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Earlier today at the Merseyside Integrated Transport Authority Meeting (Merseytravel) having been advised that I could, I moved an amendment to a minute calling on the Authority to a) reduce by 5% ALL special responsibility allowances, b)  only to allow motions and amendments from the floor to be voted on if written copies were circulated before the [...]

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At the Merseytravel AGM in June, the Chairman of the Authority read out a statement that related to the Merseytravel One Team One Family (OTOF) restructuring and reorganisation process that is designed to give long term savings to the Authority.   That statement was subsequently sent to all employees of Merseytravel. The Chairmans statement, which you can [...]

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Today at 2:30pm  I will be attending my fourth Merseyside Integrated Transport Authority (MITA) Annual General Meeting, being held at Merseytravel Headquarters in Hatton Garden in Liverpol.    Amongst other things the AGM determines the make up of the committee structure for the coming year.   This year, perhaps more than any other year, and in view of the [...]

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Today, along with my colleague Cllr Ian Lewis I attended the Integrated Transport Authority Budget meeting,  (Merseytravel).     At the meeting, having been told earlier in the week by the Director of Resources, that a 10p cut in Class One tolls was ‘Affordable’ and could be funded by ‘built in head room/Capital’ we moved an amendment [...]

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Readers of the blog and the wider community will recall that I revealed that the Chief Exec and Director of Resorces for Merseytravel had told me that they would not be recommending to the full authority an increase in tunnel tolls this year.   The final decision of course remains with the 18 elected Members who serve [...]

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I have been informed by Merseytravel’s Director of Resources, that current tolls paid will NOT BE INCREASED this year.     So for cars the toll will remain at £1.40 per journey or £1.25 for those who use the ‘Fast Tag’ Clearly I am delighted with that news, however we have to remember that at last years [...]

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Late last week, in my role as Leader of the Conservative Group on Merseytravel, I was delighted to attend a presentation at Claire House in Bebington.    The event was to present a cheque for £80,000 to Claire House, the money donated by Merseytravel was raised by people who had taken part in the Merseytravel Under and [...]

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This morning, along with my colleagues, Leah Fraser, Ian Lewis, Paul Hayes and James Keeley I attended the protest, which was held on the bridge in Oakdale Road overlooking the Wallasey Tunnel, against the increase in Mersey Tunnel Tolls, which came into effect today. The protest was organised by the Mersey Tunnels Users Association, (MTUA) and was [...]

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