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New £4M scheme to improve cycling in South Liverpool

September 21, 2022
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by Editor

Work has begun to transform a historic boulevard in the Toxteth area of South Liverpool that will boast a cycling first for the city.

Contractors for Liverpool City Council are now on site at Princes Avenue and Road to embark on a £4m scheme featuring a unique cycle path along the central reservation.

nmcn (formerly North Midland Construction) are to install the 1km long cycle path within the central reservation – a first for Liverpool. The six month long scheme is set to be completed in the summer of 2020.

The scheme’s aim is to improve pedestrian and cycle connectivity between south Liverpool and the city centre, with the plan to install a new Citybike station along the route.

The works comes as the city council this week announced that work on another new cycle lane is to begin next May, on Lime Street, with another on Regent Road, along the north docks, to complete in Spring.

The city council, which recently declared a climate emergency and is developing a Clean Air plan, is holding a series of creative engagement events with the local community on the design elements around the new open spaces, with more to be held in mid-January 2020.

The new cycle path would also form an extension of a new ‘green corridor’ to Otterspool that is due to be delivered in the next 12 months. The URBAN Green UP project has £3.4m of EU funding to install and test three ‘green corridors’ across the city, which was a key recommendation in the city council’s Strategic Green and Open Spaces Review.

The innovative scheme, which falls between Upper Parliament Street and Princes Park Gate, also aims to stimulate the wider regeneration of an area that was created in Liverpool’s Victorian maritime hey-day.

The wide, tree-lined boulevard styled avenue leading up to Princes Park was built for the city’s merchant class and boasts grand houses as well as a stunning range of religious architecture, including the Grade I listed Gothic/Moorish revival masterpiece that is the Princes Road Jewish Synagogue.

As part of the proposals to regenerate the existing 18.5m wide central reserve, improvements to the area will include:

•        New and improved pedestrian and cycle paths linking into the wider neighbourhood.

•        New and improved toucan crossings

•        Planting of a number of new trees and new landscaped areas

•        New carriageway surface and drainage improvements.

•        Localised footway improvements.

•        New seating and lighting.

•        Restoration of existing artwork and monuments.

•        New public artwork to celebrate the history and people of Toxteth and Liverpool

This scheme is part of Liverpool City Region’s Sustainable Transport Enhancement Package (STEP) and the city council was successful in being awarded £1.925m from the STEP programme. The remainder of the funding will be provided through the council’s £500m Better Roads programme.

The STEP programme is part of the Local Growth Fund (LGF). 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. Social value benchmarks and targets are also included in the contract committing nmcn to providing work and training opportunities to the Liverpool labour market.

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

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