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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: Safe System approach to road safety
The traditional approach to road safety
The now-discredited traditional approach to road safety is to accept that roads are dangerous places, and to assume that they can be made acceptably safe by setting rules, training users, and expecting users to follow the rules; if casualties occur, the assumptions is that one or more of the road users was to blame for not following the set rules.The Safe System approach to road safety
In the Safe System approach to road safety, it is accepted that people have lapses of concentration and make errors of judgement (”make mistakes”), and so inevitably will not always act as hoped for. Roads are designed so that when users have not acted as expected, this does not result in deaths or serious injuries. If casualties occur, unless road users have been deliberately reckless, attention is given to what changes to the roads could have prevented the serious injury or death.This is internationally regarded as best practice: it is recommended by the World Health Organisation and the OECD, and it is the basis of the Swedish Vision Zero and Dutch Sustainable Safety road safety plans.
Systematic Safety in the Netherlands
This is an 8 minute Youtube video on the Dutch system (which is also used in many other places) - it is written for a North American audience but it is still very relevant to the UK. (Click on the image or see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aNtsWvNYKE)
Last updated: 12 Jan 2020
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