Anyone on here going to be affected?
Yup, my new office is right in the centre, when they finish building it.
As others have said, its simply a lame excuse to raise money to pull down statues, and otherwise piss it up the wall, just like London.
Places like the Bullring will ultimately close - double whammy of losing their large stores already, plus the fact nobody will drive there to do, say, xmas shopping. Then suddenly, the council will be crying that the centre has died, and how its everybody's fault but theirs.... ....much like Oxford city council 
And, of course, they get no money from the charge 
They are causing congestion elseware, so they will have an excuse to widen the scheme until it takes in the whole of Birmingham.
Everyone will be confined to their houses, and only be able to order online.
Every road will become a bus or cycle lane if this council have their way.
They've already had to back track on the Bristol Road, after spending millions, as it made it too dangerous, now they're spending millions putting it back to how it was - yet the idiots keep voting them back it.