Category: Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Councillors decide to end public meeting early and receive private briefing on possible £50 million overspend on works for new trains

Councillors decide to end public meeting early and receive private briefing on possible £50 million overspend on works for new trains

Councillors decide to end public meeting early and receive private briefing on possible £50 million overspend on works for new trains

                                              

Cllr Tom Crone (LCRCA Overview and Scrutiny Committee) 15th January 2020
Cllr Tom Crone (LCRCA Overview and Scrutiny Committee) 15th January 2020
 

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Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee 15th January 2020 Part 2 of 2

By John Brace – Local Government Sketch Writer

Scrutiny of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and its proposed budget wasn’t going to happen in public today (15th January 2020). Why? Because the Chair of its Overview and Scrutiny Committee Cllr Tom Crone decided to end the meeting early (partly because not enough councillors turned up to be quorate).

This was despite advice from the Monitoring Officer Jill Coule that the Scrutiny Committee could discuss the proposed budget at yet another inquorate meeting.
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Councillors expected to freeze Mersey Tunnel tolls in 2019 and not increase LCRCA element of council tax

Councillors expected to freeze Mersey Tunnel tolls in 2019 and not increase LCRCA element of council tax

Councillors expected to freeze Mersey Tunnel tolls in 2019 and not increase LCRCA element of council tax

                               

Councillors on the LCRCA Transport Committee setting the Mersey Tunnel tolls in 2018
Councillors on the LCRCA Transport Committee setting the Mersey Tunnel tolls in 2018

In papers to be published later today (8th January 2019), councillors on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Transport Committee will be recommended to freeze tunnel tolls. The decision itself however will be made by Mayor Steve Rotheram and representatives of councils in the city region.

Although tunnel tolls are expected to stay the same for residents using a Fast Tag from the Liverpool City Region, there is expected to be a rise in the toll charged for residents from outside the region or not using the Fast Tag.

A recommendation not to increase the amount of council tax that goes to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority from local residents is also expected to be made.

However as there will be an election in May 2020 for the post of Liverpool City Region Mayor – it was expected that in an election year that neither the Mersey Tunnel tolls or council tax would rise.

The formal decisions at a public meeting by politicians on these matters will happen later this month.

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Cllr Simic describes Liverpool City Council response to 82C, 82D and 86D bus route campaign as a “bit inhuman” and that Liverpool City Council are behaving like “bureaucrats”

Cllr Simic describes Liverpool City Council response to 82C, 82D and 86D bus route campaign as a “bit inhuman” and that Liverpool City Council are behaving like “bureaucrats”

Cllr Simic describes Liverpool City Council response to 82C, 82D and 86D bus route campaign as a “bit inhuman” and that Liverpool City Council are behaving like “bureaucrats”

                                 

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Regeneration and Sustainability Select Committee (Liverpool City Council) 19th December 2019 Part 1 of 4

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Merseytravel “expect” works on accessibility improvements at Birkenhead Park, Broad Green, Hillside, St Michael’s and Hunts Cross train stations to be finished by the end of “October 2021”

Merseytravel “expect” works on accessibility improvements at Birkenhead Park, Broad Green, Hillside, St Michael’s and Hunts Cross train stations to be finished by the end of “October 2021”

Merseytravel “expect” works on accessibility improvements at Birkenhead Park, Broad Green, Hillside, St Michael’s and Hunts Cross train stations to be finished by the end of “October 2021”

                                    

John Brace at Birkenhead Park Train Station (January 2008) pointing out accessibility issues
John Brace at Birkenhead Park Train Station (January 2008) pointing out accessibility issues

Above you will see a somewhat youthful photo of myself campaigning in January 2008 for improvements to Birkenhead Park Train Station (in relation to the stepped ramp that passengers have to use to and from the platforms).

These steps cause problems for wheelchair users, cyclists and mothers with pushchairs as there is no lift at this train station.
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Why is Merseytravel using an unlicensed security company to do “security guarding” at its Mann Island Headquarters?

Why is Merseytravel using an unlicensed security company to do “security guarding” at its Mann Island Headquarters?

Why is Merseytravel using an unlicensed security company to do “security guarding” at its Mann Island Headquarters?

                                 

1 Mann Island, Headquarters of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Merseytravel
1 Mann Island, Headquarters of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Merseytravel

Above is a picture of the outside of 1 Mann Island which are the leased headquarters of Merseytravel and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. Merseytravel have a contract with a company called Carlisle Security Services Limited (33 pages of the contract supplied by Merseytravel are below) to provide a “Concierge and Porter Service” for 1 Mann Island (their headquarters) pictured above.
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