City on the go

Birmingham offers a blueprint for highway management projects, says City Council Cabinet Member for Transport, Environment and Regeneration Timothy Huxtable.

As England's second city, Birmingham is home to one of the most important road networks in the UK, providing vital transport links between some of the country's largest industrial and metropolitan hubs. It also boasts one of the busiest major motorway networks, carrying around three million vehicles each day. Birmingham has the most accessible city centre in the UK of any outside of London and an annual budget of over £3.5bn – the largest in Europe.

With one million people living and 500,000 people working in the city, it is pivotal to Birmingham's economic prosperity that the highway network is both improved and maintained.

In March 2010 The Department of Transport (DfT) awarded more than £600m in PFI credits to Birmingham City Council under a contract that will see the implementation of vital improvements and maintenance to local roads over 25 years. The Birmingham Highways Maintenance and Management Service is the largest and most complex local government highways maintenance and management PFI in the UK.

What does the highway maintenance contract involve?
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