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These images show how the council’s controversial £45m city centre roads revamp would look.

The scheme includes eight major projects including halving the lanes on the Strand and extending St George’s Hall plateau.

The Liverpool City Centre Connectivity Scheme (LCCC) aims to transform how people move around the city centre and will also see changes to Queen Square bus station which will be used for all northbound routes, while all southbound buses will go through the Paradise Street station.

Liverpool cabinet member Malcolm Kennedy, said: “Our city centre welcome needs a major upgrade to the standard befitting a world class city.

“With a growing residential population, a huge rise in visitors and £10bn of major developments in the pipeline, how we navigate around it needs a radical rethink in key locations and some major improvements.

“Each of these projects will open up a new world of possibilities to further accelerate the future growth of Liverpool and the wider city region.

“This scheme will make a huge difference to how everyone will moves around the city centre which is why we want to hear as many views as possible, be they pedestrians, cyclists or motorists.”

The council proposals also include a new hub for buses to park and layover in, which the council hopes will reduce bus traffic in the city centre.

But much of the focus has been on the plans to slash the number of lanes on The Strand, which have met with derision from motorists.

The council insists the changes would in fact reduce traffic, with several junctions and bus routes taken off the major route.

A month-long public consultation on proposals is gets underway this Thursday, giving drivers and pedestrians the chance to tell council chiefs their views.

An online survey will go live on Thursday and be available until midnight on Sunday, November 6.

Also as part of the consultation Liverpool BID Company will be holding a Business Breakfast Briefing on Thursday at 9am in Aloft Liverpool.

The eight proposed LCCC projects – due to be completed before the end of 2019 – are:

1. St George’s Plateau - New Event Space: To be created by using northbound lanes of Lime Street to increase current event capacity.

2. The Strand: Reduce the current eight lanes to four plus adding in a new north-south cycleway, and improved pedestrian links from waterfront to city centre.

3. New City Bus Hub: To be established near Queen Square bus station accompanied by a new bus routing strategy to cut congestion and pollution.

4. New City Coach Park (location TBC): New off-street layover facility and rest area for drivers and reduce congestion in the city centre.

5. New Canning Dock Bridges: Four new bridges will be created to link Salthouse Quay (opposite Albert Dock) with Mann Island opening up land for future development

6. New Moorfields entrance: Upgrade to the public realm on Moorfields.

7. Brownlow Hill: Upgrades and new cycle links from Lime Street station to the Knowledge Quarter.

8. Victoria Street/ Tithebarn Street: Upgrades plus a new two-way cycleway from Lime Street station to the waterfront via Hatton Garden and Tithebarn Street.