Maintenance costs by all accounts.
It may be easy to get all romanticised about whether it'd be great these days as those docks are not lined with wonderful vessels anymore and the way the tourist industry was here in the 1970s and 80s with the council not cashing in onthe Beatles (and those people go on to see other sights)
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These days, one of those where the carriages hang below the monorail or a tilting train running from the airport to Southport along the front would be imaginitive if marketed properly.
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