Metro extension timescales.

[Tony]

Seems like someone else has found money to do the Dudley to Dudley Port bit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-31046970

[Stevo]

I wonder what a Very Light Rail link is? Parry People Movers as at Stourbridge? The trouble is the old station site is too remote from the town centre and it's a good uphill walk as well. Nobody's going to get on it there.

[D10]

I wonder what a Very Light Rail link is? Parry People Movers as at Stourbridge? The trouble is the old station site is too remote from the town centre and it's a good uphill walk as well. Nobody's going to get on it there.

Agree that Dudley Station is too remote. What with the town centre being so run down these days I can't see many people wanting to walk all the way up Castle Hill to the town.

Sounds like this is more a good way for Warwick University to test their ideas out on a decent length of track, I couldn't see them being able to build a track on their campus site in the Coventry green belt, so this former rail line in Dudley would be a fairly uncontroversial place to build something.

[Stu]

This is very interesting, however I do agree that it would be more useful if it could be built to go 'on-road' from the bottom of Castle Hill up to a more convenient interchange point at the bus station.

[mikestone]

The LEP web site
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http://www.blackcountrylep.co.uk/news/%C2%A324m-expansion-of-black-country-growth-deal
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says nothing about any link to Dudley Port, only the light rail innovation centre.

[wembley86]

Balfour Betty are saying they are schedule for the Birmingham Ext,  I recall there being two lots of down tools for the chrismas markets in brum, so thats about 10 weeks of no work completed.

Currently gas works/water works are been do on pinfiold street. look like work could be progressing on the centinary square ext

[RW]

Balfour Betty are saying they are schedule for the Birmingham Ext,  I recall there being two lots of down tools for the chrismas markets in brum, so thats about 10 weeks of no work completed.

Currently gas works/water works are been do on pinfiold street. look like work could be progressing on the centinary square ext

Does anyone know for certain whether the work on Pinfold Street is actually in connection with the Centenary Sq. extension. Clearly it is work that would be needed to be done but would Centro sanction the work before a decision on the Extension Public Inquiry has been published? Thought it would have been issued by now but no sign yet apparently!

[Stu]

Does anyone know for certain whether the work on Pinfold Street is actually in connection with the Centenary Sq. extension. Clearly it is work that would be needed to be done but would Centro sanction the work before a decision on the Extension Public Inquiry has been published? Thought it would have been issued by now but no sign yet apparently!

Centro already has approval to build the extension to Centenary Square, the public inquiry/consultation was about amending the proposals so the tram extension could better serve the new Paradise Circus developments.
http://www.centro.org.uk/transport/metro/other-metro-extensions/centenary-square/the-details/

Regardless of the outcome, there will still be a tramline up Pinfold Street. Likewise, approval has been given to extend to Eastside/Digbeth, hence the 'junction' being built at Bull Street/Corporation Street. Better to do these works now before works commence to build the other extensions so as to avoid service disruptions!

[RW]

Centro already has approval to build the extension to Centenary Square, the public inquiry/consultation was about amending the proposals so the tram extension could better serve the new Paradise Circus developments.
http://www.centro.org.uk/transport/metro/other-metro-extensions/centenary-square/the-details/

Regardless of the outcome, there will still be a tramline up Pinfold Street. Likewise, approval has been given to extend to Eastside/Digbeth, hence the 'junction' being built at Bull Street/Corporation Street. Better to do these works now before works commence to build the other extensions so as to avoid service disruptions!

Thanks for that Stu. So have Centro got a contractor in place for the extension? Balfour Beatty continuing?

[wembley86]

also contractors are moving the gas and water pipes on broad st outside city of brum library

[BK63 YWP]

Wolverhampton's extension decision is due this year according to centro with a few revisions on the terminus due to a grade 2 building. One question when they lay the track down on pipers row wheres the current buses that use it going to get onto their normal line of route i.e. 81, 82, 529 40 79 39 etc

[Stevo]

When they dug up Pinfold St a couple of months ago on the left going up the barriers had Centro signs so that work was definitely Metro. The current holes haven't got such a sign but it doesn't mean they're not for the Metro, but to muddy the waters the council is doing its own works, something to do with energy.

[wembley86]

https://brumcitycentre.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/ground-investigation-works-on-broad-street/

[wembley86]

balfour beatty are suspending someworks in september because of the rugby world cup they are saying there will me to many people article attached

http://balfourbeattymidlandmetro.blogspot.co.uk/