Getting rid of The Strand and having seamless pedestrianization from the docks to the city would be nice and it gets rid of the urban motorway - the New York Times criticised the wide fast road.
Discouraging cars and improving the underground will make matters better in a really big way all around.
Eliminating car parking from new residential blocks should be done too. This only encourages people to own cars unnecessarily.
Last edited by Waterways; 12-17-2008 at 11:57 AM.
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On the wider view. Look at the new metro systems in Spain. Bilboa, Valencia, Alicanti, Sevilla, Palma have all new metro systems, partially underground. Barcelona and Madrid have extended their metros extensively. Most of this is within the past 20 years. The metro systems have greatly assisting these cities progression.
In the UK, we have London, Liverpool and Glasgow that have underground metro systems. Apart from London, nothing has been done to Glasgow or Liverpool's underground sections for decades. Liverpool has done some easy extensions on the peripheral overground sections. Although existing overground lines were merged into a surface metro system in Tyne & Weir. All we have done is implement silly, slow congestion causing trams in place like Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham and Croydon.
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We don't have much of a clue really. Rapid transit is the way, as the Spanish assessed. It alleviates cars in the centres and gets people around fast.
The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
Giving Liverpool a full Metro - CLICK
Rapid-transit rail: Everton, Liverpool & Arena - CLICK
Save Royal Iris - Sign Petition
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