Apart from rush hour I have never experienced Edge Lane as being all that busy. This area has been an eyesore for years. LCC deliberately allowed the area to run down rather than transforming it in an adaptive way that allowed the local community to work with the LCC and enabled the city as a whole to keep the best architecture in this area and avoid traffic congestion. The proposed plans for the redevelopment of this area and the awful housing envisaged are unimaginative in the extreme - more suitable for the East Lancs Road than a key road into the heart of the city cente.
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It's no coincidence that it's the poor areas of the city that are continually being torn apart by LCC's lack of thinking ahead and refusal to stem the process by which an entire area becomes blighted (Norris Green, Granby parts of Kensington, Kirkdale etc). It started in the 60s and it's still going on. How the hell do they get away with it?
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