Moor Street Queensway Bus Gate Traffic Regulation Order

Closed 17 Aug 2020

Opened 27 Jul 2020

Contact

0121 303 7301

transport.projects@birmingham.gov.uk

Overview

The Eastside area of Birmingham city centre, including Moor Street Queensway and Digbeth High Street, will be transformed over the coming years. Major transport investment through Metro extension, new Sprint routes and the arrival of HS2 will see significant improvements to public transport and enhanced public realm, while new developments such as Smithfield will change how this area is used. This will all contribute to the vision for a sustainable, green, inclusive, go-anywhere network set out in the draft Birmingham Transport Plan.

As part of this transformation, we are proposing to introduce a Bus Gate on a section of Moor Street Queensway between Moor Street Station and the junction with Carrs Lane. This will restrict northbound and southbound access for private vehicles except for buses, cyclists and hackney carriages. At the same time, there will be some changes to loading bays and taxi ranks.

About this consultation

Following informal consultation in February 2020, we are now consulting on the legal orders to make these changes.

During this consultation, you can make comments on the proposals or submit a formal objection (which must include the grounds for the objection). You can either make your response via this webpage (please provide your contact details as part of your response) or can post a written objection to Assistant Director - Transport & Connectivity, Inclusive Growth Directorate, 1 Lancaster Circus Queensway, PO Box 14439, Birmingham B2 2JE.

All responses must be received by 17 August 2020.

If you have chosen to object to the proposed orders, you may be contacted by a project officer to further discuss your objection.

If you have any questions about this consultation or need help understanding the plans, please contact transport.projects@birmingham.gov.uk or call 0121 303 7301

What is included in this consultation?

A Traffic Regulation Order, or TRO is the legal documentation required to make changes to the status of the highway (road).

A TRO is accompanied by a plan (map) showing the proposed measures visually.

This TRO includes four types of change: parking (Controlled Parking Zone), pedestrian areas, bus lanes and taxi ranks.

Overview plan

Parking TRO

As part of this scheme, we are making changes to parking in two places:

  • The existing taxi rank outside Moor Street Station will become permanent.
  • The loading and drop off bays on Moor Street, alongside the station will be increased in size and the waiting time changed to a maximum of 20 minutes.

These changes mean a change to the existing Controlled Parking Zone (Inner Zone Birmingham) TRO. For this existing TRO, we have a set of plans showing all the parking restrictions in the area; when making a change the revised plans must always be at the same map scale and show the same area as in the original TRO. Therefore the maps won’t always look ‘nicely’ framed, changes could be right on the edge.

On the plans, all the existing restrictions which will not change are shown in black and white, the changes are highlighted in blue.

Parking TRO variation (proposed)
Parking TRO (existing, to be varied)
Parking TRO plan 1 of 2
Parking TRO plan 2 of 2

Pedestrian TRO

Around the bus lanes and bus gate, this scheme creates areas of road which are only accessible by certain vehicles, e.g. buses, taxis and cycles.

It seems strange to call these pedestrian areas, but this is because the TRO is created by permitting those particular vehicles into what is, in legal terms, a pedestrian area. In practice, the road layout will be not change here, but signs will show that no vehicles are permitted except those named exceptions.

These changes mean a change to the existing Pedestrianised Streets (Birmingham City Centre) TRO. For this existing TRO, we have a set of plans showing all the pedestrian areas in the city centre; when making a change the revised plans must always be at the same map scale and show the same area as in the original TRO. Therefore the maps won’t always look ‘nicely’ framed, changes can be awkwardly split across pages.

Legally, the TRO covers all the highway, including the footway (pavement), so the areas displayed on the plans are larger than just the carriageway (where vehicles go). However, this does not mean that the excepted vehicles are allowed to be on the footway; it is an offence to drive on the footway.

On the plans, all the existing restrictions which will not change are shown in black and white, the changes are highlighted in blue.

Pedestrian TRO variation (proposed)
Pedestrian TRO (existing, to be varied)
Pedestrian TRO plan 1 of 3
Pedestrian TRO plan 2 of 3
Pedestrian TRO plan 3 of 3

Bus lane TRO

This scheme makes three changes to bus lanes/gates:

  • A new bus lane is created on the southbound side of Moor Street Queensway.
  • A new bus gate is created near the entrance to Moor Street Station.
  • The existing northbound bus lane on Moor Street changes so that it can no longer be used by motorcyclists.

Both bus lanes and the bus gate can be used by buses, taxis and cyclists only and will be in operation 24 hours a day.

Other information about nearby bus lanes does not need to appear on this plan.

Bus lane TRO variation (proposed)
Bus lane TRO (existing, to be varied)
Bus lane TRO plan

Taxi rank TRO

As part of this scheme, the existing taxi rank outside Moor Street Station will become permanent.

Taxi rank TRO variation (proposed)
Taxi rank TRO (existing, to be varied)
Taxi rank TRO plan

Areas

  • CITY CENTRE
  • LADYWOOD

Audiences

  • All residents
  • Visitors/tourists
  • Cyclists
  • Pedestrians
  • Local Residents
  • Public Sector Bodies
  • Businesses
  • Faith groups
  • Community groups
  • Voluntary Organisations
  • Staff
  • Service user groups

Interests

  • Transport (Including Walking)
  • Travel