A45 Rapid Transit City-Airport (Birmingham & Solihull)

Total value: £50m

Local Growth Fund: £35m (provisional allocation)

Lead partner: Centro

This project will deliver a 16.5km SPRINT rapid transit scheme from Birmingham City Centre along the A45 to Birmingham International Station and HS2 Interchange. This will deliver a major upgrade to public transport in this corridor, linking Birmingham city centre, residential areas of East Birmingham and key transport and economic sites.

In doing so it will provide a high quality transport solution serving the Eastern Growth Corridor which has been identified to accommodate Birmingham’s growing population and UK Central the region’s most significant development location.

Funding will be available from 2017/18 to 2020/21.