{"id":43748,"date":"2022-02-24T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43748"},"modified":"2022-02-24T17:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T17:44:42","slug":"wmca-budget-approved-for-west-midlands-metro-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43748","title":{"rendered":"WMCA budget approved for West Midlands Metro extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest West Midlands Metro Combined Authority\u2019s (WMCA) budget for 2022\/23 has been approved with \u00a3379 million of the total \u00a3879.2 million due to be spent on transport \u2013 including West Midlands Metro extensions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The approved capital budget going towards transport aims to improve connectivity, drive economic growth and cut carbon emissions by making it both easier and more attractive for people to switch to public transport. Highlights of the package for the Metro include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The on-going construction of the Wednesbury to Brierley Hill and Birmingham Eastside Metro tram extensions<\/li>\n<li>A new bus and Metro interchange station in Dudley Town Centre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is also a \u00a3143 million Transport Revenue budget which includes \u00a359 million for concessionary travel for older people, the blind, disabled and children.<\/p>\n<p>The budget was approved by the WMCA Board on Friday 11<sup>th<\/sup> February and also includes funding for infrastructure, land regeneration and job training schemes to help the region\u2019s post-Covid economic recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest West Midlands Metro Combined Authority\u2019s (WMCA) budget for 2022\/23 has been approved with \u00a3379 million of the total \u00a3879.2 million due to be spent on transport \u2013 including West Midlands Metro extensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43749,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43748\/revisions\/43749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}