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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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Road Safety Strategy: Replies from Jane Kennedy, Steve Rotheram and Sean Traynor
In response to the September 2017 letter to Jane Kennedy and Steve Rotheram (https://wacm.org.uk/19.html) expressing concern about the new Strategy, the following replies have been received. Meetings with Jane Kennedy and Sean Traynor have taken place.Reply from Jane Kennedy, 17 Oct 2017:
Thank you for your correspondence regarding the Liverpool City Region Road Safety Strategy 2017-2020. I apologise for the delay in responding.
I was interested to read your observations and will forward them to the Merseyside Road Safety Partnership for their consideration.
I support the "Vision Zero" approach to road safety. If it would be helpful, I would like to extend an invitation for a meeting with you and your colleagues to discuss the issue. If you would like to contact my office directly via email to info@merseysidepcc.info, a date for a meeting can be arranged.
I hope that this is helpful.
Yours sincerely,
Jane Kennedy
Police & Crime Commissioner, Merseyside
I was interested to read your observations and will forward them to the Merseyside Road Safety Partnership for their consideration.
I support the "Vision Zero" approach to road safety. If it would be helpful, I would like to extend an invitation for a meeting with you and your colleagues to discuss the issue. If you would like to contact my office directly via email to info@merseysidepcc.info, a date for a meeting can be arranged.
I hope that this is helpful.
Yours sincerely,
Jane Kennedy
Police & Crime Commissioner, Merseyside
Reply from Steve Rotheram, 18 Oct 2017:
Thank you for your e-mail on the LCR Road Safety Strategy2017-2020 and the points you highlight.
I note that Jane Kennedy has contacted you direct, has forwarded your observations to the Merseyside Road Safety Partnership and offered to meet you to discuss the issue.
I hope you find the meeting constructive on the concerns you express.
Yours sincerely
Steve Rotheram
Metro Mayor
I note that Jane Kennedy has contacted you direct, has forwarded your observations to the Merseyside Road Safety Partnership and offered to meet you to discuss the issue.
I hope you find the meeting constructive on the concerns you express.
Yours sincerely
Steve Rotheram
Metro Mayor
Email from Sean Traynor, 17 Oct 2017
With regards to your representations to the Merseyside PCC and Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor, as vice-chair of the Merseyside Road Safety Partnership I would like to arrange a meeting to discuss your concerns. I shall be grateful therefore if you could provide suitable dates/times over the coming weeks.
Regards
Sean Traynor
Head of Highways and Transportation
Knowsley Council
Regards
Sean Traynor
Head of Highways and Transportation
Knowsley Council
Meeting with Jane Kennedy, 16 Nov 2017
The agreed meeting notes are at http://www.wirralpedestrians.org.uk/meeting_notes_16_nov_2017.html.
Meeting with Sean Traynor, 27 Nov 2017
The agreed meeting notes are at http://wirralpedestrians.org.uk/meeting_notes_27_nov_2017.html.
These meetings and one subsequent meeting with Sean Traynor have not resulted in any improvement in the road safety "strategy".
Last updated: 16 Dec 2018
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