City centre to Small Heath Park (A45 corridor)
Project Overview
The City Centre to Small Heath Park cycle lane will improve and make permanent the pop-up cycle lane that is currently in place, parallel to the A45. This project is funded by the Active Travel Fund.
The cycle lane is located on a section of temporary pop-up cycle lane that was introduced in 2020 along the A45 Corridor, between Bordesley Middleway and Small Heath Park. The lane follows a route past Bordesley Circus, then via Small Heath Highway, Bolton Road, Byron Road, and Tennyson Road.
In February 2024, we consulted on the Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) associated with the project. TROs are the legal documents required to make changes to the status of the road.
The TROs in this consultation included changes to:
- parking restrictions
- speed cushions
- traffic movements
You can view the TRO consultation on Be Heard
Current Proposals
Under the current proposal, the two-way cycle lane will be retained on Bolton Road, but the light segregation from motor vehicles will be replaced with a full kerb separation. Sections of footways will be widened on Small Heath Highway to provide a segregated cycle track from pedestrians and permanent tarmac surfacing will also be provided where the route previously diverted away onto grass verges.
Where the route continues along Byron Road, a section of double yellow lines will be provided to improve safety on the approach leading to Small Heath Park.
New and improved traffic signals will also be provided as part of the project. The two existing controlled pedestrian crossings on Coventry Road and Small Heath Highway located on the eastern and southern approaches to Bordesley Circus will be upgraded to toucan crossings to provide an improved link to Bolton Road.
The junction of Bolton Road with Small Heath Bridge and Jenkins Street will be changed from a priority junction to a fully signal-controlled junction. It will include a dedicated cycle phase system to provide safer cycle movements across the junction, along the Bolton Road two-way cycle lane. This will be achieved by signals letting vehicular traffic, pedestrians and cyclists know when to go and when to stop. This system will also allow for the removal of the one-way traffic system on Bolton Road, which was introduced in 2020.
Details of the proposed improvements along the route are shown on the drawings below. These maps are not accessible. If you would like an officer to explain the contents of the maps to you, email Transport.Projects@birmingham.gov.uk:
As part of these works, a number of trees have been removed on Small Heath Highway and Bolton Road, to enable the segregated cycleway to be implemented. New trees and shrubs will be planted locally as part of the landscape mitigation proposal. Landscaping works will commence once the main works are completed.
Next Steps
Work is due to commence from 15 July 2024, and will last approximately 16 weeks. In the interest of safety, appropriate traffic management measures such as road closures and temporary traffic lights will be in place during the works. Whilst every effort will be undertaken to minimise disruption, it is inevitable that the works will cause some disruption in the local area.
If you would like to contact us about this project, please email Transport.Projects@birmingham.gov.uk
Page last updated: 8 July 2024
