Liverpool's pop-up cycle lanes to be made permanent - how it will affect city centre motorists - video Dailymotion

Work is to begin this week to convert two pop-up cycle lanes in Liverpool into permanent active travel routes.

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00:00Work begins this week to convert two pop-up cycle lanes in Liverpool into permanent active travel

00:05routes. Liverpool City Council has appointed AE Yates Limited to upgrade the pop-up lane on

00:11Crown Street as well as create a new cycling lane along Catherine Street between Caledonia Street

00:16and Upper Parliament Street. The local authority was awarded almost two million pounds to deliver

00:20several permanent versions of the pop-up cycle lanes that were introduced during Covid through

00:25a transport settlement secured through the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.

00:29The scheme would see a fully segregated cycle lane on both sides of the carriageway on Catherine

00:34Street and connect cyclists to segregated lanes on Princess Avenue which is part of the route

00:39through Toxteth to Sefton Park. The scheme which is a key element of the council's active travel

00:43programme will consist of the following improvement works. New segregated cycle lane,

00:48new dropped kerbs and tactile paving, carriageway reconstruction, new pedestrian crossing,

00:55road drainage works and road markings. Works will also be undertaken to enhance a second

01:00pop-up lane which runs through the city's Baltic district and out onto Otterspool Promenade,

01:05one of seven established during the Covid-19 pandemic with upgrades at the junction of

01:09Jamaica Street, Grafton Street and Kent Street. Work on both schemes which are supported by

01:14Active Travel England and the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement will take

01:20an estimated six months to complete subject to weather conditions. Active Travel England is

01:25responsible for making walking, wheeling and cycling the preferred choices for everyone to

01:29get around. Their objective is for 50% of trips in England's towns and cities to be walked,

01:34wheeled or cycled by 2030. Signal upgrades will also be introduced at both Canning Street and

01:39Upper Parliament Street junctions to make them more active travel friendly. To enable this,

01:44right turn manoeuvres will be restricted at the junction of Catherine Street and

01:48Upper Parliament Street. To monitor the effect of these changes, an experimental travel order

01:53will be introduced. This will be subject to public consultation once the scheme has been completed.