A blog about Wirral Council, Wirral Council's councillors & officers
A blog about Wirral Council's public meetings, Wirral Council's councillors, Bidston & St. James ward and other public bodies on Merseyside
What are 3 public meetings happening this week about?
Below is a list of details of three public meetings of local government this week by date along with a short commentary on what they are about.
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Councillors call for independent report into Northern Rail timetable changes to be published and RMT union agree to three further days of strike action
Councillors on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s Transport Committee last Thursday afternoon agreed an urgent motion proposed by the Lead Member for Rail and Freight (Cllr Gordon Friel) which you can watch below.
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What were the reasons behind the 24 hour RMT strike over guards on the Merseyrail network?
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RMT strike (Merseyrail and Northern Rail) 3rd March 2018 outside Liverpool Lime Street
Saturday (3rd March 2018) saw another one day strike by RMT on both the Merseyrail and Northern Rail train networks, both strikes are over the issue of guards and public safety.
Pictured above was the protest outside Liverpool Lime Street train station, Liverpool on a cold and snowy morning.
Out talking to the public yesterday in both Liverpool and Southport, I was told by a number of people who instead of taking the Merseyrail train journeys they would normally, they were instead taking buses.
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Councillors recommend 10p rise in Mersey Tunnel cash tolls from 1st April 2018
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Transport Committee (Liverpool City Region Combined Authority) 1st February 2018 Part 1 of 2
The author’s wife has a Fast Tag for the Mersey Tunnels issued on disability grounds, therefore she does not have to pay the tolls referred to below.
Yesterday (at the time of publication which you can watch above) was the annual public meeting where councillors on the Transport Committee (formerly called the Merseytravel Committee) of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority made a recommendation on the Mersey Tunnel tolls (although the final decision will be made after this article is published by a different set of politicians on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority). Continue reading “Councillors recommend 10p rise in Mersey Tunnel cash tolls from 1st April 2018”
What’s in 143 pages of the contract between Merseytravel and Stadler Bussnang AG for new trains that caused the strike?
This continues from Monday’s blog post What’s in 138 pages of the contract between Merseytravel and Stadler Bussnang AG for new trains that caused the strike?
Today is another day of strike action this week on the Merseyrail network.
The strike action stems from a contract for new rolling stock agreed by politicians in December 2016 and signed in February 2017.
Although I published half of what I was given of this contract on Monday, some of it has been withheld on grounds of commercial confidentiality.
Of particular interest at page 299 onwards is the variation procedure (Merseytravel could vary the contract to have the doors operated by the guards if they wished to). On Wednesday the RMT Union published a letter sent by Merseyrail to guards suggesting that they retrain as drivers.
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