Transport

University of Birmingham to be a pilot site for West Midlands bike-share scheme

• 6th April 2018
• News
• building1416, Partner Posts, Transport, west midlands combined authority

The West Midlands is set to benefit from a new bike-share scheme, with the University of Birmingham providing a home for several stations. The scheme, which will be the UK's largest docked bike-share scheme outside London was announced this week by Tra...

nextbike to roll out cycles in the West Midlands

• 20th March 2018
• Kevin Johnson
• Andy Street, Cllr Roger Lawrence, cycling, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Transport, west midlands combined authority, WMCA

The world’s biggest bike-share operator has been chosen to deliver pedal power to the West Midlands, reports Kevin Johnson.  nextbike has been picked by Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), part

Solihull’s plan to create sustainable new urban quarter

• 13th March 2018
• Kevin Johnson
• Andy Street, Birmingham Airport, Councils, Featured, HS2, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Transport, west midlands combined authority, WMCA

Plans to create a new, high-quality and sustainable urban quarter around the HS2 Interchange Station in Solihull take a major step forward today after funding was secured, and the principles

Mayoral ‘congestion-busting partnership’ prepares for HS2

• 2nd March 2018
• Kevin Johnson
• Andy Street, Department for Transport, Featured, HS2, HS2 Birmingham interchange, Laura Shoaf, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Transport, west midlands combined authority, WMCA

Political and transport leaders have met “on a mission to keep the Midlands moving” during the huge HS2 construction programme. Transport minister Jesse Norman MP, Mayor of the West Midlands

Car, Sprint or Streetcars

• 8th February 2018
• Beverley Nielsen
• Andy Street, Featured, Laura Shoaf, Midland Metro, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Transport, WMCA

Beverley Nielsen, the Lib Dem candidate for West Midlands Mayor last year, looks at ‘intermediate options’ on transport for Mayor Street. Historic transport policy decisions in the West Midlands seem

Why should Milton Keynes’ parking charge surpluses be bigger than Birmingham’s?

• 29th November 2017
• Chris Game
• Birmingham City council, Councils, DCLG, Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Transport

In the week when annual parking returns provide the basis for some colourful tabloid headlines, Chris Game looks at the local political balancing act involved in car parking and parking

£80m for Warwick’s new national battery facility

• 29th November 2017
• Kevin Johnson
• Andy Street, Featured, Greg Clark, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, skills, Transport, west midlands combined authority

A partnership between WMG, at the University of Warwick, Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership and Coventry City Council has been awarded £80 million to establish a new National Battery Manufacturing

£1.6bn infrastructure investment plan for UK Central

• 2nd November 2017
• Kevin Johnson
• Birmingham Airport, Featured, HS2, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Transport, WMCA

Details of the vision to create a new urban quarter around the new HS2 Interchange Station in Solihull have been unveiled, with the potential for £1.6bn of infrastructure investment to

The North and Midlands – more in common than divides?

• 29th August 2017
• Kevin Johnson
• #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Burnham, Andy Street, Devolution, Featured, News, Northern Powerhouse, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Transport

When Business Secretary Greg Clark announced that negotiations would start “immediately” on a second devolution deal for the West Midlands, it was taken as confirmation that Andy Street and the

New train operator to replace London Midland

• 10th August 2017
• Kevin Johnson
• Andy Street, Department for Transport, Featured, London Midland, News, Partner Posts, Recommended, Sion Simon, Transport

Rail passengers have been promised new longer trains with more seats and more space as nearly £1 billion is invested in services on the West Midlands network. There will be