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CENTRO CRITICISED OVER SECOND BILSTON CENTRAL LIFT Centro have been criticised by local councilors over their failure to install a second lift at Bilston Central tramstop on the Midland Metro system. Only one lift is in place at the station which is in a cutting with stairs the only other way to get up to street level from either platform.
Centro have been looking into another lift since the summer of 2001 but have still not decided whether to go ahead with the scheme. Cllr Judith Rowley said: The consultants working on this project estimated the cost of the lift would be £200,000. Then further work found the scheme would cost £600,000 and this concerns me as we need to make this a fully accessible scheme. Line One (of the Metro) will only be fit for purpose when all sections of our community can use it.
A recent Centro meeting said that ramps, as fitted as other tramstops, were not feasible at Bilston Central and that the original site for a lift might not work because of a sewage pipe. A revised plan for a lift is said to cost £600,000.
Source: Birmingham Post
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