The Strategy was adopted at the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority meeting on 14 July 2017.

The vision is that there will be:-
A reduction in the numbers of those killed and seriously injured to fewer than 400 by 2020, with the ultimate vision of a future where no-one is killed on Merseyside's roads and the injury rate is reduced.

It can be downloaded from here.

Concerns that have been expressed include:

• the lack of consultation in producing the Strategy
• the poverty of aspiration displayed by the Strategy - there is a stated aspiration to reduce casualties but no apparent aspiration to reduce the dominance of motor vehicles on our roads
• the exclusion of child pedestrians from the groups that have been identified as areas of concern - ignoring the poor position of Merseyside in having the second worst child pedestrian rate of KSIs per 100,000 children [1]
• the emphasis on blaming road users rather than reducing road danger
• the small number of new measures, insufficent to lead to the targets set out
• the lack of any reference to 20mph speed limits - in comparison, Bristol's plan [2] has 7 references.

References

[1] Pedestrian Safety website: figures are for 2011-2015; Merseyside had a rate 73% above the national average http://www.pedestriansafety.org.uk/casualties_by_police_area.html

[2] Bristol City Council (2015) A Safe System Approach to Road Safety in Bristol: A Ten Year Plan 2015-2024 download from here

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