If you come from London and arrive in Liverpool suburbs after dark, it will become apparent that Liverpool is shut. Tight. In lock-down mode like it is under siege. Every building is either showing the signs of heavy metal welded window boardings and replacements for doors, or has securely rolled down night-time shutters. There are no sign of life. Street lights are old fashioned and very dim. The casual observer could be forgiven for thinking they are still gaslight.
In London, street lights are so powerful and designed to keep pavements lit to such a degree that it’s not uncommon to see people working on their cars in their light. However, Liverpool’s inadequate lighting combined with its derelict or locked-down buildings leaves many streets with large eerie pockets of scary darkness.
And where are all the cars a new entrant may ask? In London each side of every street has parked cars at night, leaving a single track in the middle of the road down which cars have to squeeze, sometimes having to wait and give way to oncoming traffic. It’s sometimes impossible to find a place to park. Travelling through the streets of North or South Liverpool it is like somebody had stolen most of the parked cars. Roads are navigable without having to give way to oncoming traffic. Not that there is any. In London, even in the suburb of East London, traffic never stops. But, oh those potholes. Is there any Liverpool road that has a single smooth surface? Nope.
You’ll be shaken but certainly not stirred, the first time you get to Liverpool!
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