Bravo Bus boss !

The 67 is good bus territory, one of the best bus routes in Birmingham, the appropriately named Steven Rhodes, Bus and Highway Director for Centro, told his audience at the Castle Vale Neighbourhood Partnership meeting.
Mr Rhodes outlined Centro’s ambitious proposals for improving bus services across the West Midlands. These include improving punctuality, more frequent evening [...]

Brum Council encourages cyclists

Birmingham Council is encouraging more people to use bikes to get to work and school. ‘End of trip’ shower and changing facilities at work for cyclists are on the list of items that the Council would like to encourage. They also want a 10% increase in the number of pupils cycling to school …. [...]

Don’t call them ‘parking attendants’!

If you get a parking fine in Birmingham, it won’t be from a parking attendant. It will be from a ‘Civil Enforcement Officer’. This grand change of name coincides with the introduction of a new scale of parking fines, as of April 2008. Your offence will now be labelled a higher offence, (e.g. yellow and [...]

Pavements and potholes: Twice as long to do a third of the work

  It is taking the City Council twice as long to repair potholes and broken pavements, compared with the situation 9 months ago. 79 days is the average time it takes for repairs to be done, compared with 37 days in April and May 2007. The number of reported pothole and pavement problems has dropped [...]

‘ What train station? What campaign?….’

Click here to go to the original article (October 2007), and to Mike Sloyan’s comment (posted 27.03.0 about the ‘plans’ for a train station for Castle Vale.

Easter Train Travel problems

Birmingham train services will be disrupted by engineering works this Easter. In particular, problems on the Walsall line, the Water Orton line, and the Watford line mean that journeys from Birmingham to London, to Nuneaton/Hinckley, and to Walsall will be affected. Full details of engineering works can be found at
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_bulletins/currentAndFuture.html

Local petrol has risen by 11 pence per litre in four months - even before the budget

Motorists are set to face another rise in the cost of petrol after Wednesday’s budget statement by Chancellor Alistair Darling. An increase of two pence per litre is the prediction, though some experts think that he may delay the price hike, as petrol prices will go up anyway as a result of oil reaching a [...]

Parents encouraged to get walking bus project up and running

Parents who have pupils at any of the Castle Vale Primary Schools are being encouraged to support a new ‘walking bus’ project to enable local children to improve their health whilst getting to school via an environmentally friendly form of transport.
Walking buses provide local children with a healthy, safe alternative to get to school that [...]

Road Closure from Spitfire Island

Chester Road North from Spitfire Island to Tyburn Road is closed for road repairs for five days. This will add to congestion caused by vehicle restrictions on the Spine Road which has a single occupancy lane restriction between 7a.m. and 10a.m .

Canals could relieve traffic jams, says transport group

Heavy freight vehicles could use canals in Birmingham instead of roads, according to a study set to be completed by Spring 2008.
Councillor Len Gregory said: “The study highlighted the potential of the re-introduction of freight on lock-free sections of the canal network. In particular,the study identified opportunities for transporting bulk materials, such as construction materials [...]