road safety emergency
Campaign win: Healthy Streets funding increase!
Cabinet agrees to increase ward-level street change funding to £50k per year per councillor, a key step to address the road safety emergency
Birmingham City Council
road safety emergency
Marking two years of the road safety emergency
More than 50 residents, politicians and officers turned out yesterday afternoon in Victoria Square for a moving event to mark the second anniversary of Birmingham's road safety emergency. The event happened within the context of a grim string of fatal collisions. The latest being a 68-year-old
20mph
Statement: 20's plenty for Birmingham
20mph means calmer, safer and easier to cross residential streets where fewer crashes happen. Crashes that do happen are less severe. This couldn’t be more important in a city where someone dies in a crash every fortnight on average while someone is seriously injured every single day. The first
Birmingham City Council
Council publishes transport delivery update
Find out what's in, out and coming sooner for transport in Birmingham
statement
Our message to the new cabinet team for transport
An email that sets out the importance of the road safety emergency, delivery of the Birmingham Transport Plan and our priorities for transport in the city.
Campaign
Political leaders: Please appoint a cabinet member for Healthy Streets
This is an open letter sent to council group leaders on 19 May 2026. Demerging the environment and transport portfolios to create a Cabinet Member for Healthy Streets Dear group leaders, We are writing as several of you are working towards an agreement to govern the city following the local
podcast
Ep. 13 - Birmingham 2026: Manifestos reviews
In this special edition, Chair Martin Price and campagin lead Lucy Caldicott review the various party's manifesto pledges on transport ahead of the all out Birmingham City Council elections on May 7th.
Elections
A guide to getting stuff done in transport
Advice for the public and political candidates for how to achieve things with the roads and transport.
Consultation
Our response to plans for the Knowledge Quarter
We have submitted this in reply to the Birmingham Knowledge Quarter Accessibility Consultation, which closes on 1 March 2026. We would like to have our response considered to be in favour of this scheme, though we have significant reservations about aspects of the proposed design that we would like to
General
Making sense of Birmingham's transport funding
We look ahead to 2032 following the publication of two key reports outlining transport capital funding from 2026 to 2032.
General
Introducing our podcast: first three episodes out now!
We’re really pleased to shared our new podcast where we’ll be talking to residents, activists and experts about experiencing Britain’s motor city outside a car.
General
Transport in Birmingham - Looking ahead to 2026
As we head into 2026, our Chair looks back at Birmingham’s transport achievements in 2025 and what we can expect in a pivotal year for the city.