David Jamieson, the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Birmingham, has proposed a new system that would allow for blanket bans on using public transport across the West Midlands for people who are repeatedly disruptive.

At present, individual injunctions are required to keep antisocial people off public transport, meaning someone can be banned from the network in one district but not in others.

Mr Jamieson said: “The current Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act gives only Transport for London the ability to use Criminal Behaviour Orders to ban people who persistently commit criminal acts on the region’s transport from using it.”
Helping passengers feel safe is a powerful way to encourage uptake of public transport. A recent study by the Department for Transport suggested that 11.5 per cent more journeys would be made in this way if travellers felt safer. In the West Midlands alone, this would amount to an extra 40 million trips every year.