{"id":322683,"date":"2025-08-06T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322683\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:14:12","slug":"successful-overnight-test-of-birmingham-tram-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322683\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Successful&#8217; overnight test of Birmingham tram extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also offers a direct tram link for the almost 400,000 bus passengers a week who use services at the Moor Street bus interchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mayor Richard Parker has earmarked \u00a3400m to build the tram extension to the new stadium and surrounding Sports Quarter regeneration scheme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The money is also being used to plan and design the full East Birmingham and Solihull extension out to Birmingham Airport and HS2 Interchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Late night tram runs will continue over the next few weeks as Midland Metro Alliance engineers fully test the line and fine tune the track ready for the route to be handed over to West Midlands Metro for driver training and timetable testing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Passenger services will start in the autumn following the completion of the testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tests are the first time trams have run down Lower Bull Street, Albert Street and across Moor Street Queensway, before stopping at a temporary terminus next to the Eastside City Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It also offers a direct tram link for the almost 400,000 bus passengers a week who use services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114982241111196588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322683","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=322683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}