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.

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.

Birmingham City Council is consulting on plans for contraflow cycling in 3 locations in the city centre. These schemes are on roads with low levels of motor traffic, so there will be no physical segregation. The consultations close on 5th March 2024.

Here is the link for the consultation: Contraflow cycle lanes.

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).