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Originally Posted by Waterways

There was plan for trams but rightly shelved. Liverpool has an underground rail system connecting to overground lines. A number of stations are being built along the tracks and few abandoned stations brought back into use.

The city is littered with abandoned tunnels - some dating from the 1830s built by the Stephensons to serve goods stations at the docks. There is debate of what to do with these. There was a 1970s plan to cut stations into these tunnels and join crossing tunnels underground. The abandoned Dingle underground station can be brought back into use if they want to, to regenerate that area. The station is there.

Birkenhead, across from Liverpool, a few years ago, had a new rail station cut into a tunnel.

What they need to do is abandon the Dock Rd as it runs through the city centre, as this is just an urban motorway these days. Then people will use public transport more and then that can be improved and added to as time goes on. The infrastructure is there, left to us by our Victorian great grandfathers. All we need to do is re-use it.

I would be very interested to see any information on these abandoned tunnels (old maps, etc).