Originally Posted by
glennw
HI, i am very interested in the Kings Drive scenario, for many years I have tried to work out the logic for the current layout!
Can you tell me when these changes were originally proposed, and why they were never completed, was it resdient uproar or money issues?
Perhaps also why it has never been mentioned again in recent times?
With all the congestion in the Woolton Village/Gateacre Village/Lee Park areas, this would almost certainly remove it over night, so why has it not been completed, surely the council of this day would realise the benefits of it far outweigh a bit of grass that may be lost? Even if half of it was finished off, such as the Hunts Cross Avenue being linked right through and onto Woolton Road, or just the Kings Drive connection, certainly either would benefit thousands of motorists everyday, and ease the life of others who are stuck in their homes looking at queues everyday!
Put simply, each time a local council got it, they decided it was a good ideal, the following council got in and decided it was a bad idea and so on and so on. Kings drive would have been a lovely dual carriageway all the way down to the roundabout at the bottom of Out Lane, linking up both sides of Hunts Cross Avenue before continuing along under the loop line and towards the current Kings Drive by Childwall Valley Road.
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It's only when you look from the air to see how messed up it all is. My uncle was raised in Woolton and saw this took shape from day one.
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