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£47m programme to change the way people travel around Liverpool City Centre

December 16, 2019
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by Editor

New details on the next phase in a £47m programme to change the way people travel around Liverpool city centre have been announced.

Liverpool City Council is undertaking the Liverpool City Centre Connectivity scheme to reduce congestion and improve air quality, but had to pause the Lime Street element whilst it removed the structurally flawed Churchill Way Flyovers and gained approval for a new Bus Hub.

Now that the 50 year-old structure is almost gone and the bus hub is approved, the city council have announced next steps in upgrading Lime Street and why a key city centre bus service can continue.

After public feedback and a reappraisal the council is re-introducing a segregated cycle lane on Lime Street, which will also gain a new public square outside the train station and an expanded plateau outside the Grade I listed St George’s Hall, the segregated cycle route has been adopted.

To begin in May 2020, Lime Street will be reduced into a single carriageway in each direction, with the southbound lane able to access St Johns Shopping centre car park.

South of Lime Street station will be a single lane only, with northbound traffic, including buses, no longer able to travel past the old ABC Cinema and Holiday Inn hotel and will instead need to take a left or right at the Adelphi Hotel junction.

Bus users are being advised that due to the timings of these works that changes to routes through Liverpool city centre will now come into effect later next year, rather than in January as originally planned. Once agreed, the revised date for route changes will be made available.

As a result of further traffic modelling and surveys, the city council has also agreed in principle with the city’s bus alliance that the 82 bus service from South Liverpool will be able to continue to use Hanover Street. This decision is subject to the introduction of new bus priority measures such as bus gate or dedicated bus lane, which is currently being mapped out.

The bus hub on Old Haymarket will begin to come into use in January before becoming fully operational later in 2020.

Its function will see Queen Square bus station became the focus for northbound bus routes and Liverpool One bus station for southbound bus routes, which will be underpinned by the Lime Street redesign.

It is estimated the new hub and re-routed bus services will save over 900,000 bus km and 2,000 tonnes of CO2 being emitted into the atmosphere every year.

The Lime Street designs also include the installation of a water feature at the southern end of the plateau, which lies within the city’s World Heritage site.

The Lime Street revamp will also see a widened, boulevard style pavement running the entire length up to the Adelphi Hotel, which sits within the newly branded Upper Central gateway to the city’s Knowledge Quarter.

The LCCC scheme aims to boost transport links and further fuel Liverpool’s international appeal to investors, shoppers and tourists with its visitor economy, currently valued at £3.6bn/year, expected to grow by 25% over the next 10 years.

The scheme is receiving £40.1m from the Local Growth Fund with local match funding of £7m and is a major part of Liverpool City Council’s £500m Better Roads programme. Local Growth Funding is awarded to the Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and invested through the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority through its Strategic Investment Fund.

Another element of the LCCC programme currently underway is Liverpool’s first dedicated coach park which is being created to accommodate the boom in coach visitors to the city centre, which last year equated to 160,000 more tourists than those who arrived via the cruise terminal.

Other LCCC phase 1 schemes include:

  • Moorfields: Improving the footways to enhance the area and the entrance into Moorfields Station. Completed Summer 2019.
  • Victoria Street: This will include removal of bus layovers as well as tree planting and new public realm features, creating wider footways and options for street café’s. Completing in March 2020
  • Brownlow Hill:Creating a new cycle link with Lime Street, and improved public areas that create a place for enjoying and accessing the Knowledge Quarter. Completing in March 2020
  • Tithebarn Street: Includes creation of new cycleway to enhance links with Lime Street and the waterfront. Completing in June 2020
  • City Coach Park: On Riverside Drive – a dedicated facility with provision to accommodate 30 vehicles. Completing in April 2020

The second phase will see a series of highways improvements along The Strand, with work scheduled to begin in Spring 2020. A series of public consultation events on this element will be held in the new year.

READ MORE: Merseyrail named most punctual rail operator in the country for second year running

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