Making our streets safe outside of a car
Children, elderly, disabled, broke, or just wanting another way to move.
We believe everyone should be able to travel in safety and with clean air, however they choose.
Road safety
More than 400 people are killed or seriously injured on Birmingham roads each year. This is a choice. Our city designers prioritise car convenience over safety. We challenge that.
Clean air
Birmingham City Council states: “Birmingham currently has unsafe levels of nitrogen dioxide, and we know this has a detrimental effect on the health and life expectancy of our citizens” – Groups like ours work in tackling air pollution.
Ref: Key actions to improve air quality in Birmingham 7 April 2021
Building communities
When streets are reclaimed from motor traffic, residents feel safe to walk, cycle and play outside of their homes.
Safe streets build communities.
updates
Latest posts
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Proposals for safer Harborne streets
We’ve submitted three proposals to improve transport and accessibility in Harborne, and we wanted to share our thinking with the community.
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Is it already an LTN? A review of existing Harborne and Quinton areas
Many newer neighbourhoods are already LTNs by design, if not name. Here we review different areas of Harborne and Quinton for cut through traffic.
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Harborne East – Plan review – December 2024
Since sharing our suggested traffic management scheme with the community, councillors, city planners and other stakeholders, we have had an amazing amount of feedback. This is a review of our suggested plans based on that feedback.
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Growth, net zero, opportunity, women and girls’ safety, health – none of these can be realised without transport as a key enabler.”
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