Originally Posted by
redjed1
Hi Waterways
That actually makes sense. Pity we couldn't talk the two factions into actually sharing a stadium.
Football apart, it would improve transport across the area. The current system is OK if you want to go to the city centre. Getting from the north to the south, without a car, is currently difficult.
Yes integrating a high throughput rapid transit rail station with stadium is ultra common sense. The planners and council do not value the rail system we have.
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Bringing in the outer loop makes one large circle of the city. This gives great route flexibility and brings onto Merseyrail a whole raft of districts.
Getting from north to south on Merseyrail? The northern Line runs from Southport through the north, the city centre and into the south to Hunts X.
What is not served is the east of the city and the central inner-city districts. All these can be brought onto Merseyrail, making it the first choice of transport for the people, as the Paris Metro and London Tube are, not lumbering, dirty slow buses. see:
Extending Meseyrail
This is to be updated.
Getting EFC and LFC to share is ideal. Failing that, both should be made to have a rapid transit link as a part of the stadium structure. Keeping fans, and their cars, out of the surrounding districts should be a part of the thinking behind these proposals. The clubs have everything to gain in that fans directly enter the stadium. Have the facilities and you keep them longer inside and they spend money. The planners have said to LFC, that if they want to get over the 60,000 of the current stadium proposal, of which they have planning permission, they need a rapid transit rail station nearby on the Canada Dock Branch Line. LFC have said they want to get to over 70,000 by expanding the stadium. This was foolish by the city as it should have been a part of the planning no matter what the capacity is - times move on so they should do it properly. It makes sense for LFC to have rail station in the stadium and change the plans.
There was mutterings of closing down Walton Hospital. Next to the hospital is a Merseyrail line. A stadium can be built over the line and 6 platforms built. If the NHS leave the site it is ideal for a stadium, as long as the stadium is built over the line. There is also suitable site around Aintree to put a stadium directly over a Merseyrail line.
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