER CONNECTIVITY
AEROTROPOLIS EMEA
10 JULY 2014
JOHN TWIGG – PLANNING DIRECTOR M.A.G.
NORTH WEST TRANSPORT FIRSTS
Manchester Ship Canal 1894
Manchester – Liverpool railway 1830
Preston by pass (M6) 1958
Light rail (Metrolink) 1999
Manchester Airport 2nd runway 2001
A new economic hub : GM’s Enterprise Zone
4m sq ft of mixed use employment – logistics, offices, advanced manufacturing, bio-medical, hotels, support uses
£650m development over 10 years
Up to 15,000 new jobs – focused on local people
Sustainable, high quality development
Crucially ….. founded on transport connections – air, road, rail, tram, bus
RECOVERY & REGENERATION : AIRPORT CITY
THE BEST CONNECTED PLACE
T2 T3 T1
Station
M56
5
CONNECTIVITY ON ALL LEVELS
GATEWAY TO THE WORLD
21m passengers; 200 destinations; 100+ airlines
150,000 tonnes of freight
7 flights a day to Middle East
Washington, Moscow, Berlin, Lisbon, Cairo now served
Flybe hub and code share
New route to China
REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY
100 rail destinations
9 trains an hour to Manchester
150 coach destinations
12 minute frequency Metrolink trams
24 hour bus & rail services
TRANSPORT INVESTMENT
• The Station – expansion to deal with growth & Airport City opportunity
• £300m Metrolink extension to Airport – opens 2014
• Northern Hub - £600m rail investment package including 4th Airport platform
• High Speed Rail (HS2) - £32.7bn • £290m Airport - A6 link road – opens
2017 • £27m Airport City road & infrastructure
HS2 OPPORTUNITY Aviation Opportunity - Extended catchment area for Manchester Air gateway for Northern Britain ; the only 2 runway airport outside London;
Capacity for 50 m passengers approved, and without major planning constraint
20m people within 2 hours travel time; excellent connectivity
Transport Opportunity - Multi modal gateway – 1 hour to London Access to M56 and motorway network
Links to existing rail, bus and coach interchange at the Airport
Western extension of Metrolink to link HS2 & development sites
Economic Opportunity - Catalyst for further growth Links to Airport City - £690m development; 15,000 jobs
Supports wider Enterprise Zone & Wythenshawe regeneration
Reinforces the Airport’s wider economic impact; attraction for inward investment & tourism Serves the broader South Manchester – North Cheshire business market
HS2 – STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY
ACCESS AND WIDER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
By 2020 our transport infrastructure will be almost fully developed
J6 Improved
M56 widening
Runger Lane dualling
Ringway Road diversion
Ringway Road West dualling and Airport – A6 link road
Metrolink
Northern Hub and 4th rail platform
World Logistics
Hub
HS2
MANCHESTER
“For Manchester is the place where people do things...... 'Don't talk about what you are going to do, do it.' That is the Manchester habit”
Judge Parry, 1912