Campaign
We submitted evidence to Birmingham City Council's Sustainability and Transport Overview and Scrutiny Committee inquiry into active travel delivery. We also attended a roundtable with the committee and other stakeholders on Thursday 7 September 2023. Better Streets for Birmingham's submission to the Active Travel Delivery InquiryThis
Consultation
Community group responds to the Bournville and Cotteridge Places for People Consultation. If you agree with it and want to support it, include a link to this page in your before 2 July 2023. Summary * The scheme is not a Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN), which was promised. A coherent area
Consultation
Our consultation response to the Bournville and Totteridge Places for People Scheme. We support the aims of the scheme to make residential areas safer for pedestrians and cyclists while making them more pleasant to live in. We explain our concerns about the scheme's implementation.
Consultation
Dear Transport for West Midlands Our response to the WMLTP5 “six big moves” consultation Better Streets for Birmingham supports the objectives and six ‘big moves’ within the West Midlands Local Transport Plan 5 (WMLTP5). It is of existential importance that access to safe and sustainable travel is improved drastically and
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As ever with these schemes, there’s no detail as to why each design decision has been made, so the usual disclaimer applies that we’re sorry if there’s a good reason for each decision, but it’s not obvious from the design. We cannot stress enough that we
Consultation
The proposals are for Birmingham City Council to enforce various traffic offences through automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras. Once the Council has been successful in acquiring these powers, it will be able to consider and process further sites in batches on a local level. The Council will run consultations
Consultation
Better Streets for Birmingham is a volunteer community group that campaigns for changes to our travel and planning infrastructure to improve the sustainability, efficiency and safety of our streets. By identifying, supporting and advocating for changes to our environment that enable car-free journeys, we aim to make active travel
Consultation
This is our response to the Moseley local centre public consultation that closes on 30 September 2022. If you agree with our response, you can respond to the consultation with a link to this page. Better Streets for Birmingham recognises the vital importance of east-west cycle routes from the
Consultation
Russell Road is a dangerous road despite having a 20mph speed limit. It is choked with traffic during rush hour and suffers from horrendous speeding. Drivers adhering to the speed limit are regularly tailgated and overtaken. Cycling on it results in a litany of illegally close passes. There is a
Consultation
As we say in our bio, Better Streets for Birmingham aims to tackle our city's car dependency problem. The biggest key to breaking our culture of car dependency is to make it considerably safer and easier to cycle round the city, especially for those shorter journeys that we
Consultation
We would like to raise a strong objection to the newly announced plans for making permanent the suspension of parking bays in Kings Heath. We are fully behind permanently removing parking spaces from High Streets in shopping areas, it has made the High Street nicer to use, but we have