I am trying to unravel the public confusion around Merseytravels Members allowances. Confusion what confusion? Well at the AGM the amendments made by myself and the Lib Dems calling for an Independent Review Panel (IRP) to be set up were all defeated by the 13 Labour Members who voted for increases in allowances paid to members. [...]
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Fact or Fiction?
Posted in Merseytravel, tagged Allowances, Cllr Mark Dowd, Merseytravel, Wirral Council on July 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Merseytravel AGM – Part Two, Localism for Merseyrail
Posted in Merseytravel, tagged Merseyrail Electrics, Merseytravel, Vertical Integration on June 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Prior to yesterdays Merseytravel AGM Members of Merseytravel attended a workshop which looked at status of Merseytravel and Merseyrail taking over the Infrasture of the track and train in a single local accountable body (Vertical integration) This would ensure greater responsiveness to local circumstances, enable a longer term approach to asset maintenance, renewals and rolling [...]
Merseytravel AGM – Part One
Posted in Merseytravel, tagged Labour, Mark Dowd, Mersey Ferries, Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel AGM on June 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday saw the Merseytravel Annual General Meeting take place at Hatton Garden. One of the more contentious items on the agenda was a report from the Director of Resources, put together at the request of the Chairman of the Authority which would see an increase in Special Responsibility allowances for some Labour Members and the [...]
Mersey Tunnels CCTV
Posted in Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, tagged Birkehead, Kingsway, Liverpool, Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, Queensway, Wallasey on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recently a few people have asked my why CCTV has been installed at all the Toll Booths at the tunnel entrance. The answer as provided by Merseytravel to someone who submitted an FOI is appended below. I trust that answers the question? But if anyone wants any more info then let me know…
Zeebrugge 93
Posted in Merseytravel, tagged Mersey Ferries, Merseytravel, Royal Daffodil, Royal Marines, Zeebrugge on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This morning as a representative of Merseytravel I attended the Royal Marines Remembrance and 93rd anniversary of the raid on Zeebrugge. The service commemorates the actions of Zeebrugge in 1918, and Walcheren in 1944 in the memory of the Royal Marines fallen comrades. The weather was thankfully really good and following the wreath [...]
Merseytravel Budget Meeting – New Labour Vote NO to Pacific Road Arts Centre……
Posted in Merseytravel, Tourism, tagged Birkenhead, Merseytravel, Pacific Road, Taylor Street, Tramway, Wirral Council on February 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Although yesterdays Merseytravel Budget meeting was dominated by the Mersey Tunnel Tolls, there was an exempt report regarding Merseytravels bid to acquire by lease from Wirral Council the Pacific Road Arts Centre, Taylor Street Museum, and Birkenhead Tramway. This report was heard behind closed doors and without any members of the press or public present. [...]
Tunnel Tolls Increased by Labour
Posted in Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, tagged Kingsway, Liverpool, Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, Queensway, Wirral on February 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Despite appeals by the small businesses, tunnels users, me, Mersey Tunnels Users Association, the CBI, MP’s both Labour and Conservatives, and many many others, Labour-led Merseytravel has forced through a rise in tunnel tolls. As the Conservative Group Leader on Merseytravel I moved an amendment calling for a freeze on payable tolls and a reduction of 10p [...]
Taxi for Merseytravel!
Posted in Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, tagged Liverpool, Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, Neil Scales, Tolls, Tunnel Users Association, Wirral on January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
That will be £183.80 – Yeh, but who is paying for it? Readers of the blog will be aware of the Mersey Tunnels report which I blogged about yesterday. In that posting I talked about the report being delayed. Today I have discovered that the cost of getting that late report to the Members of [...]
Merseytravel Budget Meeting – Tunnel Tolls to Rise?
Posted in Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, tagged Kingsway, Liverpool, Mersey Tunnels, Merseytravel, Queensway, Tunnel Tolls, Wirral on January 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
On Thursday this week 3rd February, the Merseyside Integrated Transport Authority (MITA) has its annual budget meeting. As part of that meeting there is a separate report on the Mersey Tunnel Tolls, and the papers always come out at the same time, however this year the Tunnels report was delayed, I am told because the [...]
