“I am the Passenger” is the song by Iggy Pop, in which he rides through the city looking out at the urban scenes. In this video, we ride the trains and the trams around central Manchester and look at the astonishing construction sites in progress on all sides.
0:00 Opening section
1:10 Owens Park Tower demolition
1:35 Ardwick new housing on the old Man City site
1:80 Etihad Stadium extension
2:30 The Fairfax construction site
2:45 Echo Street student towers
3:45 Number 3 Circle Square
4:10 Square Gardens co-living
5:10 Staycity Apartments Deansgate site
5:20 Union co-living towers
6:05 Plot C2 tower Stanley St Salford
6:30 One Victoria – One East One West
7:15 Bankside Colliers Yard Salford
7:30 Vista River Gardens drone shots
8:05 Thorn Court Salford recladding
8:50 Victoria Riverside construction site
9:30 Plot C2 tower Stanley St Salford
9:55 Staycity Apartments closer look
10:55 The Lighthouse, Crown Street
It’s quite a spectacle as you sit by the window, though the train moves fast. I’ve captured the images at 60 frames per second, slowed down to 30fps so we can have a better look at the construction sites.
How will these scenes look in the future when all these projects are completed? Keep watching AidanEyewitness!
Manchester is going through an unbelievable and unprecedented transformation at the moment. More new buildings are appearing than in the previous 2 decades. Many of them are tall. There’s no official definition of a skyscraper, but generally 100 metres is a minimum height, or maybe 200 metres. These skyscrapers are on a smaller scale than those in the US, Canada, Dubai or other parts of the world, but they are still very impressive.
I love to travel by train and tram. There are many impressive views as you travel on rails around Manchester, though some views are blocked by overgrown trees.
All drone footage is by @Cinemaker. Check out his channel.
Listen to the Passenger on YouTube – 64 million views so far. My only criticism: they should have used Berlin for the street footage!
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