00:00 intro
00:26 Where The £1.6 Billion Is Actually Going
03:38 The New Stations That Could Transform Liverpool
04:49 The Transport Upgrades Most People Will Use Every Day
06:09 How This Could Change Liverpool Forever
07:45 Transport changing?
Liverpool is about to undergo the biggest transport transformation in its history. The Liverpool City Region has secured a massive £1.6 billion transport funding settlement that will help fund new railway stations, rail network expansion, better bus services, cycling infrastructure and major transport upgrades across Merseyside.
In this video, we take a deep dive into Liverpool’s transport revolution, including Baltic Station, Carr Mill Station, Woodchurch Station, Daresbury Station, the expansion of the Merseyrail network and plans for a fully integrated transport system.
We’ll also look at how the funding could unlock economic growth, support regeneration projects, create jobs, improve connectivity and help Liverpool compete with other major UK city regions.
Could this £1.6 billion investment become one of the most important infrastructure programmes in Liverpool’s modern history?
Keywords
Liverpool transport investment, Liverpool £1.6 billion, Liverpool transport revolution, Liverpool regeneration, Merseyrail expansion, Baltic Station Liverpool, Liverpool infrastructure projects, Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotheram, Liverpool rail network, Liverpool transport upgrades, UK mega projects, UK infrastructure, Merseyside transport, Liverpool growth plans, new railway stations Liverpool, Baltic Triangle station, Liverpool economy, UK regeneration projects, Liverpool future development
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16 Comments
Baltic station has been delayed again, Liverpool Central is supposed to be being rebuilt with no start date, the 500kms of cycle lanes have not even been started as yet, and one planned has ben redisigned/re looked at/ and part cancelled, and now being re looked at again. St Helens is getting a new bus station currently being built,the batery merseyrail trains to Headbolt lane fail frequently, the hydrogen buses have been sent back for electric drives t be installed, and many more problems th LCR fails to sort out cary on, as well as Franchising starting in Septemeber.
The 4 bus in Dingle used to stop in Brunswick Station now it misses the station completely.Surely an allowance is available from this huge grant to add one bus stop.Surely that’s affordable.
They should have built the Tram system when the were given the opportunity that would have linked Speke Airport and out of town routes. As usual the Council tried to force more from central Government funding and the project failed. That was twenty years ago, here we go again. Invest in a reliable bus service from a central garage not all these independents that drop routes that are not so profitable leaving commuters stranded.
Hopefully this can just be a Liverpool regeneration series in general, not just transport because a lot is going on!
All this is, is fucking NONSENSE. These changes wont bring any log term benefits relative to the TAXPAYER money spent.
The BALTIC area is a shit hole. Why would anybody want to go down there?
scruffy rotherham again at 3.01 AGAIN, ffs, will LCC collect the cash and earn interest on it for 2 years and do fook all as usual.
The $1.6 Billion is going to ''planners'', ''consultants'', ''panels of experts'' and CGI designers. Liverpool is and will be a car-centric city with all the talk but no work ever happening. This city cannot even complete basic road upgrades without delaying and postponing it for years if not decades. Mayor will plaster his face all over social media but things are never delivered. Stalled developments and empty promises all over the city. Embarrassing state of public realm (even in the city centre) is the perfect example of how this city is mismanaged.
I don't get why merseyrail are opening up another station so close to the city centre and so close to proximity within a few minutes walk away from bold street to the new one that is on the Baltic area as it's not needed as there is a great bus service from stagecoach and arriva number 82 but it only takes you no more than 5 minutes to walk from the Baltic area to the main city centre but other areas are in more of a need for a new railway reopen such as the freight line that goes from Bootle to Garston and the Liverpool loop line which is known as the old Cheshire lines
timestamp 8:08 – Liverpool having the most connected and modern transport network – What are you talking about? Have you even been to Liverpool or are you just reading something that the joke of the Mayor has put out?. Yes Liverpool has the Merseyrail network. yes it is good for the areas it connects, but everywhere gets sod all. Best connected and modern city in the UK – Not a chance, not even after this £1.6 Billion has been wasted. Have you been to Manchester? London? Birmingham even. All three of those cities and more besides have a better connected transport network than Liverpool has and I come from the city. Ask yourself this, which city can you not get from the city centre to the local airport by a single train journey? I'll give you a hint, its Liverpool. People often wonder why there is a struggle to get inward investment and I think it has everything to do with the airport not being accessible to the city centre via rapid transport. Think about it this way. You've landed at Manchester Airport, a stones throw from the city centre via train or tram – are you then going to get a car or a 90 minutes train journey to Liverpool or are you going to invest in the city you can get to within 20 minutes? I know if it were me, I would be looking at Manchester and not Liverpool. it's also why we don't have any major airlines flying from the airport apart from the low cost carriers at LPL. We will always fall behind other major cities if we struggle to get outside investment into the city and this joke of a Mayor isn't doing anything to fix it – we only ever see him when there something to be announced, but as soon as that's done, he's off like a shot. Just comparing Manchester to Liverpool is like comparing chalk and cheese – there is no comparison. Manchester has its major tram network covering a large part of the city, extensive heavy rail network, alongside the bus network and all are interconnected. I try to go by public transport by bus and train and I'm left waiting because there is no forethought into what an interconnected city is supposed to look like – buses timetabled to arrive in time to connect with the Merseyrail network or other heavy rail services – it's almost like the people operating the buses don't speak to the people running the timetables for Merseyrail trains to get the timetables in sync with one another. One journey I used to do regularly involved a change of train in Liverpool central to head onto the Wirral, but the arriving train arrived at Central 1 minute before the next service departed and with a recommended 5 minute transit time between platforms, left us regularly waiting 20-25 minutes for the next service.
It has taken 20 years to get Merseyrail to move to digital ticketing using the Walrus, sorry Metro Card, but you can only use for certain types of ticketing and you can tap your bank card, but not if you're travelling with children and you can't tap in at certain stops for some reason – it is nothing compared to the Oyster card system in London. We also cannot using a variety of different transport methods to get from point A to Point B and only be charged one fee – we can't do that, nor can you just load credit onto the Metro Card and use the card as a tap and go as it has to be tied to a bank account. If you buy train tickets that includes a portion of your travel on Merseyrail, don't forget to pick your tickets up as even if you can show them on your p[hone, you still have to have a piece of paper in 2026 for your ticket to be valid – every other rail TOC accepts digital tickets on the screen of your phones but not good old Merseyrail. They like to give you a £20 fine and make you buy the ticket again for good measure.
The less that can be said about the gaslighting by the mayor that the bendy buses he wants to put on the streets aren't actually bendy buses with plastic wheel caps , but rail-less trams or whatever rubbish he was spouting. The fact is, the route these new bendy buses are planned to be used on, we've tried before and they failed back in 2008. The main stumbling points is Aigburth Road and Speke Boulevard which despite being dual carriageway all the way through, are still log-jammed with traffic and there's certainly not enough money to fix this problem in that £1.6 billion. If we absolutely cannot afford a tram network (I don't understand why the city cannot do what it did to buy the new Merseyrail trains) then they need to figure out a way of speeding up the route to the airport from the city centre. They also need to increase the bus routes serving Edge Lane, a major thoroughfare connecting the city centre to that start of the M62 motorway on the outskirts of the city that only has one bus service operating through the length. I cannot speak for the north of the city, nor the east covering the Anfield and Everton areas, but considering those areas aren't on the Merseyrail network,. they too should see some significant investment to improve transport links.
All in all, this £1.6 billion of investment over 7 years is a start, it is not enough to fix and solve the fundamental issues related to transport in this city. Maybe if the government started offering other cities the same amount of money spent in London on Crossrail and the other transport systems they've had funding for over the years, then maybe we may see some improvement, but I won't hold my breathe on that one.
Busses I’m not the primary way to get people out of cars; especially for the majority of journeys that are made, such as going to the shop or getting kids to school. Take where I live in the Liverpool city region for example the nearest bus stop is where the supermarkets are. I cannot and my neighbours cannot get a bus from where we live to the shop which is why you see so many of them driving even though it’s only a four minute drive.
City regions like Liverpool need to realise the best way and currently only effective way to get people out of their cars for such journeys is by making journeys by bike safe. For example it takes me four minutes to ride my bike to the shop; exactly the same time it takes to drive. I don’t blame the majority of my neighbours for not choosing to ride instead currently as the route does not feel safe passing over a large four lane road. However, a relatively simple investment in adding a model filter at one of those junctions suddenly unlock it as an option for the thousands of homes on the other side of the road from the supermarkets. 5:19
What is the point of building cycle lanes when cyclists would rather cycle on the pavements putting pedestrians at risk, or on the road slowing down drivers trying to deliver to the local shops and disabled drivers with no other options.
Will all this investment make Liverpool a 15 minute city?
Why can’t we just invest in Manchester! Andy Burnham will make Manchester the Northern Capital.
That money will end disappearing into the pockets of the corrupt Labour council and nothing will get built.
Sounds good. Looks good. Let’s hope it’s not like the bottomless money pit the royal university hospital turned into. Plenty filled there pockets while plenty emptied them. Again and again and again. Liverpool gave so much to Britain and the world. It’s time they got support. Especially the surrounding areas desperately in need of it like Southport. Who also gave and still give but need help and support. It looks good a fancy pants city. But there’s people communities, seaside towns who desperately need investment too. After all we’re all Merseysiders not just a city and live close to it.