07 March 2008

Streetscene: Birmingham announces £11bn ‘vision for the future’

Birmingham City Council has announced a £11BN-plus, 20-year ‘vision for the future’, including plans to improve transport and create more green space. Launched this week, the Big City Plan outlines 20 key issues and areas the city needs to address to achieve its hoped-for levels of development. Birmingham plans to improve public transport and free-up more space for on-street public transport facilities in the city centre. A spokesman said: ‘We have an easily walkable city core and the challenge may be to bring buses to the edge of the core and not through it, freeing up more space for pedestrians. ‘In doing so we need to radically improve passengers waiting experience by making great interchanges between walking, cycling, getting out of a taxi and onto a train or bus.
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