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Express & Star 21 Feb 11
Furious football fans today spoke of their terror as chaos broke out on two overcrowded trams that broke down on the way to the Black Country derby.
Up to 400 supporters who had crammed onto the trams heading to The Hawthorns were left stranded after damage to doors left the first unable to move off from Black Lake station in West Bromwich…
Business
Express & Star 7 Nov 10
An extension of the Midland Metro through the Black Country using former freight lines is “unrealistic” and may not be delivered by 2026, a damning report has said.
Inspectors who approved the Black Country Joint Core Strategy — a multimillion pound plan to provide 60,000 new homes and 300,000 square yards of retail space — said it was “not practical” to extend the Midland Metro service from Wednesbury to Stourbridge, which would link the network to the Merry Hill Shopping Centre…
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Express & Star 16 Oct 10
Thieves are lying in wait at Midland Metro tram stops in the Black Country to steal sat navs and other valuables from cars left by commuters, police said today.
The criminals have struck nine times in the last month, with eight thefts at Wednesbury Parkway and one at Black Lake tram stop in West Bromwich…
News
Edward Chadwick B'ham Mail 24 Aug 10
An anonymous hotline which has slashed crime on Birmingham bus routes has been unveiled as the latest weapon to tackle louts who make life a misery on the Midland Metro.
The See Something, Say Something campaign has been extended to the tramway after helping to cut offences by half in three years…
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Edward Chadwick B'ham Mail 13 Jul 10
Thousands of passengers will be forced off the Midland Metro and on to buses when the line closes for £1 million-worth of improvements.
Commuters and shoppers travelling between Birmingham Snow Hill and Wolverhampton face disruption for a week this autumn and another week next spring…
Business
Paul Suart B'ham Mail 1 Jul 10
Public transport body Centro has vowed to continue to fight for a major extension of the Midland Metro line in Birmingham.
The project, which Midland public transport co-ordinator Centro would create 1,300 new jobs and boost the region’s economy by £50 million a year…
News
Express & Star 11 Jun 10
A £127 million extension of the Midland Metro from its Birmingham Snow Hill terminus to New Street Station was in jeopardy today. Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said a decision to confirm the funding for the new line, including a new 19-strong fleet of trams, would not be made until after the Government-wide spending review in the autumn.
He has suspended all local transport schemes which were approved under the Labour government, but not yet contracted. This also includes the new road planned to link Walsall and Darlaston…
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Express & Star 10 Jun 10
More than £624 million worth of transport projects in the West Midlands, including the extension of the Midland Metro and the creation of red routes, are under threat from government spending reviews, it was claimed today…
Comment
Lee Jordan's weblog 25 May 10
The year is 2010, it’s the future, we are my friends, just 5 years away from flying cars and hoverboards, yet it still takes longer to get around the Midlands than it does to get from here to London. The future is just one let down after another!
Forget wizzing around in tubes like in Futurama, or having your own bubble car as seen in the highly optimistic era that produced the Jetsons, we are facing an under reported challenge to carry on moving in the face of oil depletion. You see if you look back just 70 years, we started building our local transport networks around electricity. We had trams and we lived so local that one would not even need a car to get to the shops, lest need a bus pass to get to work or school (people could and did have lunch at home), and oh the bus ran on electric too…
News
Express & Star 26 May 10
Plans to spend more than £30 million to extend the Midland Metro into Wolverhampton city centre are going back to the drawing board. The Department for Transport faces £683m in cuts.
The move is due under the coalition government, and city regeneration chiefs said they had to put the plan “on the back burner”.