Sadly, the coalition of chaos now in charge of Birmingham, under the boot of the people who really run the council, is succumbing to the fad for imposing 20 mph zones wherever a hated motorist might once have ventured.
The net result will not be full buses, trams and trains. It will be fewer visitors, fewer businesses, less money, more decline and dereliction. The city may become greener and cleaner but there will be less economic activity and Birmingham’s tragic decline will accelerate as drivers jam on the brakes.
The fanatics will have finally won their long-standing war on the motorist. Nobody will want to drive in or around Birmingham again if there is any alternative.
The city of a thousand trades is already the city of a thousand vacant shops. Unemployment in Birmingham is the worst of any big city, having hit 13.5 per cent of the workforce – almost three times the national average. In Handsworth it’s almost 20 per cent. Youth unemployment is 19.3 per cent.
Only two-thirds of Birmingham’s adults have a job compared with 75 per cent nationally.
Of course, speed limits are necessary and the city’s dire unemployment figures don’t have much to do with the war on motorists. But they do have some impact and forcing people to crawl along at 20 is bound to make the city economy worse than it already is.
It would be nice to think the coalition of chaos would do what it can to make the city more prosperous rather than doing its damndest to turn Birmingham into benefits central. But then the big cheeses are Lib-Dems and Greens so all is lost.
https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/downloads/file/31966/unemployment_update_-_august_2026
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