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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A new consultation has launched on the Druids Heath Masterplan. Still insufficiently dense. A new local centre should face the Maypole shops supported by a new bus station providing interchange between the No.50 and buses towards Shirley and Bromsgrove www.druidsheathtogether.co.uk/vision

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Druids Heath Regeneration Vision – Masterplan, Design Code & Community Priorities

Explore the long‑term vision for Druids Heath’s regeneration, including the masterplan, Design Code, new homes, green spaces and community‑shaped priorities guiding the future of the estate.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Right wingers will claim that installing bollards to stop people being killed is a global WEF conspiracy to undermine your freedom but maintain that there is nothing nefarious about tax-avoiding billionaires gifting political parties more money than they’ll make in a lifetime.

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Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 06/08/2026

The Midlands Rail Hub is a long-touted project of vital importance to the future of rail travel in the city and wider region. 🧵

A render of how the rail viaduct between Moor Street and Bordesley will be widened to accommodate more tracks for more capacity, along with chords to allow trains to use the Camp Hill line or go to the North and Midlands.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

More affordable buses means more people using them means fewer people driving means idiots who don’t understand second and third order consequences like Mark experience less congestion.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Consultation on Midlands Rail Hub: Key for me: - What happened to the vision for Moor Street? - how does this interchange with HS2? - how will it be coordinated with Adderley Street tram works? - the viaduct is visually prominent and the symbol of Digbeth, will the widening respect the existing?

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John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Interesting public consultation on safety principles for automated vehicles. (I suspect some people on here will have strong views on it) www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Automated vehicles: statement of safety principles consultation

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Went to pick up some stuff I had framed in Stirchley and walked through this. No trees, no sense of place, too much tarmac, *plastic* cladding. This should have been 5 storey courtyard blocks with terraces overlooking the park & 5 mins from the station. A wasted opportunity.

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Kevin Carmody @skinofstars.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Today I wrote to Birmingham's Cabinet Member for Transport as well as the WMCA urging them to use their new powers to take action on pavement parking. Groups like @livingstreets.bsky.social and @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org have been campaigning for this for years. The time to act is now.

Official letter to the Birmingham Council Cabinet Member for Transport, urging for action on tackling pavement parking

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Make Edgbaston Reservoir suitable for swimming. The Tower Ballroom redevelopment needs to provide not only commercial spaces for activation but also public toilets, changing rooms and safe access points for swimming that are open when the weather’s like this. I miss the sea.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/06/2026

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Some of the assessment scoring and weighting in the Longbridge Corridor Mass Rapid Transit study is crap. This routes needs a tram, not a bendy bus that experience tells us takes just as long, if not longer, to deliver anyway.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

What I like about Rotterdam is that there is the talent, civic confidence and political will to take buildings that are typical of the place but that many would consider ugly and reimagine them as places full of colour, fun, learning and culture. It feels authentic and unique.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

100,000 people in Delft. A 4 platform through station with local heritage design details, bus and tram interchange, several thousand space cycle parking garage with subtly integrated entrance/exit and car parking somewhere but I can’t find where. The UK is a third world country.

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Martin Price-Phillips @mpricephillips.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Presumably Rosewell will remember her current experience of divvying up our £2.4bn multi-year settlement and found out that you can buy just a micron more than piss all mass transit projects considering the other competing priorities.

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New mass transit taskforce to reshape the future of transport in towns and cities

The new taskforce will make recommendations to improve transit systems so they can be delivered more efficiently across the UK.

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Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 13/05/2026

With the price of fuel going up by the week, change lanes to avoid the impact. Bus tickets are capped at £20 a week. Walking and cycling short trips is free. Fewer short car trips also means less congestion, more reliable public transport, safer and better roads, cleaner air, and healthier people.

Title: Change lane to escape the global energy crisis.

Car - £108 per week and rising fast. (Source: Average weekly cost of car ownership (IPPR, 2025)).

Bus - £20 per week (Contactless card weekly cap for National Express West Midlands).

Walking and cycling - Free.

Fewer short car trips also leads to less congestion, more reliable public transport, quicker journey times for all.

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Martin Price-Phillips @mpricephillips.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Waterloo Street is a lovely demonstration that paint isn’t infrastructure. Blue badges and the rich now occupy this new (yes, despite the state of the tarmac it is new) contraflow cycle lane.

A contraflow cycle lane next to double yellow lines with two cars parked in it, straddling the painted cycle symbol on the ground.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Incredible swing to the Greens. I remain optimistic that a Coalition of Hope will come forward but I’m worried that bringing three parties together with a few independents will result in so many councillors wanting paid positions it risks collapse and we’ll get a worst of all worlds coalition.

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Kevin Carmody @skinofstars.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We have got to tackle Birmingham’s pavement parking problem

Child prevented from using pavement because a van is fully parked on it

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A coalition of hope can make this a reality

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

“Vote Reform to get Starmer out” is complete nonsense in a local election. But Reform have laid a trap that the egos in the Labour Party are falling into. Launching a leadership challenge straight after the local elections will make it look like Faridge has delivered.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Hardly any of Birmingham’s newly elected councillors are on twitter - are they here?

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The media’s determination to crown a mediocre former health secretary and twice failed leadership candidate who ran off to be a mayor and rode on the coattails of Richard Leese’s achievements is quite sickening.

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Martin Price-Phillips @mpricephillips.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I let @jordanbhx.bsky.social post this to the other place, so I’ll post them here! Here are some healthy streets transformations from Birmingham using Google Gemini.

An AI generated image of a high street. There are extended pavements, a contraflow cycle lane, more trees, a narrower carriageway, rain gardens and places to sit.

An AI generated render of a city centre street. There are cycle lanes in each directions, rain gardens with plants in, a water fountain, trees and a light surface for the road.

An AI generated image of a high street. There are cycle lanes in each direction, a raised crossing, more trees, low level planting and places to sit.

An AI generated render of a street, showing a cycle lane, wider pavements, crossing points, 20mph, places to sit and public toilets.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Some lovely installations for BrumPark(ing)Day showcasing how much more valuable parking spaces are when they’re places to meet and socialise. Imagine if we closed half of Caroline Street to traffic and spread the greenery and the public space along its whole length

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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

At the Sustainable Mobility Conference in Barcelona, I spoke about a critical modern challenge: urban obesity. Cities stretched by sprawl, scattered functions, and decades of car-centric design. Mobility must now serve a different ideal — proximity, equity, and human connection.

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Shivaji Shiva @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

“You have to get out of bed in the morning and sometimes for that you need delusion.” #RadicalOptimism?

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This & the rape last week in Oldbury should be national news but will be ignored by newspapers too excited at the thought they might get to play at being court press for fascists

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Another attempt by Lidl to turn Northfield into an American strip mall. Unsustainable, single storey, congestion causing ugliness. It conflicts with plans for an A38 cycle route and I’ll let you decide how convincing this ‘local distinctiveness’ claim is. Objections encouraged. 2025/04646/PA

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The automated people mover between HS2’s interchange station and Bham Airport/Station is a waste of time. Given the timescales involved development and funding could have been directed to expediting the East Bham tram and extending it all the way to the interchange station.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Looking forward to this, although given how many architecture practices have offices in the JQ it’s disappointing that more of them aren’t taking part. Road space reallocation for more green space is essential to ensure the JQ grows and thrives. Get involved.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

A scheme that makes streets safer is only ‘divisive’ to people who are intent on making streets more dangerous.

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Peter Wells @pete-wells.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

A city the size of Brum should have had a tram network like GM’s Metrolink AND an underground/metro like T&W decades ago…

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This photo shows 58 cyclists and just two cars. MPs looking out of their window today will see a steady flow of people cycling, some for the first time in a while, given confidence to do so with quality infrastructure. Just over 10 years ago there wasn’t even a cycle lane here.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

If you want to know why Italy’s economy has overtaken the UK’s. When it opens in 2026, Bologna will have built a tram system bigger than the WM’s network in just 7 years. Sprint, touted as easier and faster to deliver than trams, was announced in 2014. The vehicles still haven’t been ordered.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

At this point not a single person will vote for Labour because they’ve frozen fuel duty. Labour won’t lose any votes if they unfreeze it either, but many more people would vote for Labour if the billions of £s made available from unfreezing it was spent on public services.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Anything attached to lampposts has to be removed so they can be upgraded. This transparently cynical politicking is tantamount to them opposing upgrades to street lighting to make streets safer, particularly for women, at night.

Bham Tories whinging about flags being removed to perform essential street lighting upgrades.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Birmingham City Council have now launched their parking charges consultations for a number of parks in the city. Please support them. It’s about time we ended the scandal of using taxpayer money to subside drivers at the expense of everyone else. You should pay to store your car on our parks.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

One of the most unheralded parts of making streets safer for children is the amount of time it frees up for parents.

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Bill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

It’s been 356 days since a road safety emergency was declared. The cabinet member has made no progress on any recommended action. The healthy streets audit hasn’t been released. The Cllr who established this at scrutiny has been deselected. The injunction does nothing.

A screenshot of a tweet in which the leader of BCC suggests that court injunctions are an effective means of tackling street cruising on roads that are designed for speed rather than safety.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Rail passenger numbers have been released for 2023-2024 and as predicted by literally everyone who knows anything about transport, they have already surpassed pre-Covid figures. Birmingham’s passenger growth second only to London.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Wolverhampton are very quietly and without much fuss delivering superb public realm improvements that are now starting to break through their ring road to create green, liveable and loveable streets. Support the proposals here 👇 www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/news/have-yo...

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Have your say on early designs for key city centre gateway | City Of Wolverhampton Council

Wolverhampton Council is asking for your views on early design options for a key city centre gateway.

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Jordan @jordanbhx.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I left the Labour Party today. We had a leader imposed on us. Now those with vision & ability are being purged for loyal incompetents & idea-free careerists. They would rather hand the city to extremists & fascists than councillors they can’t control. insidebirmingham.substack.com/p/massive-la...

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Massive Labour shakeup in Birmingham as party pushes out veteran councillors

Birmingham's Labour Group found out today if they have been selected today to stand in 2026 with some shocks

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Izzy Knowles 🔶 @izzyknowles.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I went to see the premier of @sarahchaundler.bsky.social excellent & hard hitting film ‘City of Cars’ at the Mockingbird Cinema tonight. Followed by a discussion facilitated by @janerockhouse.bsky.social We all want safe roads, this film makes it clear why it is so important.

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