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Decent route between the two suburbs of Liverpool, but unfortunately it is not wheelchair friendly, due to terrain and some narrow obstacles. All other users should have no trouble using it.

From Bootle New Strand station, it is a well-paved road walk, with ramped and controlled pedestrian crossings. It is gradually uphill from the gas works until Rice Lane.

One thing I'll point out about the route so far: the map shows the route as crossing the crossroads/roundabout at the junction of Aintree and Southport Roads using a crossing on the right (south) side. There is a crossing, but on the north side, there's actually a pedestrian crossing, which is better for such a busy road.

We're soon past HMP Liverpool and onto Rice Lane, where there are a number of shops at the Black Bull. The route then turns down Grace Road, where we access the tarmacced footpath of the old railway, now part of the Transpennine Trail.

It is fully accessible up until we hit the road crossing of Barlow's Lane, where the barriers are very narrow, too narrow for the majority of wheelchairs and some buggies. The path ahead has some subsidence, and, at Aintree Racecourse, the path becomes a narrow earth and stone footpath, which eventually meets the canal, from where it is a short grassy bank to the bridge.

Crossing before the bridge, the path ahead is again narrow and natural, and in undergrowth. There is a steep dip at one point, but otherwise a pleasant walk. Eventually, after the motorway bridge, we hit a tarmac path, which runs behind houses and under the raikway (a few pinch gaps) and onto a field. Once over the grass, it's roads all the way into Kirkby and its shops, passing the railway station if you need it.

A good route; despite the urban, unremarkable start, it becomes a nice green one once we hit the old railway and canal. Just a shame it's not accessible to all.

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