Originally Posted by
Ged
Liverpool waters V WHS - F*** WHS off then as Dresden did.
There are no rules about a rapid transport provision. If the council want to do this then that's up to them.
Ge, you missed the lot. If Peel wanted to make this large mixed commercial/residential project a sure-fire success they would have incorporated rapid-transit to ensure so. This applies to Wirral Waters as well. The simple fact they never proves they are not in for the long term. The similar Docklands in London needed a new 31 station metro to be a success. The biggest beneficiaries for extending Merseyrail into the project are the landowners - as an aside, water inside the territorial limits in economics is regarded as land, as are its resources. Rapid-transit rail (infrastructure) raises land values - look at all large cities that have comprehensive networks. London being the nearest obvious example. Rapid-transit rail creates economic growth. Economic growth soaks into the land and crystalizes as land values.
Forget trams. Thank God the expensive fiasco at Edinburgh has put the lid on them for ever, apart from extending say Metrolink in Manchester. Technology in tram-like buses using electric drive recharged from each bus stop is proven in Shanghai. Trams will not be run into Liverpool Waters - which are just electric buses anyhow.
Liverpool applied to UNESCO for World Heritage Status and comprehensively got it. Immediately the city and private companies like Peel started to ignore it.
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Is World Heritage Status beneficial to the city? YES without doubt. We stand out.
Do not be sucked in by the likes of Peel who deliberately flouted the rules then blame everyone else. I see little enterprise in that company -primarily being a land company. Peel say the city is being penalized by UNESCO and EH in order to get their way. Peel and wait and wait and the land values just keep rising. The board could comatosed for 10 years, wake up and they are worth even more. You can't do that with an enterprise business.
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