Robinson sets out to restore

Merseytravel’s new chair, Liam Robinson, is shaking up the organisation following two critical reviews into how the public transport body has been run in recent years. Andrew Forster reports

Andrew Forster

09 November 2012

Robinson: addressing concerns about the way Merseytravel has been run

One of the first things Liam Robinson did on being appointed chairman of Merseytravel this summer was commission two reviews into the way the organisation has been run in recent years. The Labour councillor from Liverpool stepped into the Integrated Transport Authority’s hot seat after Mark Dowd, who had been chair of the ITA for 20 years, was forced out by Labour colleagues who said he had failed to address a “number of significant concerns about how power has been exercised...