Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
If you think that will keep the area in top nick for over a 100 years with a large stadium there you are in cloud cuckoo land It will dwindle away to a slum again. No one wants to live near a large stadium.
There's more to keeping an area going than splashing some cash about and then leaving it for a hundred years.



Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
The cost of the stadium may be unnecessary, but the line will promote the districts it runs through. Having stadium on it, it will sing. Billion? You made that up.
An unnecessary stadium won't get done and will benefit no one.

Latest published estimates for the new stadium were in the order of ?400-600m. An 80,000 seater stadium, joint or single club, would be towards the top of that range, very possibly higher. Restoration of outer loop line, conservatively ?300m (see above). Close enough to a billion as makes no difference.

Extend Goodison and Anfield, new station on Canada Branch line, kick-start Anfield Breckfield and Walton regeneration, create a sports and leisure centre of excellence based around Stanley Park, be a host for the World Cup in 2018 and attract hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city and show it off in a fantastic light - in the order of half the cost and within reach of the clubs ie. achievable.



The outer loop is for another day. It would be great, but not just now and not via football.