On Friday 20th August more that 1,000 people gathered together on Rimrose Valley to make their views known and to hear from speakers that included local MPs and Councillors, national environmental groups and transport campaigners.
We heard about the non-road alternatives that Highways England want to ignore. And calls for parity in how transport schemes are funded by central government in the north and the south.
Reported as the ‘largest anti-road demonstration in decades’ the crowds then marched to the gates of Peel Ports, the major beneficiary of this devastatingly dangerous scheme. The call of the protesters was that Peel Ports acknowledge their role in supporting the road proposal and join the communities the scheme will affect the most by opposing it. The communities that live around the Port of Liverpool.
This is the story of that day. The speakers, the marchers, the children, the families. All with one voice. We said No.