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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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Merseyside Police and Crime Plan 2017 - 2021
In 2017, road safety was added to the new Police and Crime Plan as a police and crime priority.
The Merseyside Police and Crime Plan 2017 - 2021 [1] was published in March 2017. The four police and crime priorities of the previous Plan were increased to five by the addition of "Working in partnership to improve road safety".
This followed consultation in December 2016 / January 2017, during which 89% of respondents agreed with making road safety a priority.
Commitment given
By 2021 we will:
- Have stronger, more effective working relationships with road safety partners
- Influence the use of engineering to drive down the number of people killed or seriously injured on our roads
- Use enforcement strategically to change attitudes, encouraging people to drive in a safer way
- Work with partners to improve education and awareness surrounding road safety issues.
Background information
The Plan includes the background information that- more than 500 people are killed or suffer serious injuries on Merseyside's roads each year [the latest figures are 599 in 2016]
- In comparison with Greater Manchester, cyclists and older road users (60+) are almost twice as likely to become casualties in Merseyside
- pedestrians are also more likely to be injured in Merseyside.
It is progress to see recognition that Merseyside casualties are worse that in comparable areas. Too many Merseyside road safety documents have given a biased summary of the situation.
Reference
[1] The Plan can be obtained from http://www.merseysidepcc.info/home/down-to-business/police-and-crime-plan.aspx or from here.Last updated: 12 Jan 2020
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