consultation

Add you voice to the call for space for cycling by responding to consultations. Ask for new infrastructure to be made suitable for cyclists of all ages and abilities. Use our response as a template if you are not sure what to write.

Consultation: Moor Street Gateway

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An artist's visualisation of Moor Street Queensway after the proposed redevelopment.

Birmingham City Council is consulting on changes to Moor Street Queensway to create a more welcoming pedestrian-friendly space for the expected shift in passengers from New Street Station to the new HS2 Curzon Street Station. They aim to create a welcoming gateway for people visiting Birmingham on the new high-speed trains, taking advantage of the segmentation of the city center, reducing the volume of private motor traffic, to reallocate road space.

Consultation: Pedestrianising Hurst Street and other city centre plans

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A Google Street View of the Hurst Street and Bromsgrove Street junction in Birmingham from June 2023

Birmingham City Council is consulting on some major plans to pedestrianise most of Hurst Street, as well as introducing more bus gates to reduce motor traffic rat-running through the city centre, pushing ahead with the city centre movement and access strategy. The consultation closes on the 16th August 2024.

Consultation: Digbeth Active Travel

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From the consultation documents, a proposed illustrative view of Fazeley Street looking south-east t

Birmingham City Council (BCC) has put forward some plans for improving active travel conditions (that is, for walking, cycling and wheeling) in Digbeth. The proposals cover the area to the north of Digbeth High Street, up to the canal and the new HS2 station. The consultation closes on Friday 21st Jun 2024, and the link for the consultation is here: Digbeth Active Travel and Streets Consultation.

Connecting Bordesley Green consultation

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A Junction Clogged with Motor Traffic in Bordesley Green

Birmingham City Council (BCC) is consulting on initial proposals for improving walking and cycling conditions in Bordesley, focusing on 5 corridors. From the information in the consultation, called ‘Connecting Bordesley Green’, it seems that this is the first of two consultation stages, so the proposals so far are fairly broad-brush, but feedback now will have a big impact on what direction forward is taken. The consultation will close on Friday 1st March 2024.

Twin consultations Holyhead Traffic Management Schemes

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One way sign on a British street.

Birmingham City Council has two consultations out on proposals for 20mph zones and one-way streets in the Holyhead area (in Handsworth) that aim to tackle rat-running. These two consultations finish on the 10th Dec 2023.

Please take the time to respond to these two consultations (links below). You can give your own feedback on the proposals, or you can say that you support Push Bikes' comments.


Links to the consultations:

Bournville and Cotteridge Places for People

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Oak Tree Lane Modal Filter

The Cadbury brothers intended Bournville to be a pleasant and quiet neighbourhood for the people that lived in it. It has many historic low traffic neighbourhoods, and there are footpaths cutting through between houses everywhere. The Cadbury brothers were keen "cyclers" (to use the contemporary word), but cycling infrastructure wasn't really a thing, because it wasn't needed. Cycling simply outweighed driving as a mode of transport (see photo at the bottom).

Consultation: Enforcement cameras at junctions in Birmingham

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Signs notifying drivers of enforcement cameras for a bus lane.

Birmingham City Council (BCC) is consulting on using new powers granted in May 2022 to local councils to enforce ‘moving traffic offences’ at several locations around the city. Although the law granting councils these powers (the Traffic Management Act) was passed in 2004, until now only Transport for London had been allowed to use the new powers. While previously local councils could use cameras to enforce bus lane restrictions, they will now be able to enforce a range of other traffic restrictions, including driving through ‘No Entry’ signs and taking banned left or right turns.

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