Congestion Charging in Liverpool City Centre
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has posted a vote on our main site’s homepage with regard to congestion charging in Liverpool City Centre.
We want to know if you think the city centre needs a charge. Will it improve travelling through and around the city? Will it help with pollution? Create ‘rat runs’ through exempted areas? And what about the costs to business? If you have an opinion, share it with us here.
Please vote today - the results will be posted on here and on our main site - and please include any comments you may have on this blog. Simply click the ‘comment’ link below this story’s headline.
All you need to do to control city centre traffic is to make parking costly and to provide excellent rail / bus links. Keep Liverpool city centre free of the Livingstone nightmare.
August 21st, 2007 at 9:44 amI would feel angry if the congestion charge was brought in before all the main routes into and out of the city centre are clear of roadworks and running properly. I still don’t see a need for it in Liverpool - seems like yet another tax on the motorist and a reason for businesses to move out of the city!
August 21st, 2007 at 9:46 amA congestion charge for Liverpool is a completely ridiculous concept. Firstly, Liverpool is a relatively small city compared with say Manchester. Secondly we have an underground railway, which is excellent and thirdly what about the people who live on the Wirral. £1.30 each way via the tunnel or pay a toll across the new bridge at Widnes (in the future). Surely the people of the Wirral who work in Liverpool and beyond shouldn’t have to pay again. Lets carry on improving the road, bus and rail routes and show the rest of the UK how to encurage growth and prosperity, not just follow suit and make a quick buck.
August 21st, 2007 at 10:05 amI think monorail would be a great idea to get people around the city centre. It will be space saving and reduce conjestion. We should have multi Storey car parks just outside the centre with monorail stations attached to them. People working in the city centre at the moment are spending alot of time in traffic and finding it difficult to park. They will probably spend less time parking up in the multi storey and getting on a monorail if there are regular services at peak times. Its also looks great for tourists coming to liverpool!
August 21st, 2007 at 10:11 amIf a Congestion charge is implemented you will be making the city more inaccesible to people as it is expensive coming into the centre anyway and in my understanding this is not what the City wants after so much funding and work taking place for the Capital of Culture.
August 21st, 2007 at 11:12 amCongestion charging seems to be the IN thing at the moment.Nobody appears to have actually sat down and thought of the alternatives or even why the congestion has got so bad. Could it be that half of the city has been immobilised with the supposed improvements?. Will things improve once all the diversions and delays have gone? Have we as a city actually made our minds up as to whether we want more people buying goods in the city and more people conducting business in the city or are we once again going to discourage such activity in the name of progress and then bleat to all and sundry that we are a special case and have been badly treated. Lets have a cohesive strategy fully thought out and correctly implemented for the correct reasons and perhaps people will enjoy visiting this city again and not head for Manchester as is happeneing at the moment.
August 21st, 2007 at 11:16 am