Better Streets for Birmingham
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
We want streets where everyone gets home safely and where there are genuine alternatives to driving.
Account semi-monitored by volunteers trying to cover all bases!
📍 Birmingham, UK
🔗 betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
Account semi-monitored by volunteers trying to cover all bases!
📍 Birmingham, UK
🔗 betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
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Come and listen to residents, activists and experts who are experiencing Britain's motor city outside a car. Three episodes out now: 1️⃣ Pavement parking, 2️⃣ How the past shapes the future, and 3️⃣ Vision Zero. New episodes fortnightly. Listen here: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Bus lane fines are easy to avoid and are reinvested back into transport. It's currently paying towards recent Iron Lane junction improvements, decluttering of Broad Street, Dudley Road improvements, further bus lane enforcement cameras and the upcoming A38 cycleway extension.
Birmingham's top bus lanes where drivers were fined this year
City centre bus lanes continue to catch out drivers in huge numbers
www.birminghammail.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Bus lane fines are easy to avoid and are reinvested back into transport. It's currently paying towards recent Iron Lane junction improvements, decluttering of Broad Street, Dudley Road improvements, further bus lane enforcement cameras and the upcoming A38 cycleway extension.
We've joined with 15 local and national organisations, setting out 10 practical steps to address the city's road safety emergency and prevent needless deaths on our city's roads.
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
January 17, 2026 at 8:15 AM
We've joined with 15 local and national organisations, setting out 10 practical steps to address the city's road safety emergency and prevent needless deaths on our city's roads.
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Will you join us by co-signing the asks in 2 minutes?: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
What was delivered in 2025 and what's in store for 2026? Our Chair, @mrmjprice.bsky.social, takes a moment to summarise what's going on with Birmingham's transport plans.
#Birmingham #Transport #Bus #Train #Tram #Cycling #Walking #ActiveTravel #BirminghamCityCouncil #WMCA #TfWM #WestMidlands
#Birmingham #Transport #Bus #Train #Tram #Cycling #Walking #ActiveTravel #BirminghamCityCouncil #WMCA #TfWM #WestMidlands
Transport in Birmingham: What's going on in 2026?
Better Streets for Birmingham's Chair, Martin Price, reflects on transport achievements in 2025 and looks forward to projects being delivered in 2026.
betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM
What was delivered in 2025 and what's in store for 2026? Our Chair, @mrmjprice.bsky.social, takes a moment to summarise what's going on with Birmingham's transport plans.
#Birmingham #Transport #Bus #Train #Tram #Cycling #Walking #ActiveTravel #BirminghamCityCouncil #WMCA #TfWM #WestMidlands
#Birmingham #Transport #Bus #Train #Tram #Cycling #Walking #ActiveTravel #BirminghamCityCouncil #WMCA #TfWM #WestMidlands
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Drivers do not associate their vehicles and trips with wearing down the road surface faster and leaving the Council to catch up. So I’ve connected the dots at the end of the article. (Headline not my quote!)
Birmingham route branded 'a journey to hell' over 'lethal' potholes
Birmingham City Council was recently rated by the government on how well it fixes potholes
www.birminghammail.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Drivers do not associate their vehicles and trips with wearing down the road surface faster and leaving the Council to catch up. So I’ve connected the dots at the end of the article. (Headline not my quote!)
Did you know that Better Streets for Birmingham CIC is grassroots funded and run by volunteers?
Help to cover our organisation's costs by donating today: actionnetwork.org/fundraisi...
Help to cover our organisation's costs by donating today: actionnetwork.org/fundraisi...
Donate to Better Streets for Birmingham
Help us to cover our group's operating costs like membership management, insurance, printing and event materials.d
actionnetwork.org
January 14, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Did you know that Better Streets for Birmingham CIC is grassroots funded and run by volunteers?
Help to cover our organisation's costs by donating today: actionnetwork.org/fundraisi...
Help to cover our organisation's costs by donating today: actionnetwork.org/fundraisi...
106 people will be killed on Birmingham's roads next council term.
Along with 15 organisations, we're calling for Birmingham's future leaders to adopt 10 practical steps to prevent these deaths and many more serious injuries.
Who will make Birmingham's roads safer?
Along with 15 organisations, we're calling for Birmingham's future leaders to adopt 10 practical steps to prevent these deaths and many more serious injuries.
Who will make Birmingham's roads safer?
Will you make Birmingham's roads safer?
Better Streets joins with 15 organisations to make ten asks of tomorrow's politicians to address road safety.
betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM
106 people will be killed on Birmingham's roads next council term.
Along with 15 organisations, we're calling for Birmingham's future leaders to adopt 10 practical steps to prevent these deaths and many more serious injuries.
Who will make Birmingham's roads safer?
Along with 15 organisations, we're calling for Birmingham's future leaders to adopt 10 practical steps to prevent these deaths and many more serious injuries.
Who will make Birmingham's roads safer?
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Great to be able to be part of this series of podcasts. Thanks so much for organising and all the best for reducing road danger and making Birmingham a better place for walking, wheeling and cycling.
Come and listen to residents, activists and experts who are experiencing Britain's motor city outside a car. Three episodes out now: 1️⃣ Pavement parking, 2️⃣ How the past shapes the future, and 3️⃣ Vision Zero. New episodes fortnightly. Listen here: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
January 13, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Great to be able to be part of this series of podcasts. Thanks so much for organising and all the best for reducing road danger and making Birmingham a better place for walking, wheeling and cycling.
RoadPeace has provided incredibly important support and advocacy for road crash victims. Our thoughts go out to the excellent staff and volunteers, as well as victims and families who will be impacted by this announcement. We are absolutely devastated. 💜
January 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
RoadPeace has provided incredibly important support and advocacy for road crash victims. Our thoughts go out to the excellent staff and volunteers, as well as victims and families who will be impacted by this announcement. We are absolutely devastated. 💜
Come and listen to residents, activists and experts who are experiencing Britain's motor city outside a car. Three episodes out now: 1️⃣ Pavement parking, 2️⃣ How the past shapes the future, and 3️⃣ Vision Zero. New episodes fortnightly. Listen here: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
January 12, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Come and listen to residents, activists and experts who are experiencing Britain's motor city outside a car. Three episodes out now: 1️⃣ Pavement parking, 2️⃣ How the past shapes the future, and 3️⃣ Vision Zero. New episodes fortnightly. Listen here: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
🚸 We are calling on all those preparing to stand for election in Birmingham next year to back practical steps for safer streets.
Ask 9: Working with Transport for West Midlands to upgrade bus lanes, railway stations and new tramways.
👉Read the ten asks and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Ask 9: Working with Transport for West Midlands to upgrade bus lanes, railway stations and new tramways.
👉Read the ten asks and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
January 12, 2026 at 7:15 AM
🚸 We are calling on all those preparing to stand for election in Birmingham next year to back practical steps for safer streets.
Ask 9: Working with Transport for West Midlands to upgrade bus lanes, railway stations and new tramways.
👉Read the ten asks and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Ask 9: Working with Transport for West Midlands to upgrade bus lanes, railway stations and new tramways.
👉Read the ten asks and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
🚲 Come join our monthly cycle around Birmingham City Centre. Open to all ages and abilities. Every first Friday of the month, 6pm start from (currently) Hippodrome Square on Hurst Street. We look forward to welcoming you! 🙂
January 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
🚲 Come join our monthly cycle around Birmingham City Centre. Open to all ages and abilities. Every first Friday of the month, 6pm start from (currently) Hippodrome Square on Hurst Street. We look forward to welcoming you! 🙂
Today's 'amber' rating for highway maintenance is unsurprising. However the documents reveal that Birmingham City Council is spending £139 million on maintaining roads this year. Remember that figure when soemone criticises the cost of a transport project!
Read more: www.gov.uk/government/publi...
Read more: www.gov.uk/government/publi...
January 11, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Today's 'amber' rating for highway maintenance is unsurprising. However the documents reveal that Birmingham City Council is spending £139 million on maintaining roads this year. Remember that figure when soemone criticises the cost of a transport project!
Read more: www.gov.uk/government/publi...
Read more: www.gov.uk/government/publi...
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Pedestrians have indeed lost a lot to #UKCarCulture in Birmingham. But there is something we can do about it!
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org meets on the first Monday of every month, 6 PM, @birminghamfoe.bsky.social.
All welcome to join us to reclaim the public space of our streets!
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org meets on the first Monday of every month, 6 PM, @birminghamfoe.bsky.social.
All welcome to join us to reclaim the public space of our streets!
Birmingham appears to have abandoned most implementation of road traffic and environmental regulations. Private vehicles commonly driven at excessive speeds, clog bus lanes, routinely parked at bus stops, on corners, on lawns, on pavements, blocking pedestrians. Pedestrians have lost all to vehicles
January 11, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Pedestrians have indeed lost a lot to #UKCarCulture in Birmingham. But there is something we can do about it!
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org meets on the first Monday of every month, 6 PM, @birminghamfoe.bsky.social.
All welcome to join us to reclaim the public space of our streets!
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org meets on the first Monday of every month, 6 PM, @birminghamfoe.bsky.social.
All welcome to join us to reclaim the public space of our streets!
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None of these vehicles fit inside on street parking spaces and consequently they should not be being issued with residents’ parking permits. This seems very obvious to me.
January 11, 2026 at 5:28 PM
🚸 We are calling on all those preparing to stand for election in Birmingham next year to back practical steps for safer streets.
Ask 8: Make residential streets greener and calmer.
👉Read the ten asks and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Ask 8: Make residential streets greener and calmer.
👉Read the ten asks and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Will you make Birmingham's roads safer?
Better Streets joins with 15 organisations to make ten asks of tomorrow's politicians to address road safety.
betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
January 10, 2026 at 8:15 AM
🚸 We are calling on all those preparing to stand for election in Birmingham next year to back practical steps for safer streets.
Ask 8: Make residential streets greener and calmer.
👉Read the ten asks and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Ask 8: Make residential streets greener and calmer.
👉Read the ten asks and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Do you find that getting around your patch of Brum is too difficult and unsafe? We want a Birmingham where walking, cycling, wheeling and public transport are the first choices for getting around. Get behind the movement for better streets today.
Support us – Better Streets for Birmingham
Our mission Better Streets for Birmingham wants safer streets and more transport choice for everyday trips. To do this, we need to make changes to our streets, improve enforcement, and reconsider how we move around Birmingham. We help residents to unde...
betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Do you find that getting around your patch of Brum is too difficult and unsafe? We want a Birmingham where walking, cycling, wheeling and public transport are the first choices for getting around. Get behind the movement for better streets today.
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And we need to be doing this everywhere, which is why I am so pleased she's written this report - it's a demonstration of how much can be achieved with relatively limited resources. So take a look, and then why not show it to your local council?
letsmakespace.org/make-space-y...
letsmakespace.org/make-space-y...
Make Space York - Make Space
Creating welcoming parks for teenage girls Make Space York is a community-led project reimagining public spaces so that teenage girls feel they belong. Since 2021, we’ve worked with over 350 girls acr...
letsmakespace.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:52 AM
And we need to be doing this everywhere, which is why I am so pleased she's written this report - it's a demonstration of how much can be achieved with relatively limited resources. So take a look, and then why not show it to your local council?
letsmakespace.org/make-space-y...
letsmakespace.org/make-space-y...
🚸 We are calling on all those preparing to stand for election in Birmingham next year to back practical steps for safer streets.
Ask #7: Install residential cycle hangars using clean air zone money, targeting areas with terraced housing.
👉Read the ten asks & co-sign betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Ask #7: Install residential cycle hangars using clean air zone money, targeting areas with terraced housing.
👉Read the ten asks & co-sign betterstreetsforbirmingham....
January 9, 2026 at 9:10 AM
🚸 We are calling on all those preparing to stand for election in Birmingham next year to back practical steps for safer streets.
Ask #7: Install residential cycle hangars using clean air zone money, targeting areas with terraced housing.
👉Read the ten asks & co-sign betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Ask #7: Install residential cycle hangars using clean air zone money, targeting areas with terraced housing.
👉Read the ten asks & co-sign betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Pavement parking is completely out of control in Birmingham. It is an everyday experience to navigate around parked cars and other vehicles obstructing the pavement, forcing children, parents with prams, the elderly, blind people and those in wheelchairs into the road.
New local powers to keep pavements clear for those who rely on them most
Local councils will be given the power to crack down on problem pavement parking.
www.gov.uk
January 8, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Pavement parking is completely out of control in Birmingham. It is an everyday experience to navigate around parked cars and other vehicles obstructing the pavement, forcing children, parents with prams, the elderly, blind people and those in wheelchairs into the road.
Birmingham continues to be in a road safety emergency with someone killed on the city’s roads every fortnight and several people seriously injured every day.
Thousands of lives to be saved under bold new Road Safety Strategy
New road safety strategy shows that the government is listening and leading: together, we can build a safer future for all UK road users.
www.gov.uk
January 8, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Birmingham continues to be in a road safety emergency with someone killed on the city’s roads every fortnight and several people seriously injured every day.
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Took these whilst out litter picking earlier. It was only when I was home I thought, how on earth do you get out the house safely if you have a wheelchair, pushchair or mobility issues? Pavements are completely blocked by parked cars.
January 5, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Took these whilst out litter picking earlier. It was only when I was home I thought, how on earth do you get out the house safely if you have a wheelchair, pushchair or mobility issues? Pavements are completely blocked by parked cars.
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Over 1,000 nitrous oxide canisters collected in Moseley, Brum - despite being banned. A public health, environmental & road safety issue, as the city faces a road safety emergency and the UK launches a new strategy today. Our streets shouldn’t look like this
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
Volunteers collect over 1,000 laughing gas cannisters in Birmingham suburb
Litter pickers in Moseley collected more than double the amount of nitrous oxide cannisters off streets in 2025
www.birminghammail.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Over 1,000 nitrous oxide canisters collected in Moseley, Brum - despite being banned. A public health, environmental & road safety issue, as the city faces a road safety emergency and the UK launches a new strategy today. Our streets shouldn’t look like this
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
🚸 We are calling on all those preparing to stand for election in Birmingham next year to back practical steps for safer streets.
Ask #6: Build a network of cycle lanes and cycle-friendly streets using devolved funding.
👉Read the ten asks in full and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Ask #6: Build a network of cycle lanes and cycle-friendly streets using devolved funding.
👉Read the ten asks in full and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
January 7, 2026 at 2:30 PM
🚸 We are calling on all those preparing to stand for election in Birmingham next year to back practical steps for safer streets.
Ask #6: Build a network of cycle lanes and cycle-friendly streets using devolved funding.
👉Read the ten asks in full and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
Ask #6: Build a network of cycle lanes and cycle-friendly streets using devolved funding.
👉Read the ten asks in full and co-sign: betterstreetsforbirmingham....
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We see the same with footways and cycleways outside fast food shops and car repair outlets across Birmingham (England).
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
If you want to open a small parklet in front of your coffee shop in Oakland it’s about $17000 your first year and $1800 in fees every year afterward.
If you want to use a whole bike lane to illegally park cars waiting for service it is apparently $0 and 0 cents because this is happening all over.
If you want to use a whole bike lane to illegally park cars waiting for service it is apparently $0 and 0 cents because this is happening all over.
January 4, 2026 at 7:26 PM
We see the same with footways and cycleways outside fast food shops and car repair outlets across Birmingham (England).
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
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That's my sort of mayor ...
#SafeStreetsNow
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
@richardparkerwm.bsky.social
@safestreetsnow.bsky.social
#SafeStreetsNow
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
@richardparkerwm.bsky.social
@safestreetsnow.bsky.social
"I'm so sorry that we could not have done this earlier...to have saved the loved ones in your life. But I thank you fopr the work that you have done...to ensure that this pain not be felt by others who call this same city home." — Mayor Mamdani at McGuinness Blvd. presser youtube.com/shorts/uwAYI...
Mayor Mamdani commits to ending traffic violence across NYC on third day in office #safestreets
YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC
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January 4, 2026 at 7:53 PM
That's my sort of mayor ...
#SafeStreetsNow
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
@richardparkerwm.bsky.social
@safestreetsnow.bsky.social
#SafeStreetsNow
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
@richardparkerwm.bsky.social
@safestreetsnow.bsky.social