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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

About

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Relevant experience and qualifications

• member of several voluntary and community groups including Wirral Pedestrians Association, Merseyside Cycling Campaign, Transition Town West Kirby, and 20sPlentyForUs
• 15 years as a statistical consultant, assisting about 60 clients with about 200 projects - publications in peer-reviewed journals are listed at www.iancampbell.co.uk
• 15 years as a hospital doctor, specialising in general surgery (qualified as FRCS) and oncology (qualified as FRCR)
• BSc degree in mathematics and statistics (Open University 1994)
• doctorate (MD) on Statistical Analysis of End-Points in Cancer Clinical Trials (1994)
• an interest in road casualty statistics since 2009 (see below).

Relevant road casualty projects

• Setting up the www.travelindependent.org.uk website to publish DfT road casualty data as charts and tables for each police area and each highway authority in order to make road casualty information more readily accessible to voluntary groups and planners
• Setting up the www.pedestriansafety.org.uk website, which includes comparisons of the different police areas and highway authority areas of Great Britain, and discusses best practice.
• Work to improve the statistical analysis of road casualty data including analysis by statistical testing and confidence intervals. This includes an article giving a re-analysis of Portsmouth’s 20mph data to show the benefits of considering random variation when studying road casualty data [1], and an online calculator that draws charts for road casualty data with confidence intervals, and calculates statistical significance [2].

Further details

wacm.org.uk