Warning Voi e-scooter users flouting rules in Birmingham city centre will be fined
The Swedish company behind the city s green transport revolution on two-wheeled Voi e-scooters is determined to root out those who don t ride by the rules
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E-scooter riders who don t ride by the rules in Birmingham could be hit with fines and bans.
It s eight months since Swedish company Voi was given a year-long trial to see if the green transport revolution being pioneered by the West Midlands Metro tram network could be complemented by individuals hopping on and off two-wheel scooters.
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Dumped Voi e-scooters littering the city s streets
A leading blind federation campaigner is using street videos to call for the Voi e-scooter experiment to be axed in Birmingham
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Voi e-scooters are being dumped on city streets and are a dangerous trip hazard, a leading safety campaigner has warned.
Sarah Gayton is using danger videos posted on Twitter to highlight the pavement-littering phenomenon and to call for the Voi e-scooter revolution to be axed.
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The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has awarded the contract to develop its Transforming Real Time Information (T-RTI) system for bus services to Ito World.
The system – comprising a data hub, prediction engine and analysis tool – will be used by WMCA’s Regional Transport Control Centre and take in data from 30 bus operators in the region, accounting for around 259 million bus journeys each year.
It will contribute to objectives including helping travellers to make optimal choices in their bus journeys, improving the quality of timetables, journey matching and bus time predictions, and making it possible to run analyses of real time and historic data.
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) is looking for a design and build contractor to deliver the £24M Dudley Interchange for buses and trams.
The project’s full business case has been given approval by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), and tendering can now begin.
Work is expected start on site next February 2022 and be completed in 2023.
The closing date for bids is 4 June.
The Metro extension will join Dudley to the new High Speed 2 hub at Curzon Street in Birmingham. The full extension to the West Midlands Metro network is set to cost £1.5bn in total, and is set to open in 2023.