New public transport which could link up to Everton's new stadium
The Lime Line Network could link Liverpool Lime St. to Bramley Moore Dock
A planned new system of public transport through Liverpool could eventually run up the waterfront north of the city to near Bramley Moore Dock and Everton’s new stadium.
According to an update given to members of the council’s regeneration and sustainability select committee yesterday, work is continuing on plans for the so-called Lime Line network.
Regeneration project manager Mike Horne said the council is considering potential routes for network, which previous documents have suggested could use autonomous vehicles.
The Lime Line has been discussed in public documents before but is yet to be fully proposed or funded.
Mr Horne said it is the council’s ambition that the first four stations for the line would run from Lime Street up to Paddington Village, a major redevelopment site just past the new Royal Hospital.
He said: “We are looking at something called the Lime Line which would be a light public transport network that would go from Lime Street.
“At the moment we are looking at four stops – Lime Street, University Square, LJMU and Paddington Village.”
The comments were made during a presentation about progress at Paddington Village, which council bosses hope will play a major part in plans to turn a large area on the eastern edge of the city centre into a hub for science, technology and medical research.
The area, as well as the much larger Knowledge Quarter, currently host many of the city’s largest science and technology firms – but new developments set to be finished within the next few years could expand the sector even further.
Resonding to a question from councillor Jane Corbett about whether there would be potential to extend the Lime Line to other areas should it prove successful, Mr Horne said transport experts had looked at other areas the network could serve.
Mr Horne said: “We have had discussions with consultants about the route and they said it could start off there between Lime Street and Paddington Village and if it works well spread out to Liverpool Waters and Kings Dock and then across the city potentially.
“It is not a tram as such so it would be using the road network as well.”
Bramley Moore Dock, the site for Everton’s proposed new stadium, lies within Liverpool Waters, a massive regeneration plan for the docks north of the city.
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson and Blues fans have said more public transport to the dock would be needed were Everton to move to the site.
Everton are planning to submit planning application for the new stadium before the end of the year
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