I have previously posted this....
If the Shanghai Tower at Princes Half-Tide Dock is approved, Merseyrail has to seriously consider reopening the Waterloo tunnel which emerges adjacent. This tower may have a cascade affect of development from it further inland too and then Byrom St may need a station at Fontenoy cutting in the tunnel.
Get the underground rail infrastructure in place and the rest will follow. This may need serious public money invested in the Merseyrail system - essential.
An outer Liverpool city centre underground circle line should be a priority to regenerate the inner city. As outlined in another thread:
- Take the Garston line at Otterspool under Otterspool Park (cut and cover). Easy to do across parkland.
- Into Aigburth Vale, and build an underground station here serving that centre.
- Down Aigburth Rd to Dingle (cut and cover again) and a station at Lark Lane, serving that centre.
- Up to Dingle from Lark Lane and branch into the Dingle tunnel
- Re-commission the disused Dingle station serving that centre.
- Re-commission the Dingle tunnel and install a gantry that takes the tracks to low level and back into the Garston line at the Herculaneum Dock.
- Abandon the St Micheal's Station and the line from Otterspool to Herculaneum.
- From the top of Aigburth Rd branch along Ullyet Rd and across Princes Park (cut and Cover), to Lodge Lane/Sefton Pk Rd. Easy to do across parkland.
- Build a station at Sefton Park Rd serving the park and that centre.
- Take the tunnel up Lodge Lane (cut and cover)
- Build a station in Lodge Lane and serve that centre.
- Up Tunnel Rd to Edge Hill junction.
- Down the Waterloo Tunnel from Edge Hill
- Cut out of the tunnel a new station at London Rd serving that centre
- Cut out of the tunnel a new station at Byrom St serving that centre
- Out at Waterloo Dock
- Build a station here serving that centre
- Branch onto the northern line and back to the city centre.
This outer city center underground loop serves many centres which would act as a catalyst for regeneration in all of them - re-generate the inner city!!!!! Two existing tunnels, the Waterloo and Dingle, would be re-commissioned alleviating much of the cost with the rest being mainly cut and cover.
It would be quite cheap for what it would offer and the re-birth of the inner city. What city has such a legacy that is easily adapted to provide such a base in which to re-generate the inner city? Most other cities in the world would drool at what Liverpool has which is already in place.
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