Liverpool just needs to:
- Update Merseyrail and reuse the underground tunnels
- Block up the urban motorway along the Strand
- Re-direct traffic coming out of Queensway tunnel by either by curving the tunnel underground and emerging in Byrom St or banning cars and using it for rail. This tunnel pours vehicles into the centre.
The Goree Warehouses on the Strand were demolished to accommodate a 50-60 mph inner motorway loop, that mercifully never transpired. Totally madness!!! The Strand was the only section built. It is best to get rid of the only section built and make the dock waters merge easily with the city beyond. This will reduce emissions and congestion in the centre. But the rail transports needs updating urgently.
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In the 20th century the city had a fixation about cars and roads.
- Queensway tunnel poured cars into the city centre
- A whole district was demolished to get the Kingsway tunnel in.
- A city centre inner motorway was planned
- long wide boulevards were built projecting out to the city outskirts
Rail was ignored and run down. London Underground was formed in the 1930s. It merged a collection of different independent railways to form one large metro system. They did an excellent job. Liverpool tried this in the 1970s. It was partially done and the rest abandoned. Liverpool should have merged all the railways into one metro system just after WW2. Late as usual.
The Wapping Tunnel to the Central Station branch tunnels was started and abandoned. The outer loop from Hunts X to Aintree and to Edge Hill via Broad Green never took off as the local Tory MP complained his constituents (many car owners) would be inconvenienced by the construction at Broad Green junction. The track was then lifted. This would have made a loop back to Liverpool centre via Kirkdale.
It is time to block off many inner "motorways" and do what they originally intended but with a re-design to get the full underground tunnels operative in Liverpool and Birkenhead.
Then who needs congestion charging.
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