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Commonwealth Games, Birmingham 2022

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They are assuming everyone will want to cycle, or will now all be home-working
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Approaching the flyover from the aldridge rd, to wards the city. The walsall road traffic meets the now single lane aldridge traffic .who thought this one up?.40mph meets 20mph ? ???? .think l will go around the old crown and cushion island instead its safer
 
The outside of Selfridges is to be revamped for the Games.
www.ikon-gallery.org

Osman Yousefzada designs a striking new installation for Selfridges at Bullring | Ikon

The iconic Selfridges building at Bullring is set for major renovation work beginning in Autumn 2020 with completion expected ahead of the Commonwealth Games in 2022. During this time, the building will be covered in a striking installation created by Birmingham-born artist
www.ikon-gallery.org www.ikon-gallery.org
I prefer the old version, I think. this looks like something from a comic ( or graphic novel as the more illiterate members of the community call them)
 
mikejee said:
The outside of Selfridges is to be revamped for the Games.
www.ikon-gallery.org

Osman Yousefzada designs a striking new installation for Selfridges at Bullring | Ikon

The iconic Selfridges building at Bullring is set for major renovation work beginning in Autumn 2020 with completion expected ahead of the Commonwealth Games in 2022. During this time, the building will be covered in a striking installation created by Birmingham-born artist
www.ikon-gallery.org www.ikon-gallery.org
I prefer the old version, I think. this looks like something from a comic ( or graphic novel as the more illiterate members of the community call them)
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Isn't this a temporary covering for the scaffolding that has been erected?
 
What I cannot understand a decision which I now believe has been put back to December, and may well be put back further Is to have the clean air zone enforced by a congestion charge. One point of the zone I believe
starts around the inner ring road by the Newtown swimming, and fitness centre.m
So Perry Barr has all this so called up grade, but what ever way you come into the centre of Birmingham via Walsall Road or even College Road you will have to pay a congestion fee if your car is too old.
 
Diane1947 said:
What I cannot understand a decision which I now believe has been put back to December, and may well be put back further Is to have the clean air zone enforced by a congestion charge. One point of the zone I believe
starts around the inner ring road by the Newtown swimming, and fitness centre.m
So Perry Barr has all this so called up grade, but what ever way you come into the centre of Birmingham via Walsall Road or even College Road you will have to pay a congestion fee if your car is too old.
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Clean air zone won't start at Newtown baths on the Walsall road. The outer border for the zone is the A 4040 ring road.
 
Diane1947 said:
Bob I can be thick lol. So where is the A4040 Can you give me a landmark.
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The A4040 is the inner ring road.

New John st, Icknield st, Ladywood middleway, Five Ways island to Bristol St, up Belgrave middleway, left to Camp hill island, Watery Lane, Lawley st to the end of Dartmouth st and the island where TK MAX is at New John st.
There is a detailed map on the Birmingham council website.
 
Bob Johnson said:
The A4040 is the inner ring road.

New John st, Icknield st, Ladywood middleway, Five Ways island to Bristol St, up Belgrave middleway, left to Camp hill island, Watery Lane, Lawley st to the end of Dartmouth st and the island where TK MAX is at New John st.
There is a detailed map on the Birmingham council website.
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Big mistake on my part. The ring road number is A4540 not 4040.
 
dont worry diane i am still trying to work out where t k max is on new john st...in fact the only new john st i know of at newtown row has now gone so there must be another one :D i am always losing my way :rolleyes:

lyn
 
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I think it Matalan Lyn, now I know what Bob’s talking about lol
So the old number 8 bus route was that at one time a ring road route?
 
Diane1947 said:
I think it Matalan Lyn, now I know what Bob’s talking about lol
So the old number 8 bus route was that at one time a ring road route?
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hi diane here is a map of the inner circle 8 route...think i grew up on this bus lol...the route has not really changed that much..i would always catch it at the nursery road stop which is at the bottom of villa st where i grew up

Number 8 Inner Circle Route..jpg
 
Thanks for posting the map Lyn, very interesting how there are five railway stations on route, with Aston half a mile away as the sixth. Joined up thinking or what.
 
I live in Smethwick where the swimming centre is being built, in fact from my living room window I can see it, as I'm on the 10th floor of a tower block.

Sandwell council decided that, despite having plenty of brownfield sites locally with so many factories having been demolished, to put the swimming centre on a playing field in the middle of a housing estate, with no main roads nearby. It's been chaos since the start, traffic holdups, you name it in fact they have had to demolish a island and are, we think putting traffic lights there because it's been too difficult for the lorries to negotiate the island.

Because of the new centre, two well used and popular baths are to be closed, the one Thimblemill Baths is a beautiful building and also has a lot of local history as well, I'll find some links and post them.

Most residents round here were against the playing fields being used, but the council rode roughshod over what we wanted as usual. No doubt when it's all over, the council tax payers of Sandwell will be left with another huge white elephant because where it is just isn't practical. I can't see it being used for many major events, the car park isn't going to be that big and the bus that runs directly outside it, is half hourly during the day, hourly at night and Sundays and goes round the Wrekin to get tbere.

I'd take some photos, but I use a Kindle Fire to access the site and my phone runs with Google pictures and I can't see how to get them on here, if I can work it out, I'll take some.

Some links and pictures of Thimblemill Baths.

britishlistedbuildings.co.uk

Smethwick Baths, Smethwick, Sandwell

Smethwick Baths is a Grade II listed building in Smethwick, Sandwell, England. See why it was listed, view it on a map, see visitor comments and photos and share your own comments and photos of this building.
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all of these sturdy houses from the entrance to the bus depot (which will also be demolished) on wellhead lane to aldridge road are all boarded up ready for demo...not counted them yet but looks like about 30

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all of these sturdy houses from the entrance to the bus depot (which will also be demolished) on wellhead lane to aldridge road are all boarded up ready for demo...not counted them yet but looks like about 30

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Presumably compulsory purchase and the people had no option but to probably take the loss and find somewhere else, was there an outcry about it?

Bob
 
not sure bob...those houses are directly in front of the bus depot which originally was all to be cleared for the games including building the olympic village but as we now know the council recently called time on that idea so they are just going to build new housing now. on the site of the old uni..i guess the deals with the owners of those houses was done well before the council pulled the plug on building the village...

lyn
 
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