kithnou
Player Valuation: £70m
If you keep increasing the font size and changing the colour mate, maybe someone will notice...
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gorgeousgeorgeEFC
Player Valuation: £25m
10,000 of Goodison's 40,000 seats have obstructed views. And that's according to the club's own figures.
gorgeousgeorgeEFC
Player Valuation: £25m
50,000 would be a waste of time.
But I don't think that Mr Moshiri is so lacking in ambition as to want to build us a new stadium that's even smaller than Newcastle United's ground.
TheFinnFan
Finners
Whos mar was it ?
gorgeousgeorgeEFC
Player Valuation: £25m
That would make it ever so slightly bigger than Tottenham's new stadium, but not so big that we couldn't sell it out most weeks.
The perfect capacity, for me.
MickA
Player Valuation: £10m
This is very simple.
If there's no restricted view tickets more people will go to the match.
If we simply just add 5k corp to the new stadium and nothing else then more people will go to the match.
If there's better facilities and a choice of different packages more people will go to the match.
If you can buy ST/one-off tickets and sit next to your friends/family more people will go to the match.
If you make the stadium more accessible to the Merseyrail network and city centre bus routes more people will go to the match.
In England whenever there's a new stadium built there is always a 'new stadium' bounce which will see more people go to the match.
And that's before we factor in pricing incentives etc.
There is no comparison between what we can do attendance and facility wise at BMD compared to GP now.
anton66
Player Valuation: £50m
Plus, only 7/8 teams have actually taken their full away allocation at Goodison this season. This would increase in a new stadium.
cjuk87
Player Valuation: £10m
They still haven't sold out tonight either...
Jacko93
Player Valuation: £35m
Seeing as we're talking hypothetical trainlines.....
Only one place really where the station for this could go....
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/underground-train-could-go-liverpool-12696115
A “hover train” line that could get passengers from Liverpool to Manchester in just SEVEN minutes is being considered by transport bosses, the ECHO can reveal.
Direct City Networks (DCN) is developing a plan for “the world’s fastest underground system” that could run from Liverpool to Hull.
DCN300+ would be a Maglev – magnetic levitation – system where vehicles hover above tracks and are propelled by electrically charged magnets. That reduces friction to a minimum and means vehicles can go at up to 350mph, faster than any conventional train in Europe.
The DCN plan would see Maglev trains put into a tunnel stretching across the North. Its initial plans suggest the journey from Liverpool to Hull could take just 29 minutes.
And the ECHO understands Labour’s candidates for the Liverpool and Manchester metro mayor roles, Steve Rotheram and Andy Burnham, are looking carefully at the scheme.
It is set to be launched publicly in the near future but the ECHO has seen a brochure with more details of the proposal.
The maglev could work alongside Northern Powerhouse Rail, the proposed high-speed rail link from Liverpool to Manchester and Leeds that could connect to HS2.
A worker cleans the platform beside a Maglev train in Shanghai, China. (Photo: China Photos/Getty Images)
High speed rail link from Liverpool to London AND Manchester moves closer
At the heart of the DCN scheme is a line between Manchester and Leeds, with a journey time of nine minutes.
That line could then be extended to Liverpool and Hull – meaning it could also be used by freight traffic between the two ports.
Rather than using long “trains”, the system would instead use passenger pods, or capsules.
DCN believes a tunnel would be the best option for its line as it would allow for a straight line and would avoid the costs and disruption associated with building a new intercity line at ground level through cities and the Pennines.
DCN has worked with Hyperloop, the company created by US billionaire Elon Musk that wants to run magnetic pods at more than 600mph. But while Hyperloop would pump the air out of its tubes so the carriages could run even faster, the DCN plan would see the pods run through tunnels at normal air pressure.
A Maglev train, also known as the magnetic levitation train, runs on a track in Shanghai, China. (Photo: China Photos/Getty Images)
This 760mph 'trainline on stilts' could slash Liverpool commute times
The cost of that initial Manchester to Leeds line could be between £2.2bn and £3.7bn. But DCN estimates that the line could grow GDP across those two cities by £1.3bn a year and create 48,000 additional jobs.
On that initial Leeds-Manchester line, pods could leave as often as every 60 to 90 seconds.
DCN will soon reveal its early proposals and will then move forward to a detailed feasibility study to attract the billions of pounds of investment that would be needed.
DCN’s advisers on the project include international accountancy firm KPMG, global engineers Arup and consultants from Imperial College London.
A futuristic trainline on stilts could allow Mancunian passengers to reach London in just EIGHTEEN minutes.
A spokesperson for Transport for the North said: “TfN has been provided with information by Direct City Networks (DCN) PLC regarding a proposal to initially link Manchester and Leeds with a high speed ‘MagLev’ connection, with the possibility of this being extended to Liverpool and Hull.
“We have responded to DCN, highlighting several areas where we think substantive additional development work would be needed before any proposal could be given more detailed consideration.
“Our current priorities include the preparation of a long-term Strategic Transport Plan for the North and development of the Northern Powerhouse Rail proposals, which will identify plans for infrastructure needed to transform the region’s economy by offering fast, frequent and reliable transport around the North for both passengers and freight.”
The ECHO has approached DCN for comment.
It’s not the first plan for such a link. In 2008, UK Ultraspeed suggested a Maglev system linking cities including Liverpool and London.
A futuristic trainline on stilts could allow Mancunian passengers to reach London in just EIGHTEEN minutes.
Supertrain will get you from Liverpool to Manchester in 10 minutes
Maglev technology was developed in Britain. It was used on the link from Birmingham International station to the airport.
There are now several Maglev lines in Asia. The best-known is the Transrapid system in Shanghai, the world’s fastest commercially operating train, which can reach speeds of 267mph.
In Japan, the Chuo Shinkansen line currently under construction would allow trains to travel at more than 300 miles per hour between Tokyo and Nagoya. Most of that journey will be underground.
In 2015, a Maglev train in Japan set a world speed record of 373mph on a test track.
Some details of the scheme are now available on the DCN300+ website.
Durham Toffee
Shameless Wool
Christ, it's terrible there...At least we don't live in Newcastle.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
so the mosh has bought the royal liver building too...
MickA
Player Valuation: £10m
Get the offices in there ASAP Farhad la.
orly
Please check with me for Blammo criteria
*signs back in*
Hello El Snido Loco
This one was a silent takedown, did NOT see it coming.
But freedom lives hence, and banishment is here and I am now restored
I note while I was away we signed a Heads of Terms letter. ITK Orly.
FurstWith all the crap being spurted out about Bramley Moore Dock by the red biased media, just for the bantz give them something real to gripe about .
How about Mosh buying the Liver Buildings painting the birds Royal Blue and applying for copy right
billytoffee
Player Valuation: £20m
What lottery numbers you putting on tonight mate ??
Some spooky paranormal shizzle going on there - maybe.