Overview

As we work towards a green/low-carbon travel recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, we are working to make public transport quicker, easier, and more reliable. The cross-city routes will reduce the need to change buses in Birmingham city centre which will make bus travel more attractive and benefit almost 40 million passengers per year.

We are working together with Transport for West Midlands on proposed schemes that aim to open new and direct bus links in, around and across Birmingham city centre.

In the West Midlands, the government has committed to fund a series of new bus priority measures. These schemes are the beginning of a journey to free buses from delays in the city centre and support the wider delivery of cross-city bus routes across the West Midlands.

These schemes will provide new bus only roads, junction upgrades and enhanced waiting facilities. Currently the proposals are in the early feasibility stages where we are identifying designs for bus, cycle, hackney cabs, and motorcycle priority.