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It’s a new year: new commissioners and new task forces full of experts are on the horizon. We’re almost there, eight months after the Mayor committed to replacing ex-commissioner Adam Tranter. While we’ve been awaiting new commissioners, Birmingham has declared a road safety emergency (in its
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Critical commissioner roles for the West Midlands are to be filled by once-a-week volunteers reporting to a volunteer task force, in what appears to be a significant and disappointing downgrade to the previous Cycling and Walking Commissioner position. The active travel role has been reduced from three-days-
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We welcome our city and regional authorities' renewed commitments to tackling the road safety emergency in response to our open letter. However, declaring that there is an emergency and therefore admitting we have a serious problem is the easy part. We’ve been here before. Last year, following another
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Following our open letter, we received a joint reply from the addressees and a separate reply from the Police and Crime Commissioner Joint reply from the Mayor, Police and Crime Commissioner and Council leaders240802_Better-Streets-for-Birmingham-Open-Letter-26th-July-2024-Response.pdf879 KBdownload-circleSeparate reply from the
Newsletters
Action on Wake Green/Yardley Wood Road This particular location has been identified as a hotspot for dangerous driving by local residents. It was decided at committee that the next BSfB action would take place here as part of the national Safe Streets Now campaign. The action was attended by
Elections
With less than a week to go until the West Midlands Mayor election on Thursday 2 May, we've been paying close attention to the mayoral candidates and their stances on active travel, public transport and road safety. We've also had the chance to unpick some of
General
All recipients have replied to our open letter - we have . Councillor John Cotton, Council Leader, Birmingham City Council Councillor Liz Clements, Cabinet Member for Transport, Birmingham City Council Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands and West Midlands Mayoral Candidate 2024 Richard Parker, West Midlands Mayoral Candidate 2024 Sent by
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On 19 December 2023, we held a webinar with Sergeant Jordan Keen, who leads the Allegations of Driving Standards team within the Traffic Investigation Unit at West Midlands Police. This is our write-up of the webinar, which has been edited to make it easier to read. About the Allegations
Consultation
We are strongly in favour of Birmingham City Council's proposal to reduce 25 outlier 40mph roads to 30mph. The proposed measures will lead to lower speeds on our city’s streets through a consistent city-wide maximum speed limit and ultimately save lives. We believe this is a
FOI
In Birmingham, every councillor has a budget of £10,000 per year to make minor improvements to road safety in their ward. Councillors now also get £20,000 per year to spend on clean air measures through the Brum Breathes Fund. They have to add measures to their ward plan