Originally Posted by
petromax
Where will people go from Liverpool airport? It is no hub. It's a destination. If you make your city competitive and available, you will attract business. let's say you have many millions to spend on the relocation of a major international bank bring in many more millions of secondary investment and making any city you go to a better place to be. Which would you choose - Liverpool afraid of outsiders or Manchester with the welcome mat out? QED
True that an airport with many destinations will attract business. But right now most passenger leaving and arriving at JLA don't stop and spend in he city - they are people from outside the city. So, any immediate rail priority should be to regenerate the city, not make matters better for outsiders. Manchester was described as an airport with a city attached - we don't want that.
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If you haven't been or know of the revitalised docks in Sydney, Cape Town or Baltimore or any other of these stellar success stories - just say so. In all of these places and yes including Amsterdam and Hamburg (on a smaller scale) 'people live around the quays in vibrant communities together with appealing leisure facilities'.
I know all about these places. Amsterdam is not small. Have you been there?
Liverpool was a basket-case before 1999. Everything that has been achieved thus far within the city boundaries has been achieved without Peel. Peel is a great opportunity that is at the start of the road. But being outsiders, we should turn them away and let them invest in anywhere other than here because they are 'Manchester-based'. Perhaps you should learn from Manchester's successes and embrace the outsider.
My point is clear. Peel only care about Peel and making money. They don't care about our history or heritage. I was banned of the Liverpool Echo forum for daring to oppose Peels wanting to fill in West Waterloo Dock. They appear to have the council and local media in their pocket. Money they make is taken out of the city.
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