Safe passage: Travelasfe aims to make bus travel in Merseyside a safer experience

摘要

For several years the Travelsafe initiative on Merseyside was a talking shop rather than an active crime reduction partnership. The scheme was meant to bring together the region's transport operators, the police, passenger transport authority Merseytravel and Merseyside's councils to deal with crime and intimidating behaviour on public transport, particularly buses but nothing was happening, Although it had been in existence since 1995, Travelsafe had failed to put bus crime high on the agenda of the region's councils and the police had tended to regard it as peripheral.