Birkenhead North Railway Station is more in need of Park and Ride than Bidston according to some councillors

Jun 3 2009 by Carrie Catterall, Wallasey News

BIRKENHEAD North Railway Station is being “left behind” as Bidston prepares to get a new Park and Ride service.

As soon as funding is granted from the European Regional Development Fund, Bidston’s £1m rail service makeover will begin.

Some councillors are enraged and say Birkenhead North Station would have been a better Wirral station to place the new service.

Designs for Bidston indicate that there will be approximately 190 new car parking spaces, lighting columns and CCTV t and construction is set to begin later this year.

Bidston councillor Harry Smith said: “There is a vast swathe of recently cleared land opposite Birkenhead North Station which is ideally situated to accommodate a Park and Ride.

A spokesman from Merseytravel said: “A Park and Ride service at Birkenhead North Station is still a proposal that we are looking to do but it is just not as progressed as Bidston.”