AEROTROPOLIS EMEA PRESENTATIONS - Day 2

1. AIRPORT CITY
MANCHESTER
CONNECTIVITY
AEROTROPOLIS EMEA
10 JULY 2014
JOHN TWIGG –
PLANNING DIRECTOR M.A.G.

2. 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

3.  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

4. THE BEST CONNECTED PLACE
T2T3
T1
Statio
n
M56

5. 5
CONNECTIVITY
ON ALL
LEVELS

6. 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

7. REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY
 100 rail destinations
 9 trains an hour to Manchester
 150 coach destinations
 12 minute frequency Metrolink trams
 24 hour bus & rail services

8. 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

9. 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

10. HS2 – STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY

11. 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

12. 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