Birmingham City Council has agreed to extend a car share lane trial for a further year, while permanently removing a bus lane on another major road.
The trial car share lane trial on the A47 Heartlands Spine Road is to be extended for a further year, and will now allow heavy goods vehicles and hackney carriages.
Cllr Len Gregory, cabinet member for transportation and street services, said: ‘Monitoring of data has shown the car share lane has successfully moved more people in the same number or fewer vehicles along the corridor, which has had a positive impact on per person emission of pollutants and carbon.
‘However, the overall impact on the wider highway network in terms of reduced congestion and improved journey time appears to be neutral, he said.
Meanwhile, bus lanes on the Tyburn Road, which were suspended in September 2004 to accommodate diverted traffic during works on the M6, will not be brought back into operation. Monitoring of traffic flows has shown that general journey times have improved since the removal, without a real change in bus journey times.
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