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• Transport partners help thousands into work

Thousands of people have been helped to get jobs through innovative transport projects, the Merseyside Local Transport Plan (LTP) Partnership’s quarterly breakfast briefing has been told.

Helping people into work, to education, training and to other services was the theme of the event, held at the Hard Days Night Hotel in Liverpool on 9 July.

Merseyside LTP Partnership and Halton Council won Beacon status from the Government earlier this year for their groundbreaking access work.

The Merseyside LTP Partnership consists of Merseytravel and the five district councils of Merseyside – Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, and Wirral.

The briefing was told how council neighbourhood travel teams have helped more than 3,600 people into work through schemes such as free public transport passes, loans of bicycles and scooters and “how to get to” guides. Four fifths of the people helped into work in this way stayed in their jobs after the scheme had finished.

Speakers from the partnership and Government Office for the North West showed how these and many other projects are helping to provide access for all to employment, education, health and other services.

Further information and copies of the presentations are available to view on the Transport Merseyside website.