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If you want rapid connection between both banks to merge the two more, then the three tunnels do it well enough with scope to put a rail link under the Queensway tunnel. It would need excavating ubnder the road deck from the two vent towers on each side of the river inland. The long river section can take a train under the road deck. The track can be single track - bi-directional. If the city is to reduce car dependency then using one of the Wallaset tunnels and makeing the other two-way is another option. This takes trains into Wallasey and the north end of Liverpool. Tram-trains can be use to negotitate Wallasey and link into Merseyrail in Liverpool.
OK A link from Garston to Ellesmere Port would be nice and a trestle bridge was proposed anout 10 years ago carrying rail lines linking Merseyrail easier to that part of Wirrral and beter airport access - if an airport station was built. Also a link from Bootle to New Brighton. But a Mersey barrier can take care of the Bootle link, which may come about eventually as sea levels rise and we become more eco wanting tidal power.
The barrier is the obvious link as it kills many birds with one stone.
A footbridge? The river is too wide and too windy to have any level of use worth talking about.
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