Everton are preparing to leave Goodison Park.
The Toffees are leaving one of the most iconic and oldest grounds in the country at the end of the season.
Everton will be housed in their new state-of-the-art Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium from the beginning of next season.
The 52,000-seater hosted its first test event with the under-18s facing Wigan Athletic in front of a reduced crowd last month.
However, there were a number of complaints regarding transport into the stadium but now Liverpool’s Mayor is set to make a key change.
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Liverpool Mayor set to run more train services into Everton’s new stadium
Liverpool’s Mayor Steve Rotheram has confirmed that more train services will be running into Bramley Moore-Dock after transport issues in the first test event.
“We learnt a lot from the last test event,” Rotheram said.
“Those lessons have been put into effect. For the first test event, a 3rd used the rail system. If that’s the same for a 52k game, it will be about 15k. That means we need to run more services & have longer trains.
“So that’s eight carriages & we’ll have people queuing in the fan management zone, so we can get them safely on and off public transport. All of those things are in place for the next test event.”
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When is the next test event at Bramley-Moore Dock?
The next test event at Everton’s new ground is actually this Sunday.
The under-21s will play host to Bolton Wanderers’ B team and it will be staged in front of 25,000 supporters.
That’s a big increase on the 10,000 fans that attended the first event, so it’ll be a big test for the staff and local authorities.
Hopefully, the bigger and more regular trains will help to eliminate massive queues and congestion around the area.