Spending review: Midlands Metro in Birmingham WILL go ahead
Oct 21 2010 by Edward Chadwick, Birmingham Mail
BIRMINGHAM’S vision to bring the Midlands Metro through the city centre will be turned in to reality after the scheme was surprisingly spared the axe.
The £127.1 million project survived cuts of 14 per cent at the Department for Transport and will be completed by 2014.
Delighted transport chiefs in the West Midlands say work to lay tracks will begin in 2012 but the scheme is already under way.
A total of £9 million has already been spent on creating a viaduct which will carry the tracks from the existing Metro terminus at Snow Hill to Upper Bull Street.
