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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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Best practice options: 20mph speed limits
It has been clear for some time that choosing 30mph as the default urban speed limit was a blunder, resulting in large numbers of deaths and injuries, and a public health disaster from the deterrence of walking and cycling. Lowering the speed limit in residential areas from 30mph to 20mph:
- is effective in reducing casualties e.g. the 40% reduction in road casualties in the study of London's 20mph zones [1]
- works well in the Netherlands (and elsewhere) where the 30kph limits contribute to the large numbers of children walking and cycling and the healthy population.
- has the support of a large proportion of the population e.g. in the 2015 British Social Attitudes Survey [2]:
The figures for 20mph speed limits were:
| Strongly in favour / In favour | 68 |
| Neither in favour nor against | 15 |
| Against / Strongly against | 13 |
| Can’t choose / Not answered | 4 |
So, 20mph limits with compliance should by now be the norm in residential areas in the UK.
References
[1] www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b4469[2] British Social Attitudes Survey 2015: Public attitudes towards transport (2017) Department for Transport (page 27)
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/586193/british-social-attitudes-survey-2015.pdf
Percentages and changes over time can be downloaded from https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/640245/att0359.ods
[3] DfT Circular 01/2013 Setting local speed limits (2013) https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/63975/circular-01-2013.pdf
Last updated: 12 Jan 2020
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