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RE: £45m Liverpool City Centre Transport Scheme
(12/08/2016 14:27)MTL0201 Wrote:  Read this earlier, reducing lanes on The Strand is barmy idea, it's busy enough as it is, & main route from North to South of the City without using the Queens Drive, not to mention main route from the Wallasey Tunnel to South of the City such as JLA. What they should be doing is sorting out the traffic lights, a lot of them are a right pain to get through, especially the ones by the Royal as you head towards Kensington, can wait through 3 cycles of lights to get past them.

As a motorist I avoid that area like the plague except between the hours of 1-6am and friends and family who commute along The Strand tell me that it is quite often gridlock for most of the day, including Sunday. Clearly, the proposal to reduce the road capacity by 50% obviously won't help the situation.

The fundamental problem is that the public transport provision from north (Crosby) to south (Aigburth) of the city is totally inadequate. Yes, there is the Southport-Hunts Cross Merseyrail service but that is operating at near capacity with the oldest rolling stock on the former BR network with no prospect of new or more trains for at least eight years. Quite often just one failure throws the whole system into chaos.

There are many possible ways of mitigating the congestion in this area and the obvious - and cheapest - one is to provide a direct bus service along the route. Prior to deregulation, the 1 (Dingle to Seaforth) operated a five-minute frequency most of the day with additional peak hour 1A/E services to Netherton. Also, Ribble used to operate a peak hour L35 along Derby Road directly into town. Admittedly, these services ran at a time when the Liverpool docks and environs were bustling and that is no longer the case but there has been a huge increase in commuter and leisure traffic in recent times. If just 10% of commuters between Thornton and Aigburth took the option of a fast direct bus service to the Pier Head/Liverpool One it would ease the congestion greatly.

As for the proposal that dedicated bike lanes would ease the problem, get real. 70% of the time strong winds and heavy rain blow in off the Irish Sea. Would you give up your car for a bike?
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RE: £45m Liverpool City Centre Transport Scheme - Barney - 12/08/2016 15:25



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