Investing \u00a32.5m to deliver any recommended targeted infrastructure interventions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHe said the council was also working with West Midlands Fire Service to invest \u00a3500,000 to deliver speed indication devices which provides vital intel to target enforcement activity.<\/p>\n
A total of \u00a32.7m worth of funding has also been distributed for 54 local schemes around the city, championed by ward councillors, he said.<\/p>\n
He also highlighted that since the emergency was declared, a total of 66 operations had taken place, and 741 PCNs (penalty notices) had been issued.<\/p>\n
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Better Streets for Birmingham protesters hold signs as they stand in road during a protest event, 2024<\/p>\n
“We have also increased civil enforcement officer patrols in key hotspots, and between 1st July 2024 to 30th June 2025, we have issued 228,235 parking PCNs \u2013 an all-time high.”<\/p>\n
He said that all 40mph roads in and round the city centre would be removed by the autumn as part of a speed limit standardisation programme, with more 20mph limits and parking controls on the way.<\/p>\n
More interventions such as dropped crossings, and bollards to protect against pavement parking, were also being funded through the council’s Vision Zero Capacity Fund.<\/p>\n
At the scrutiny meeting, held last month, councillors expressed frustration that some of recommendations made that had been ‘carefully and thoughtfully created’ appeared to have been ignored.<\/p>\n
These included a failure to support a joint plan with police to crack down on uninsured drivers, failing to lobby the Government for speeding and other fines to be ringfenced for local spending, and failing to write, with partners, to lobby for more resources to create a London style public transport network in Birmingham.<\/p>\n
“Every action should have been achieved by now,” said Coun Waseem Zaffar, Lab, Lozells.<\/p>\n
Coun Richard Parkin, Cons, Sutton Reddicap, said of the update on progress towards meeting the recommendations: “This (response) is completely underwhelming. There is nothing here that says the council is treating this like an emergency.<\/p>\n
“Having accepted (the recommendations), there is nothing in this half soaked response to show it. I am incredibly disappointed.”<\/p>\n
Among the recommendations were calls for the council to link up with other partners including the police and mayor to press for funding, ramp up enforcement efforts and complete promised improvements to roads and crossings.<\/p>\n
Coun Mahmood, whose portfolio also includes the waste and parks services, had told the committee that work was under way to make progress on speed enforcement and pavement parking concerns. But he added: “Officers have been working really hard and we all take this very seriously – we know this directly affects people’s lives.”<\/p>\n
Coun Barker said many people, including bereaved families, had put a lot of time and effort into helping the council create the recommendations so it was frustrating that they had not appeared to have been heeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council’s transport chief has defended record on road safety measures 15:58, 08 Jul 2025Updated 16:00, 08 Jul 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,984,748,393,4884,8955,1263,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-248323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-midlands-traffic-and-travel","14":"tag-transport","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114818341100444143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Road safety campaigners in Harborne<\/p>\n