{"id":61573,"date":"2026-01-21T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61573"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:24:47","slug":"consultation-starts-for-change-in-west-midlands-metro-byelaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61573","title":{"rendered":"Consultation starts for change in West Midlands Metro byelaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed change in the West Midlands Metro byelaws has been put forward by the West Midlands Combined Authority, with a consultation period now open for anyone to make comments on the amendments.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The updates being proposed are intended to strengthen fare enforcement, improve passenger safety, and modernise operational practices across the network.<\/p>\n<p>The main changes within the proposed byelaws come under the \u201cTickets and Concessions\u201d area, which includes the addition of a new clause that requires passengers to retain their tickets whilst remaining on West Midlands Metro property.<\/p>\n<p>There are also other general updates, which includes the addition of vaping products and e-cigarettes in the prohibition of smoking any lighting smokeables.<\/p>\n<p>Any comments on the proposed changes can be made to directly to the Department for Transport with a deadline of Saturday 14<sup>th<\/sup> February 2026.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The current byelaws are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlandsmetro.com\/about\/legal\/the-midland-metro-system-byelaws\/\">https:\/\/www.westmidlandsmetro.com\/about\/legal\/the-midland-metro-system-byelaws\/<\/a>, with the proposed new byelaws at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfwm.org.uk\/who-we-are\/what-we-do\/west-midlands-metro-tram-extensions\/byelaws-2026\/\">https:\/\/www.tfwm.org.uk\/who-we-are\/what-we-do\/west-midlands-metro-tram-extensions\/byelaws-2026\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed change in the West Midlands Metro byelaws has been put forward by the West Midlands Combined Authority, with a consultation period now open for anyone to make comments on the amendments.<\/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\/61573"}],"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=61573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61574,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61573\/revisions\/61574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}