£2.6m cost of scrapped Tyburn Road bus lane in Birmingham

The final cost of Birmingham’s ill-fated Tyburn Road bus lane will be more than £2.6 million, it has been revealed.

For the first time, Birmingham City Council has disclosed how much it spent on the bus lane on the busy A38 commuter route before abandoning it after five years because it slowed traffic down instead of easing congestion.

The cost of setting up the lane, which ran from Spaghetti Junction to Kingsbury Road, Erdington, was £2.5 million.

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