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The Birmingham Clean Air Zone is the area inside the A4540 Middleway ring road (yellow), not including the road itself.. The zone covers the urban area inside the A4540 Middleway ring road, excluding the road itself, but including the Jewellery Quarter, the Chinese Quarter, the main shopping district, the area around Birmingham New Street railway station, and the rest of Birmingham city centre.
The Middleway, officially designated as the A4540 and signposted as ring road, is an orbital road in Birmingham, England.Serving as the sole ring road of the city, it runs around Birmingham city centre at a distance of approximately 1 mile (1.6 km).
The Aston Expressway approaching Birmingham City Centre. The A38(M) runs from the A5127 through Gravelly Hill Interchange where the A38 joins and then shortly after traffic from the M6 motorway also joins. It then enters a tidal flow section. The road is on a viaduct as it passes through Aston; this section cuts through the grounds of Aston ...
Birmingham has the highest proportion of rail commuters in England outside London. [13] In the past few decades the proportion of journeys into central Birmingham by rail has grown sharply: 27% of journeys into Birmingham city centre in the peak hours were made by rail in 2012, compared to 17% in 2001, and 12% in 1991. [14] [15]
Queensway, in Birmingham, England, most often refers to the Queensway Tunnel, a 1,798 feet (548 m) long road tunnel in the centre of the city. [1] The tunnel forms part of the designated A38, which locally is a major carriageway that cuts through Birmingham city centre.
Birmingham city centre, also known as Central Birmingham, is the central business district of Birmingham, England. The area was historically in Warwickshire . Following the removal of the Inner Ring Road , the city centre is now defined as being the area within the Middleway ring road. [ 1 ]
Known as the Hagley Road in Birmingham, the A456 is a main road in England running between Central Birmingham and Woofferton, Shropshire, south of Ludlow.Some sections of the route, for example Edgbaston near Bearwood, are also the route of the Elan Aqueduct which carries Birmingham's water supply from the Elan Valley.
This is a list of the constituent towns, villages and areas of Birmingham (both the city and the metropolitan borough) in England.. Between 1889 and 1995, the city boundaries were expanded to include many places which were once towns or villages in their own right, many of which still retain a distinctive character.