People walking and cycling across Merseyside feel promises of a active travel revolution are "decades away."
Susan Kirkham, from Oxton, got a cargo bike over a year ago and has now done over 1,000 miles. Often taking her children Sylvia and Terry with her, she said: “You get given a lot more room on the cargo bike. There’s a lot of positive reaction from people who say "what is that?." There’s a couple of times where people come too close but nowhere near as much as when I am on my own.”
She said seperated cycle routes to work places would make things safer, adding: “We are going to lose more people on the roads unless we make it safer. There’s no easy option. There’s no magic solution but we have got to try. “It has been little bits. You have got to look at the roads going down to the prom. There’s little bits here and there but nothing of the likes I could take my grandchildren on. We are fortunate to have the promenade but to encourage people to walk and drop their cars, we are decades away.”
She said smaller initiatives improving streets in communities would help, adding: “If you do not feel safe for 500 metres, you won’t even start. Some people choose not to travel and stay in their area because of it. He said despite promises about the delivery of active travel infrastructure, he argued “people are being let down on every level" with little evidence of progress pointing to increasing rates of people killed and seriously injured in Merseyside.
Merseyside’s Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell said improving road safety was a priority for her and Metro Meyor Steve Rotheram. In 2022, they launched the Vision Zero trategy which aims to ensure no one is killed or seriously unjured on the road by 2040.
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