WORK has started on a £43 million expansion of the West Midlands Metro (WMM) depot site at Wednesbury. Local councillors with responsibility for transport joined West Midlands Mayor Andy Street and WMM interim managing director Sophie Allison to mark the start of the project in late January.
The Potter’s Lane site is being extended in order to accommodate WMM’s increasing fleet of CAF-built Urbos trams. In 2019, WMM, which then had 21 of the Spanish-built vehicles, signed a deal for 21 more.