Dudley Road - Phase 2 Spring Hill - Traffic Regulation Order consultation
Overview
The A457 Dudley Road/Spring Hill forms part of Birmingham’s Strategic Highway Network and provides a key arterial route from the Black Country into central Birmingham. The road is heavily used by both local and through traffic and forms part of the emergency vehicle route to the M5 Motorway.
Delays as a result of congestion significantly add to business costs and discourage firms from investing and locating in this area, as well as adversely impacting on access to employment opportunities for local residents.
Walking, cycling and public transport are all vital tools in the difficult tasks of solving congestion, air quality and our climate crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has also changed people’s habits and further highlighted the importance of walking and cycling as safe and sustainable ways to travel.
We are therefore planning to improve the A457 Dudley Road/Spring Hill corridor to:
- upgrade facilities for pedestrians and cyclists,
- provide new bus lanes,
- reduce traffic congestion through junctions.
This consultation is about the Traffic Regulation Orders (the legal documents required to make changes to the status of the road) associated with phase 2 of the Dudley Road/Spring Hill corridor improvement scheme.
About this consultation
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), by email to transport.projects@birmingham.gov.uk or you can post a written objection to: Assistant Director - Transport & Connectivity, Place, Prosperity & Sustainability Directorate, 1 Lancaster Circus Queensway, PO Box 14439, Birmingham B2 2JE.
All responses must be received by 14 June 2022.
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
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). This consultation is to make residents and businesses aware of the proposals to introduce, amend and make permanent, TROs on the A457 Dudley Road/Spring Hill corridor and adjacent roads.
A TRO is accompanied by a plan (map) showing the proposed measures visually.
The TROs in this consultation include four types of change: traffic movements; parking restrictions; bus lanes and raised tables.
There is also information regarding the upgrading of existing pedestrian crossing facilities, the installation of parallel crossing points for pedestrians and cyclists, and the installation of segregated cycleway and non-segregated shared use footway/cycleway.
Traffic movements
To introduce a no right turn from Spring Hill into Ellen Street.
To introduce a no right turn from Ellen Street into Spring Hill
To introduce a ‘no U-turn’ on Spring Hill at its junction with Ellen Street (from the west bound carriageway into the east bound carriageway).
Parking
To vary/introduce waiting/loading restrictions as follows:
Spring Hill:
- Length of no waiting at any time, no loading/unloading at any time
- Lengths of no waiting at any time, no loading/unloading 7.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.
- Lengths of no waiting at any time, no loading/unloading 1.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
- Length of no waiting 7.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m., no loading/unloading 7.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m., limited waiting 1.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. max stay 1 hour, no return within 1 hour.
- Lengths of no waiting 1.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.., no loading/unloading 1.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m., limited waiting 7.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. max stay 1 hour, no return within 1 hour.
- Length of no waiting at any time.
Ellen Street:
- No waiting at any time, no loading/unloading at any time (junction with New Spring Street)
- Length of no waiting at any time, no loading/unloading at any time
- Length of no waiting at any time, no loading/unloading 7.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.
New Spring Street:
- No waiting at any time, no loading at any time (junction with Ellen Street)
College Street :
- Length of no waiting at any time, no loading/unloading 7.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.
George Street West:
- Length of no waiting at any time, no loading/unloading 7.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.
Spring Hill Passage:
- Length of no waiting at any time, no loading/unloading 1.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
Steward Street :
- Length of no waiting at any time, no loading/unloading 1.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
- No waiting at any time, no loading/unloading at any time (junction with Cope Street)
Eyre Street:
- Length of no waiting at any time, no loading/unloading 1.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
- No waiting at any time, no loading/unloading at any time (junction with Cope Street)
Cope Street:
- No waiting at any time, no loading/unloading at any time (junction with Eyre Street)
- No waiting at any time, no loading/unloading at any time (junction with Steward Street)
Bus lane
To introduce lengths of Bus Lane on Spring Hill eastbound (into city) from 7.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. every day and westbound (out of city) from 1.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. every day (including for black cab, pedal cycle and solo motor cycle).
Raised tables
Raised tables (a raised section of road with a ramp on each approach to slow vehicles down) will be installed on the following roads at their junctions with Spring Hill. Raised tables will be approximately 100 mm in height:
- College Street
- Steward Street
- George Street West
- Spring Hill Passage
- Ellen Street
Pedestrian & cycle crossing facilities
Pedestrian and cycle crossing facilities are also proposed as part of the scheme:
Upgrade the existing pedestrian crossings on Spring Hill from pelican crossing to toucan crossing:
- West of the junction with A4540 (Middle Ring Road)
- Between the junctions of Steward Street and George Street West
Install parallel crossings (where cyclists have crossing marked parallel to pedestrian crossing place) on:
- College Street
- George Street West
- Spring Hill Passage
- Ellen Street
(at their junctions with Spring Hill)
Segregated cycleway & non-segregated shared use footway/cycleway
Segregated cycleway and non-segregated shared use footway/cycleway are to be introduced on sections of:
- Spring Hill
- Ellen Street
- Area of footpath linking Ellen Street with Hingeston Street
Areas
- LADYWOOD
- North Edgbaston
- Soho & Jewellery Quarter
Audiences
- All residents
- Councillors/MPs/MEPs
- Cyclists
- Motor Vehicle Drivers
- Pedestrians
- Local Residents
- Businesses
Interests
- cycling
- Health & Wellbeing
- Environment
- Business
- Travel
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