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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
What the vision should be- 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
Options that should be considered
- 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 on pedestrian casualties- 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
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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Newsletter - 2 November 2017
Merseyside's road safety record continues to be the worst in the country
The Department for Transport has released the road casualty database for 2016 allowing comparisons of Merseyside with other metropolitan counties (such as London and Greater Manchester) and other police areas in Great Britain.
For reported casualties killed or seriously injured, Merseyside is the worst police area for
- Pedestrians - with a rate 59% above the national average
- Child cyclists - with a rate over twice the national average, three times the rate of Manchester and five times the rate of London:
Merseyside is also the worst metropolitan area for
- Child pedestrians - with a rate over twice London's
- Cyclists - nearly twice Manchester's rate
- The total for all road transport modes
For other road transport modes and more details, see the road casualty summary page .
It is not clear why the child cyclist casualty rate is so high in Merseyside. The Merseyside Bikeability programme (cycle training for children) is the largest of its kind in the country according to the BikeRight website - but there do not seem to be comparative figures for rates of children cycling.
Over the last 10 years, the trend in Merseyside casualties has been slightly upwards, and anecdotally, many people feel that driver behaviour has deteriorated.
Inadequate regional road safety strategy published
In July, a new Liverpool City Region Road Safety Strategy (2017 - 2020) was published.
The vision of zero deaths on Merseyside's roads is admirable; and so is the interim target of a reduction in numbers killed or seriously injured from the current 600 approximately to less than 400 by 2020.
However, there are serious concerns that the measures contained in the Strategy are inadequate and will not go far towards achieving the target reduction. These concerns have not yet been addressed.
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims: 19 November
Sunday 19th November is the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. RoadPeace initiated this day of remembrance for crash victims in 1993. It is now a global day of remembrance, and services and events take place throughout the UK and beyond. The Merseyside service takes place in St George’s Hall, Liverpool, in the Concert Room at 2pm.
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Comments:
Comments on Version 1martind 30 Oct 2017 at 11:26
These figures are shocking. Do we have any data or estimates of the rate of children cycling? Is the rate of children cycling in Merseyside higher as in other parts of the UK?
Reply by Ian Campbell 1 Nov 2017 at 19:18
The Merseyside Bikeability programme (cycle training fror children) is the largest of its kind in the country, according to the BikeRight website (https://www.bikeright.co.uk/merseyside/) - but there don't seem to be comparative figures for rates of children cycling.
The Merseyside Bikeability programme (cycle training fror children) is the largest of its kind in the country, according to the BikeRight website (https://www.bikeright.co.uk/merseyside/) - but there don't seem to be comparative figures for rates of children cycling.
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