It's a warm May day in 2038, around 5:40pm. You've just finished work in MediaCity and you need to meet some friends in town by 6pm.

You could use Metrolink, but there are 100,000 fans heading to the new Manchester United stadium that will slow your tram down. That's why the roads are snarled-up, too, so a taxi or a bus is out of the question.

But there's no need to panic, because a yellow Bee Network Boat will arrive at the MediaCity pontoon in a minute, stopping near Pomona Island on the Ship Canal before zooming passengers into the city centre a few minutes later.

It's a fantasy of 2025 Greater Manchester. But this is the vision one major architecture transport firm, WW+P, has for the city.

Fresh from designing stations on London's Elizabeth Line, Barcelona airport's new terminal, a

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