Birmingham: Airport Infrastructure, Construction & Developments

[SRDey]

Definitely agree with this SRDey, Birmingham is a great city that has vastly become an excellent business and social hub, and travellers should acknowledge what the city has to offer.

Why Thank You @Vinny94 😊 Birmingham is an up and coming city we need to promote the entire city in a positive light and I think we Brummies & West Midlanders can make this the best Airport Art Project that’s better any other in the world combined.

 

[GliderPilot]

they might or might not listen to you @SRDey but its always worth a try, they’re only an email away 🙂

EDIT: corrected my illiteracy

 

[SRDey]

they might or might not listen to you @SRDey but its always worth a try, they’re only an email away 🙂

EDIT: corrected my illiteracy

Thank you @GliderPilot it is defiantly worth a try 😊

 

[Ray Finkle]

I think it's definitely worth an email, even just to test the water.

 

[SRDey]

I think it's definitely worth an email, even just to test the water.

Sure no problem as what harm can it possibly do 😏. I will start it soon so wish me luck

 

[Ianbutty]

It might be worth running the idea past the organisers of Coventry City of Culture or the Commonwealth Games organisers or an arts group. They can provide advice and help get you a foot through the door.

 

[SRDey]

It might be worth running the idea past the organisers of Coventry City of Culture or the Commonwealth Games organisers or an arts group. They can provide advice and help get you a foot through the door.

Thank you for the idea @Ianbutty worth a shot. I am Brainstorming and drafting so please keep those brilliant ideas coming guys 😉.

 

[Ray Finkle]

More details of the HS2 automated people mover have been released. The article below suggests that the designs are being finalised and will be released in the autumn, good to hear as the last image looks more like Tyseley Waste Depot. There are also events planned with details on the link.

HS2 reveals designs for automated 'people mover' | TheBusinessDesk.com

Driverless transport system to connect HS2 and the Arden Cross site to the NEC and Birmingham Airport

www.thebusinessdesk.com

The main points are

Services every three minutes
Interchange to Birmingham airport in six minutes
2.3km long route – from Interchange to Birmingham Airport
Approximately 20m long vehicles
Capable of carrying 2,100 passengers per hour in each direction
Travel on a viaduct for entire route – 12m off the ground at its highest point

 

[Ray Finkle]

Birmingham Live have the article with some larger pictures, thankfully it seems that the building resembling a waste recycling plant is the maintenance depot.

This picture below is shocking. It's meant to be the HS2 end of the stop but to me looks more like something that I'd expect to find in Barnt Green handling one train per hour. After paying good money for flight and train tickets are they really expecting passengers to stand in what looks like a large bus shelter when England has the climate that it does? I can imagine being there on a cold day in Feb when the sleet is being blown sideways across the platform 👎

To get the most from this the people mover needs to be integrated into the station to give seamless transition whatever the weather. I just hope that this isn't the final design.

New images reveal new shuttle service from HS2 station to Birmingham Airport

New visuals have been released showing the 1.4-mile long route which will operate using 20-metre long carriages

www.birminghammail.co.uk

 

[jfy1999]

Incredible that they seem unable to integrate it at either end. Maybe it's a different architectural/engineering team from the one doing the station? That's the only explanation I can think of and if true it suggests an appalling lack of cooperation between the teams, that they can't match or better something done in the 80's 👎

(If the Birmingham Mail mentions this, I don't know. The website keeps crashing for me)

 

[Ianbutty]

HS 2 link: and repeat repeatedly until the world ends.

 

[paul]

Hi just been to the hs2 consulting event got a lot of feedback of what the are hoping to achieve but one subject what stood out they kept going on about j l r and jobs told them wasn't impressed with the artist impression of the people mover also the 5'000 new homes will be apartments according to people I spoke to

 

[Ray Finkle]

told them wasn't impressed with the artist impression of the people mover

Hopefully they'll take the feedback on board and do something about it.

Even if it's not feasible to dedicate a specific platform to the people mover surely it's possible for the line to end next to the station so passengers can disembark in a completely enclosed area, similar to the air rail link that we have now?

 

[58terminus]

Hi just been to the hs2 consulting event got a lot of feedback of what the are hoping to achieve but one subject what stood out they kept going on about j l r and jobs told them wasn't impressed with the artist impression of the people mover also the 5'000 new homes will be apartments according to people I spoke to

That's what PR people are programed to talk about,Environment,jobs and homes. Of course they are dodgy ground with the first so best leave that out.
Ask them about details of the actual thing they are being employed to build.cost.completion date.number of homes demolished etc and they are floundering.

 

[Jon Dempsey]

LOL,

As an IT consultant, I used to go to exhibitions and question the salesmen about the products they were hawking.
They were either tap dancers of the ilk of Fred Astaire, or downright rude. Either way, they didn't "win" the sale.🙂

 

[Ray Finkle]

It seems as if a few others were less than impressed with the HS2 people mover designs.

If it is to go in for a rethink I hope that they can do something with the station end to make it integrate better.

Call to rethink 'ugly' building for HS2's shuttle service

Solihull councillors unhappy with designs for the facility

www.birminghammail.co.uk

 

[Ianbutty]

It seems as if a few others were less than impressed with the HS2 people mover designs.

If it is to go in for a rethink I hope that they can do something with the station end to make it integrate better.

Call to rethink 'ugly' building for HS2's shuttle service

Solihull councillors unhappy with designs for the facility

www.birminghammail.co.uk

The planners and councillors are right. It is terrible. HS2 might be in a financial mess but ugliness like that will win noone round. Time for inspiration. If this was in my Council are i would be recommending refusal...in fact it would have not through the pre-app stage!

 

[jfy1999]

Strange that no one seems to have mentioned the lack of integration with the station or the airport buildings.

Any councillor looking to grab the headlines could have had a field day, given the fact that passengers will be made to wait for their shuttle under a tiny little canopy in the British weather!

 

[58terminus]

It does make you think they are not serious about it.As costs increase and criticism of it increases from the London press then some things
will have to be sacrificed. It is after all a project to link the UK's biggest conurbations.A few more million (no lots more) to link it to an airport that is already linked to a busy Inter City line and does not historically seem to have been bothered to take full advantage of it.
How many rail links does 1 medium sized airport need?
Tin hat on

 

[Ray Finkle]

It does make you think they are not serious about it.

I must admit that thought entered my mind.

Make the designs as terrible as possible then there won't be as much disappointment when the whole thing is cancelled.