Quote Originally Posted by kat View Post
Jericho
Where's your evidence that people don't feel safe travelling by local transport.
Look at the investment in cameras on trains, train stations, bus terminals, bus's, and look at the slogans on some of the trains reminding us that cameras are installed for our safety? why would all this investment need to take place if everyone felt safe on public transport, thats "fact"
Merseyside transport police now patrol the underground on a regular bases, if people already felt safe before this then why bother to invest in police officers on trains?

Why should the council re invest in run down housing stock, and no my evidence is not ancidotal its factual. Regarding how does this relate to edge lane, well, there are or rather were private landlords and some social landlords in the area. If you turn around what has been said and your implying that private home owners are responsible for the condition of their own propertys? then why should the council tax payer foot the bill to refurbish homes that private owners cannot be bothered to maintaine? sure everyone would like their existing homes done up for free! and what about the infa structure, safe places to park cars? green spaces, refurbishment doesnt bring about those without demolition. All housing stock has a shelf life, the condition of roofing timbers, lack of damp coursing, poor insultion values lead water pipes no heating rotten windows, all adds to the cost. and in the end what would they end up with? the same problems they had before (just suspended).
With regards to the road, they have to invest in the road to bring in new business to the city center and to attract further investment. Every city needs to have a good transport infa structure.
kat
Hi Kat,

I have addressed the issue about safety above.

In terms of who foots the bill for rennovation, I think people who don't have a morgage or have paid for their property should be put in one of those schemes whereby they own a certain percentage of their property and the housing association owns the rest. In terms of additional costs, the cost of demolishing exisiting properties and building new ones as part of social housing provision would be offset by using this money to rennovate exisiting areas and giving people a real stake in their community. Maybe then they will leave the plumbing and bathroom fittings alone! In a capitalist system the more this type of scheme was operated the cheaper it would become.



BTW, did all the tenants behave in the way you describe in your post?

In terms of roads - Liverpool's roads are fine. There isn't any meaningful congestion. I can drive from where I live in Aigburth to anywhere in town in about 10 minutes (if I get caught in a bit of traffic at a traffic light). Even at rush hour, I can still do it in 20 minutes. We don't need any more dual carriageways in the centre of town. There isn't the demand for them. The only place I can see a demand would be from Seaforth docks to Switch Island in order to get the lorries away from the port.