Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂

Birmingham first and foremost. Extremely pro-transit. Birmingham underground advocate

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

incredibly incredibly bold to assume people wouldn’t have still complained

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Crazy how much HS2 was fumbled. Spent 100bn and still ended up with a design virtually nobody likes.

I bet the design on the right would have actually saved money by avoiding the perceived need for as much pointless tunnelling.

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@Holteleftside7 because they somehow can’t use other roads at other times and just adjust to this bottleneck not existing and traffic overall being reduced?

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

the perfect spot for a metro line is right there but no one is brave enough to campaign to knock down the aston expressway

[PrimeTimeVilla @Primetimeperry]

England’s second city

Birmingham Forward

#AVFC #VillaPark 🟣🔵

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@Holteleftside7 the vast majority of freight traffic is during the day and it’s disingenuous to pretend otherwise

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@Holteleftside7 they should use alternative routes or deliver at quieter times then. the city shouldn’t be held ransom by motorists just because it’s more convenient.

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@timbobelino @Dpn76 which is an even better case for removing it altogether

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@_stonyd you don’t need to map that across the city. between selly oak and erdington high street is a corridor perfect for a light metro, and potentially even a heavy metro dependent on how much else is built

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@StuartCrabbe monorails are very very useless

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@UtvMy @_stonyd i agree, they just use the word to make it sound more fancy

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@unhingednuggs thanks for the link, really good site to use

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@Dpn76 yes, people shouldn’t be driving into city centre

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@UtvMy @_stonyd we have a tram, that isn’t a metro

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@_stonyd yes that is a metro

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@brianpiehouse it’s better for it to be a few minutes walk. if it’s too close it crowds more since trains can’t take people fast enough and there’s less space for the crowds to spread out

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

F, since it contains the least amount of milton keynes

[Ben Hair @Viral_Ben]

You've just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid holiday to Milton Keynes. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What are you picking?

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

do this on the tube with the premier league now!

[Feker 🇰🇵 @Fekerfanta]

Corea del Norte ha comenzado a retransmitir los partidos de La Liga en el metro de Pyongyang.

De nuevo la señal totalmente pirateada.

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

when during trumps presidencies has he ever shown regard for the law?

[Tom Colicchio @tomcolicchio]

It’s against the law

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

1 party lib dem britain

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Aggregate Result of the 5 Council By-Elections Since the 2026 Local Elections:

LDM: 3 (+2) | 28.2% (+7.7)
CON: 1 (-) | 21.5% (+0.8)
GRN: 1 (-) | 19.0% (-1.4)
RFM: 0 (-) | 21.5% (+21.5)
LAB: 0 (-) | 4.7% (-11.9)
Ind: 0 (-1) | 3.6% (-6.2)
Loc: 0 (-1) | 0.0% (-10.1)

https://t.co/9hLSSJO6Po

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@HistoricalBrum wherever feasible freight and passenger services shouldn’t be running on the same tracks, capacity for both is reduced this way and negatively impacts the economy. within cities the primary goal is improving passenger connections, which delivers the greatest impact in cities.

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

we HAVE to build under the a38 to alleviate pressure here. 4tph is diabolical, 6tph is difficult due to capacity, any higher is nigh on impossible. knock down the expressway, build an automated subway line, reap the benefits. it’s that simple

[Simon Paul Felton @Feltip1982]

From @rail magazine. The @westmidrailway cross city line is officially the busiest local route outside London. #Birmingham

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

@tedtweets6 fiscal rules mean if it’s over budget it’s also massively delayed, which with inflation makes it even more over budget due to increased labour and material costs, which delay it even further etc etc. it’s just a delay feedback loop because we won’t just spend money now

[Benjamin-Robert🔶🐂 @BenjaminOCall]

if opened on schedule (last weekend of august 2026) the tram to digbeth would’ve taken 6 and a half years to build 6 and a half kilometres of track. if brierley hill takes the same amount of time it won’t be open until 2030. pretty sure russia are advancing quicker