Dear Cllr Emma
I jumped at the opportunity to speak to you on Monday because you are now a member of the important Transport Committee of the WMCA, of which your council is a non-constituent member. Important because transport has easily the largest slice of the financial pie in the CA budget. What is more, it is not a meagre proportion! Out of the enormous amount, since 1981, hundreds of millions of pounds has been spent on the staff working on achieving one Metro line of 23 Kms of which 19 Kms is on the first mainline railway destroyed by Metro trams! This was between the now wasted for years, platform 4 at Snow Hill station and St Georges Sq in Wolverhampton - not even to the bus station, mind you, let alone the railway station to which Snow Hill was connected so successfully for 100 years!
The vast expenditure was supposed to have brought us ten tram lines over 200 Kms by the year of our Lord, 2000 CE. By then, 23 years ago, we had 20 Kms. In 23 years it has stretched to the mighty length of 23 Kms. Wonders will never cease! This year, it will be extended even further - all of 700 metres to the bus station and railway station in Wolverhampton.
Yet, we have my nearby town of Kiddi having the most dreadful, disgraceful, slum of a bus station I have ever seen! Broken roof panels, no seating, but a lovely graceful curve of a sort of very long bus shelter with two roof panels missing to shower the passengers with rain and, with the drivers on their rest break standing and smoking at one end and the poor passenger (ME!) at the other end!!
When there is so much money swishing around for highly prestigious and stunning looking trams at £4 million each, is there any way you might like to use your newly found power and influence to get a few funds for Worcestershire County Council? To repair or, God forbid, even replace the slum to get a proper, modern bus station like we have in Stourbridge and Halesowen.
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