Travelling through the city centre today, I noticed that there were several Metrolink staff on the Mosley St site, presumably to direct people since the much-advertised new PID on the corner of Mosley/Parker Streets was showing nothing more informative than three dots and the time. (Although, to be fair, it was the RIGHT time). This has all the ingredients of high farce - imagine someone going from Mosley Street to the Gardens at the behest of the PID, seeing his tram just leaving, legging it over to Market St, seeing his tram just leaving, going back to the Gardens..(repeat until something in your head snaps and you start attacking trams). St Peter's Square is now, of course, the only stop in town served by ALL Altrincham trams.
This just serves to make life a little less convenient, which is how we seem to do things in this country. Where else would they put up with the sheer stupidity that occurs inbound at Cornbrook? Having gone to the bother of putting a large roof on what is a very exposed site, all inbound trams go right to the end of the platform and stop in the open air, a wonderful experience when it's raining (which it does, on occasion, hereabouts). Is it just because they've put the disabled boarding markers where they have? And, if that's the only reason, shouldn't somebody be moving them?
