Liverpool City Council is set to create a Football Match Parking Zone around Everton’s new stadium.
A report to the council’s cabinet next Tuesday, 8 October, is recommending a raft of new measures surrounding the 52,888 seater stadium, similar to what is in place around Goodison Park and Anfield.
The focus of the proposed zone covers the area within a 30-minute walk of Everton Stadium, which will encompass the surrounding Ten Streets district and into the city centre.
Recommendations, which have been subject to a public consultation, include new resident parking areas, taxi ranks and match day bus stands.
They also include industrial parking to the north and south of Boundary Street and new parking restrictions.
Overall, the aim is to reduce congestion, improve air quality, safety and journey times to and from the stadium.
Liverpool City Council has invested more than £20m in the highways infrastructure around Bramley-Moore Dock, including a permanent segregated cycle lane running from the city centre up to Liverpool’s northern border at Bootle in Sefton.
Councillor Dan Barrington, Liverpool City Council’s cabinet member for transport and connectivity, said: “Everton Stadium is going to be transformational especially for the surrounding Ten Streets district and the wider Kirkdale community.
“As well as the economic benefit, the vast volume of people the stadium will attract – and how they arrive and depart – needs to be carefully managed.
“The North Docks area has never had to cope with such large numbers of people in such concentrated time periods, but fortunately the city has the experience and knowledge thanks to Goodison Park and Anfield. By creating this new match day parking zone, we’ll be looking to adopt and incorporate those controls which so effectively move tens of thousands on a weekly basis.”
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