Half a Million extra tourists into Anfield a year wouldn't result in an extra car says joke Lib Dem Council:

Astonished Anfield residents protesting that the new 60,000 plus stadium built on Stanley Park would aggravate current levels of disorder and traffic congestion fell back in shock when council officials claimed that the project would bring a half million extra tourists into Anfield without a single extra car

Rounding on this claim as a flight of fantasy, Cllr Steve Radford pointed out of the 6 promised park and ride sites, already one had become a housing new build site at Craven Park and that the reopening of the Bootle Branch to passenger traffic was as far off as ever. He said the council's own traffic plans were a wish list without the any robust deliverable plans in place

After close examination of officers ,it became clear that during the building period the council intended to use sites cleared by demolition under the Housing Renewal policy (HMRI) as car parking facilities. This was in contradiction to the statements made at the Housing CPO Inquiry into Anfield made only a few months before

Cllr Radford said the council in suggesting housing regeneration was linked to the Stadium in the Park was acting with duplicity and undermined the credibility of the phoney consultation  which was more a sales pitch than an objective study.

Cllr Radford urged the Regeneration Cmte think afresh, recognise that Anfield was already congested and put the Stadium on a preferable site like the East Lancs or Speke where there were better Motorway and Railway connections to deal with the planned for additional 1/2million visitors

As totally expected the Labour and Lib Dem Cllrs voted the plan through