Shaping Birmingham’s Transport

Well, the build-up towards the event is certainly picking up pace as we near 2 months to the date of the youth conference. We recently launched the competition, and this week we’re doing some further press work - so keep your eyes and ears open.

Stephen Rhodes (Director of Bus and Highways, CENTRO) and Martin Hancock (Commercial Director - Bus and Coach, National Express) have confirmed that they will be joining Cllr Len Gregory (Cabinet Member for Transportation, Birmingham City Council) to attend the event and listen to young people’s ideas on Birmingham’s transport. This shows how seriously the project is being taken by the decision-makers across the city. In the next few weeks, we will be confirming many more names of relevant people who have been invited to attend.

Registration for people wanting to attend the event was also opened recently and we’ve had keen interest from a lot of young people across the city, so I’d suggest that you head over to the Conference page and fill in the application form as soon as possible to snap some places. To ensure that we have a representative group of young people attending the event, we are limiting places to 5 per institution (i.e. school, college, youth group).

The Shaping Birmingham’s Transport group on Facebook has been rapidly increasing in members since its launch, and there are some interesting discussions taking place on it. So I’d definitely recommend having a look and adding your own input - as it could influence what is discussed at the conference.

The Your Vision 2026 Competition is now open for your entries!

We are looking forward to receiving some fantastic work from talented young people across the city.

The deadline for this competition is Tuesday 3rd March 2009 @ 1800. For more information, head over to the competition page.

The WINNING Entry will receive a FREE bus pass and a BICYCLE for each member of the group!

Get started now!!!

Go ahead and post here if you are interested in entering the competition Pav detailed below; if you drop a comment, leaving your name and e-mail address (the e-mail address will be kept confidential) on this post, we will get back to you quickly with details. Or, just leave a quick note if you have any questions about either the Transport Summit event on the 2nd of April, the competition, or the work our Steering group is doing at the moment.

Hello and welcome to the Shaping Birmingham’s Transport blog, home of Birmingham’s Young People’s Transport Summit 2009. Do you feel like transport around Birmingham isn’t quite heading where it should be? Have you got any ideas on what you’d do to improve it? Is it time to start saying good-bye to the car in parts of the city for good? If you’ve got feedback on these, or any other transport issues concerning the Birmingham transportation network and want it heard, this is the blog for you.

If you’d like more information on what the project and blog are trying to achieve, click on the About Us link on the main page. Over the next few months the Steering Group will be posting here to update you of what’s going on, get feedback and comments and also we’ll be accepting registration to attend the event.

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