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A protest campaign over poor walking and cycling safety

• Children are being harmed on Merseyside's roads: Who's responsible?
• Why a protest campaign is needed
• Civil disobedience and road safety: Q and A

Effective road safety planning: what should be happening

• A road safety vision
• Walking safely is a basic human right
• Declaration of every child's right to safe and healthy streets

• Decision making in a democracy: 7 Principles of Public Life
• Effective road safety planning
• What constitutes proper consultation
• Public bodies should avoid 'The patronising disposition of unaccountable power': the Hillsborough Report by the Right Reverend James Jones

• Merseyside road casualties - summary
• Merseyside road casualty maps
• Merseyside pedestrian casualties: the worst in Great Britain
• Merseyside child pedestrian casualties: the third worst in Great Britain
• Liverpool pedestrian casualties: the worst metropolitan borough
• Merseyside cyclist casualties: bottom third position
• Merseyside child cyclist casualties: the fifth worst in Great Britain
• Cyclist casualties: Liverpool is the worst metropolitan borough
• Motorcyclist casualties: Merseyside is the worst metropolitan area
• Motorcyclist casualties: The Wirral is the second worst metropolitan borough
• Car occupant casualties in Merseyside
• Total (all modes) road casualties: Merseyside is the worst metropolitan area
• Total (all modes) road casualties: Liverpool is the third worst metropolitan borough

• Pavement parking: Questions and answers
• Childhood obesity levels in Merseyside
• Deaths from air pollution in Merseyside

• Previous Merseyside road safety strategies

• Best practice options: policy documents
• Best practice options: Safe System approach to road safety
• Best practice options: 20mph speed limits
• Best practice options: 20mph speed limits: Pedestrian fatality risk and impact speed
• Best practice options: 20mph speed limits: Recommendations
• Best practice options: cycling infrastructure
• Best practice options: actions by police forces against illegal pavement parking
• Best practice options: regulated (permitted) pavement parking

Merseyside road safety failures

• Why children are suffering so much harm from the danger on Merseyside's roads
• Liverpool City Region Road Safety Strategy 2017-2020
• Liverpool City Region Local Journeys Strategy
• Liverpool Council never completed its Inquiry into poor road casualty figures
• Liverpool Council: Appalling cycling infrastructure
• Wirral Council road safety malpractice
• Wirral Council's failing road safety scrutiny committee
• Merseyside Police: failure of public engagement: a case history
• Improvements needed from Merseyside Police
• Why are road safety volunteers having so little effect?

Merseyside / national road safety failures

• How changes in the Highway Code caused the pavement parking confusion
• Why the Living Streets / Guide Dogs pavement parking campaign is inept and dangerous
• Flawed DfT "Consultation" on pavement parking
• Two child pedestrian deaths from pavement parking
• The 2018 Atkins/AECOM/Mayer 20mph Research Study was seriously flawed

Merseyside road safety concerns

• So-Mo project outline
• So-mo project to reduce pedestrians killed or seriously injured on Liverpool's roads: Concerns and questions
• So-Mo meeting on 16th March 2018: Response by Liverpool Pedestrians Association
• So-Mo reports of May 2018: Response by Liverpool Pedestrians Association

Merseyside road safety improvements

• Merseyside Police and Crime Plan 2017 - 2021
• Merseyside Police leading the way in tackling pavement parking

Taking action on poor road safety

• Campaigning for walking and cycling safety in Merseyside
• Non-violent direct action

Current campaigns

• Voluntary groups
• Vision Zero Merseyside 2013
• Letter to Jane Kennedy and Steve Rotheram re LCR road safety strategy
• Letter to Jane Kennedy and Steve Rotheram: Replies from Jane Kennedy, Steve Rotheram and Sean Traynor
• Meeting notes: Merseyside Road Safety Partnership with Liverpool Pedestrians Association, 27 March 2018

Newsletters

• Newsletters: contents
• Newsletter - August 2018
• Newsletter - 16 December 2017
• Newsletter - 23 November 2017
• Newsletter - 2 November 2017

News

• PCC Scrutiny Group meeting 5 December 2017 - Provisional
• Highlights of the 9th 20mph conference in Birmingham, 8 March 2017
• Merseyside Police Performance and Scrutiny Group meeting of 2 March 2017

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Previous Merseyside strategies and related documents

• First Local Transport Plan (2000) Download from here.

• Second Local Transport Plan (2006) Download from here.

• Third Local Transport Plan (2011) Download from the Merseytravel website or from here. This included a vision "where sustainable travel is the option of choice" but has resulted in very little progress in this direction.

• Liverpool City Region A Transport Plan for Growth (c. 2014) Download from here.

• Liverpool City Region Local Journeys Strategy (2017) - see https://wacm.org.uk/23.html

Current Merseyside road safety strategy

wacm.org.uk