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2026 Delivery Plan to Trans Consultation DRAFT ISSUE , Item 51. PDF 4 MB 2026 Delivery Plan for Transport CONSULTATIONDRAFT DRAFT (V2_29/03/17) 1 Contents 1. Introducing the Challenge ....................................................................................................................... 3 2. Our 2026 Delivery Plan ........................................................................................................................... 4 3. Towards an Agreed 10 Year Programme ................................................................................................. 5 4. On Track – A Rail Based Renaissance ...................................................................................................... 6 5. Driving Growth – the Strategic Road & Key Route Networks ................................................................... 9 6. HS2 Connectivity and Growth ............................................................................................................... 11 7. A Gateway to the Air ............................................................................................................................ 12 8. The Bus Alliance and Beyond ................................................................................................................ 12 9. Metro, SPRINT and Very-Light Rail – the rapid transit elements of our Metropolitan Rail and Rapid Transit Network ........................................................................................................................................... 14 9.1. Metro ................................................................................................................................................ 14 9.8. Very Light Rail .................................................................................................................................... 15 9.13. SPRINT ........................................................................................................................................... 16 10. Network Resilience ............................................................................................................................... 17 11. A Foundation of Technology and Evidence............................................................................................ 18 11.1. Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: ........................................................................................... 18 11.6. Data Driven – Evidence Led: ........................................................................................................... 20 12. SMART Payment Systems ..................................................................................................................... 21 “Mobility as a Service” ................................................................................................................................. 21 13. Mobility and Social Inclusion ................................................................................................................ 22 14. Mobility for Health and for a Clean Environment .................................................................................. 23 15. Improving Air Quality............................................................................................................................ 25 16. Co-ordinated Delivery in Corridors........................................................................................................ 26 17. Monitoring and Evaluation ................................................................................................................... 27 18. Programme Overview ........................................................................................................................... 29 Transport Delivery Corridors (with major land use sites) ................................................................................ 30 Birmingham and Solihull Infrastructure Planning Development Pressure Assumptions .................................. 30 Coventry Infrastructure Planning Development Pressure Assumptions .......................................................... 30 The Black Country Infrastructure Planning Development Pressure Assumptions ............................................ 30 2 travel behaviours. Furthermore, the area’s 1. Introducing the Challenge burgeoning manufacturing and automotive research and development economy is in the 1.1. The West Midlands Combined Authority global van-guard of new technology (WMCA) has set out an ambitious plan for development, creating both an unparalleled growth in its Strategic Economic Plan and has opportunity and a disruptive force which can, established a 20 year vision for the transport and must be, harnessed to positive effect. system needed to support this. The Movement for Growth strategic transport plan (MfG) 1.5. The area is in receipt of many new powers and articulates this vision and provides a high level freedoms as part of a radical devolution agenda. policy framework and overall long term This is underpinned by moves to redress decades approach for improving the transport system of under investment in the national tier of serving the West Midlands. infrastructure which directly serves and runs through the West Midlands - £24bn of HS2 Phase 1.2. This document, our first joint Delivery Plan and 1 construction; £1.8bn of Highways England supporting Annexes, provides a clear view of investment in its current five year investment what transport initiatives and schemes the plan (Road Investment Strategy 1); and £550m in WMCA will deliver by 2026 in line with Network Rail’s 5 year investment plan in our Movement for Growth. The measures are ‘classic’ railway network. (Control Period 5). designed to unlock economic growth opportunities and support wider initiatives to 1.6. Delivering this national scale investment improve the social well-being and lives of alongside the local transport investment residents. The plan will be updated annually to required to support growth (that is currently form a rolling 10 years delivery plan. strong and will be further stimulated by the new infrastructure) will require a level of inter-agency 1.3. The scale of the challenge is significant. In the cooperation that has rarely been seen before. next 20 years across the WMCA constituent New ways of collaborative working (covering our authority area population growth will increase staff, contracting and planning of works) will be by 444,000. The CA‘s Strategic Economic Plan central to our thinking. At the forefront of this aims to create 500,000 new jobs in the wider CA will be partnerships with our Universities and area by 2030. 1.2m additional journeys every industry, and the use of new technologies to day will need to be accommodated in the West create the most effective communication with Midlands by 2035 (in addition to the 8m daily all those travelling and investing in our area. journeys already accommodated by our transport system). 1.4. Alongside this, air quality issues with consequent health impacts, will require a radical re-think of 3 2. Our 2026 Delivery Plan Making Better Use of the A46 – A46 Coventry Junction Upgrades – Binley and Walsgrave roundabouts, A45-A46 Tollbar End, A46 link 2.1. Our first delivery phase of the long term Camp Hill Rail Chords, to increase Central Movement for Growth strategic transport plan is Birmingham Rail Capacity - key part of the £5m based on two over-arching principles: Midlands Connect Midlands Rail Hub evaluation study and Bordesley Chords is a £200m scheme, Ensuring all parts of the West Midlands are as part of the HS2 Connectivity Package “plugged-in” to the two High Speed Rail Water Orton corridor rail freight capacity Stations, and the significant growth and enhancements – a key part of the £5m Midlands development that is already happening at Connect, Midlands Rail Hub evaluation study Further electrification of key national and their locations. regional rail links – Barnt Green to Bromsgrove and Walsall to Rugeley Steering transport investment into priority Improved Connections to, and within, the UK corridors for new jobs and homes, providing Central Hub Area – M42 Junction 6, HS2 a joined up land use/transport planning Connectivity Package and Related Schemes: approach to support the aims of the Strategic Metro East Birmingham to Solihull, SPRINT Hall Economic Plan. Green to Interchange via Solihull, SPRINT – A45 – Airport, Interchange Hub, A45 Corridor 2.2. Through this approach, we will see strong Enhancement (Connectivity to UK Central, progress in delivery of Movement for Growth’s Birmingham Airport and HS2 Coventry and Warwickshire LEP scheme). key transport priorities. Some of the headline committed schemes and projects for the next MfG Key Transport Priorities for the delivery period are shown in Table 1, including Metropolitan Tier schemes in construction or recently opened. HS2 Connectivity Programme – HS2 Connectivity Package of 23 schemes, plus Metro Wednesbury to Brierley Hill and East TABLE 1 MOVEMENT FOR GROWTH KEY PRIORITIES AND Birmingham to Solihull. As well as already COMMITTED SCHEMES AND PROJECTS committed city centre metro extensions and agreed SPRINT programme. MfG Key Transport Priorities for the National and Regional Tier Metropolitan Main Road Network (‘Key Route New smart motorway sections - M6 Junctions Network’) Pinchpoint Junction Improvements 13 – 15, M40/M42 Interchange, development – A4101 Pensnett Strategic Access work on upgrading the remainder of the Improvement Scheme, Ashted Circus, A38 Birmingham Box to Smart
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