Transportation Strategy - in your own area
Transportation in local areas
Transportation policy is not just concerned with the main roads and the railway network in the city. It also covers the networks of residential streets, footpaths and cycle routes, and the journeys that people make on them.
Each year part of the Local Transport Plan, LTP, funding allocation is spent on schemes in local areas to help make accessing local facilities easier. The local transport team have developed a number of small schemes to improve safety and accessibility to schools, local centres and other facilities in local areas.
The following are examples of what we have done since 2007 to make routes to schools safer:
- Built major schemes at Chad Vale Primary School, Kings Norton Boys School, Benson Community School, Plantsbrook Secondary School, George Dixon International School and Sixth Form Centre, George Dixon Junior & Infant School, Christ the King Catholic Primary School, Harborne Primary school, King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, and St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School
- Implemented small measures at more than 70 locations across the city. These works included guardrails, signs and carriageway markings, minor kerb and footway works including dropped kerbs, Traffic Regulation Orders and Keep Clear markings.
The following are examples of what we have done since 2007 to improve accessibility and safety in local areas.
- Implemented cycle stands around the city, most recently in Balsall Heath and various locations in the city centre
- Built a Pelican crossing on Rednal Road, Northfield
- Provided benches on Cartland Road, Selly Oak
- Provided pedestrian crossing facilities at the signal controlled junction of High Street with Metchley Lane, in Harborne, Edgbaston
- Built crossing and footway improvements in Groveley Lane, Northfield
- Upgraded two Zebra crossings on Shirely Road adjacent to the Fox Hollies Leisure Centre to a Pelican crossing, Yardley
- Built a Pelican crossing at Bournville Lane near the park, Selly Oak
- Provided pedestrian refuges and build outs at Lichfield Rd near Sutton Coldfield College, Sutton Coldfield
- Implemented a Pelican crossing on Ridgacre Road near West Boulevard, Edgbaston
- Provided a Pelican crossing at Chester Road/Marshbrook Road, Erdington
- Resurfaced part of the footpath between Oxhill Road and Park Lane, Perry Barr
- Built a Zebra crossing and mini roundabout on Sedgemere Road, Yardley
- Installed solar studs on the Rea Valley Millennium Cycling and Walking Route, from Dogpool Lane to Fordhouse Lane, Selly Oak
- Provided a Toucan crossing and cycle links on A38 Bristol Road South, Northfield
- Implemented pedestrian refuges on Yardley Wood Road, Hall Green
- Built footway protection measures on Sandy Lane and Beeches Road, Perry Barr
- Provided a Zebra crossing for passengers accessing the Jewellery Quarter Station, Ladywood.
Examples of what we will do in 2011/12 to improve accessibility and create safer routes in local areas are:
- Provide cycle access improvements in Rubery Great Park, Northfield
- Improve pedestrian facilities in Glebe Farm Local Centre, Hodge Hill
- Resurface footways in Broomfield Road, Erdington
- Provide environmental improvements on Kings Heath High Street, Hall Green
- Improve pedestrian facilities on Tamworth Road and Whitehorse Common Road, Sutton Coldfield
- Reduce the junction radii on Bournville Lane / Hay Green Lane to assist crossing movements, Edgbaston.
The local programme team has carried out transportation reviews in each of the 10 constituencies with the aim of developing priorities and devising schemes to help make accessing local facilities easier.
The transportation reviews can be accessed through the links on the left.