£45m Liverpool City Centre Transport Scheme

[mr t]

RE: £45m Liverpool City Centre Transport Scheme

(12/08/2016 16:05)Barney Wrote:  The fundamental difference between Stockholm and Liverpool is that public transport in Sweden is regulated and coordinated and the state recognizes the need to support it through taxation. If only it could happen here.

The "through traffic" alternative across the city centre was banished from Lime Street northbound and Renshaw Street and Tithebarn Street and Great Croshall Street in the last Big Dig changes and actually told and advised to use The Strand and Leeds Street and Hunter Street/Low Hill instead.
What we should have done in the 80s which was part of the citys future plan was to make Russell Street and Clarence Street and Berry Street a dual carriageway which would have then linked into St Anne St/Hunter St at one end and Parliament Street/Park Lane the other. Thus there would have been no need to use The Strand or at least there was a suitable alternative. Instead they back tracked and never implemented this section and allowed building of houses here and there and no its landlocked so will never happen. As happened across town over the last 10 years buildings have come up and been replaced literally everywhere with no regard for traffic and travel, so there is little chance now of any roads being built widened or realigned for the future, the Hall Street is the last big road project we will see