Liam Robinson said the city would look for 'appropriate' ways to encourage people to leave the car at home
The leader of Liverpool Council has not ruled out closing roads again for car free activities despite last year’s bungled events on the Strand.
It had been expected the road would be closed for six hours with a variety of activities on offer to promote active travel alternatives. However, after chaos, complaints and bad weather, the event was scrapped early, something that hasn’t put off the new council chief.READ MORE: Once promising footballer arrested at airport after being unmasked as Encro dealer 'SoundDill'
Almost £9,000 was used for traffic management, with an additional £4,800 needed for stewarding. Reflecting on last year’s event, Cllr Robinson said: “A lot of lessons have been learnt and we fully appreciate something that was done with the right intent didn’t work out well. “One of the things we’re very conscious of is we don’t just want to do appropriate car free activities solely on car free day.” In September last year, problems arose with large queues of traffic building up around the city centre, while images and video of the long tailbacks were posted on social media.
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