I have re-read your email, below.
Your crusade, you mention, needs to be, I think, on the most achievable and urgent goals. That means:
Helping me stop the folly of building on the only feasible site for the rebuilt Dudley Castle Hill railway station. This, when the authorities SAY they want the passenger trains to return but are only building in "passive provision" for freight trains as they use the line for six to ten trams every hour! This is either a lie or incompetence or,
to put it more kindly, the top people are being disingenuous,
Do you think, Andi as men of integrity, that we should be doing all we can to point this out? Should we politely point out that their "passive provision" is so passive that it is non existent? How about a little activity to end the dearth of absent trains in the congested, traffic choked Black Country?
Should we helpfully point out to them that they are planning to spend ten times more per Km on the glitzy glamorous trams than simply putting back the commuter, regional and intercity trains, with Railfuture's nine stations? Do you think that all this might just be in line with your "political and financial constraints that exist", below?
Did you know that national FoE wrote, earlier this year, that there are 100 towns and cities with free bus travel, including 30 in the USA and 20 in France?
How about the W Mids GP arguing for this rather than, at a time of continuing austerity, nearly £2 BILLION on Metro and Sprint?
Please comment, Andi. You are our leader, after all.
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