Cycling Alliance
Liverpool Primary Care Trust (PCT) and Liverpool City Council have signed a formal agreement at Merseyside Transport Partnership (MTP)'s annual conference on the 13th October, setting out their commitment to increasing cycling levels in the city. The alliance aims to improve quality of life and create a healthy, low carbon city for the future.
Gideon Ben-Tovim, Chair of Liverpool PCT, and Cllr Peter Millea, Liverpool City Council's Executive Member for Assets & Developments, signed the agreement to make Liverpool a Cycling City. The City partners now hope that others will join the alliance so that Merseyside councils and PCTs can work with businesses, universities and cultural and sporting agencies to bring renewed commitment to cycling.
The agreement sets out to generate a 10% increase in trips made by bike before the end of March 2011, compared to journeys in 2006. Working together, MTP (through the TravelWise programme), Liverpool PCT and Liverpool City Council aim to secure support from more than 100 organisations over the remainder of Year of the Environment and during the city's Year of Health and Wellbeing 2010. Delegates at the Merseyside Transport Conference were among the first to sign up to the agreement.
The Alliance is commited to the following:
- We recognise the importance of increasing cycling in Liverpool for economic, health, environmental, and social reasons and that these are mutually beneficial in improving the quality of life in the city and creating a healthy, low carbon city for the future.
- We will endeavour to make Liverpool a Cycling City so that residents and visitors have a healthier, vibrant and more attractive city where there is a real choice of cycling for local journeys available to them and where a cycle ride for short trips and for pleasure is a popular and respected choice.
- We will use our own investment and influence to ensure that there is a step-change for cycling, looking at the built and natural environment to improve physical conditions for cycling.
- We will promote the many benefits and reasons for cycling to residents, employees and visitors alike.
- We will promote Liverpool Cycling City to other organisations and individuals including local media encouraging 10 new organisations a month to join during 2009/2010.
- We will actively participate in Liverpool Cycling City in order to achieve a 10% increase in trips made by cycle, compared to 2006, by 31st March 2011.
The following organisations have signed up to the alliance;
- 2020 Liverpool
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Aurora Media
- Breckfield & North Everton Neighbourhood Council
- Cycling Solutions
- FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology)
- Faiths4Change
- Government Office North West
- Greenbank College
- Heart of Mersey
- HMP Altcourse
- Liverpool Bicycle Co-operative
- Liverpool Biennial
- Liverpool Chamber of Commerce & Industry
- Liverpool City Council
- Liverpool Community & Voluntary Services
- Liverpool First
- Liverpool John Moores University
- Liverpool ONE
- Liverpool Primary Care Trust
- Liverpool Women's Foundation NHS Trust
- Mersey Care NHS Trust
- Mersey Forest
- Merseyside Cycling Campaign
- Merseyside Environmental Trust
- Merseyside Sports Partnership
- Merseytravel
- North Liverpool Cycle Club
- Open Culture
- Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen Hospitals NHS Trust
- Shop Direct Group
- Sustrans
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- University of Liverpool
- Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
For more details click here, to join the alliance please fill in the online form below;
To discuss joining the alliance contact;
Jane Moore
TravelWise Co-ordinator
TravelWise Merseyside
Tel: 0151 330 1253, Email: jane.moore@merseytravel.gov.uk
Sarah Dewar
Third Sector & Environmental Sustainability Lead
Liverpool Primary Care Trust
Tel: 0151 295 8604, Email: sarah.dewar@liverpoolpct.nhs.uk
Cycling Alliance Signing
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