Sprint A34 Walsall to Birmingham Traffic Regulation Orders
Overview
What is Sprint?
Sprint is a new bus-based transport system that will provide a reliable, cost-effective, and environmentally-friendly service for people travelling in the West Midlands.
Read more about Sprint
Transport for West Midlands and Birmingham City Council are working towards delivering a truly 21st Century transport method of choice, one specifically designed to meet anticipated uplift in demand from a continually growing population.
The uninterrupted 34km cross-city route from Walsall to Solihull is one of seven new Sprint routes planned for the West Midlands.
Sprint uses the existing A34 but there will be alterations to ensure the traffic flows as smoothly as possible. The changes include modifications to some of the verges, the central reservation and parking spaces, the vast majority of which will be retained under the revised plans for Sprint.
New and extended dedicated bus lanes will be created along some sections of the route to minimise congestion with Sprint benefiting from priority at traffic lights to ensure the quickest journeys possible.
The new, improved experience for passengers includes faster ticketing, on-board wifi and greatly improved new shelters. Low-level flooring makes Sprint more convenient for passengers with mobility issues, such as wheelchair users.
Full details of the proposed Sprint network can be found at www.tfwm.org.uk/sprint.
About this consultation
This consultation is the formal advertisement of the Traffic Regulation Orders.
A Traffic Regulation Order, or TRO, is the legal documentation required to make changes to the status of the highway (road).
We have already carried out informal consultation on the Sprint route, and the plans have changed as a result of your feedback. We now have to carry out this formal, legal process before the changes can introduced on the road itself.
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 20 July 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 about Sprint, please contact Transport for West Midlands’s Customer Services Team on 0345 303 6760 (option 2, followed by option 3) or email sprintenquiries@tfwm.org.uk, quoting reference number CRM 107556 in your correspondence.
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: red route, bus lane, movement (no right turn) and pedestrian crossing.
This consultation is about the TROs for Sprint which are within the Birmingham local authority boundary.
All the documents for this consultation can be downloaded at the bottom of this page, but to help make it easier to navigate and find the parts you are interested in, they are also set out in a list, a table of locations and a map.
List of TRO documents
- Scheme wide documents:
- Red route TRO documents:
- Bus lane TRO plans
- Movement TRO plans:
- Pedestrian crossing TRO plan:
Table of locations
More information about map
To use the map below, click on a coloured rectangle to open an overview pdf plan of the changes proposed in that area. You will also find links to the formal TRO maps which cover all or part of that area.
Also included in the map are layers for each of the TRO map types (red route, bus lane, movement and pedestrian crossings). To see available layers and turn layers on and off, click the icon in the top left of the map.
To view the map in full screen (in a new browser tab), click the icon in the top right of the map.
We have worked hard to put the list, table and map together and to make sure all the links point to the right plans, but if you find any errors, please send the details to connected@birmingham.gov.uk and we will fix them as soon as possible.
Your data
Your responses, including personal data are being collected by Birmingham City Council and will be shared with Transport for West Midlands, in accordance with General Data Protection Regulations (Regulation (EU) 2016/679).
Both organisations have privacy policies, detailed on our respective websites:
Areas
- ASTON
- Birchfield
- LADYWOOD
- Lozells
- NECHELLS
- Newtown
- PERRY BARR
Audiences
- Anyone from any background
Interests
- Transport (Including Walking)
- Travel
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