Work is set to begin on a long-awaited metro scheme in the heart of Birmingham city centre after the Government gave the project the final green light.Read
The complexities of building the Midland Metro extension through Birmingham’s central shopping area make it unlikely that trams will be running along city centre streets until early 2015, it has been confirmed.Read
The family of a Black Country woman who died after being hit by a tram have spoken of their anger at British Transport Police and Midland Metro as an inquest delivered an open verdict over her death.Read
Business leaders in the West Midlands threw their weight behind the Chancellor’s focus on cuts rather than taxes but admitted that the devil remained in the detail about the consequences of the spending squeeze.Read
Chancellor George Osborne’s surprise backing for Birmingham’s city centre Midland Metro tram extension from Snow Hill to New Street Station will come as welcome relief to local transport bosses who feared that the £130 million project was doomed.Read
More than £500 million could be raised to pay for a series of ambitious transport schemes in the West Midlands after Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced radical reforms to rules on council borrowing.Read
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