Richard, You do have "HS2, supposedly the region’s most visible symbol of levelling up, is becoming a symbol of incompetence and mismanagement."
Do you agree that levelling up for the poor must mean levelling down for the rich? It never happens because the wealthy are in charge. For me, this is important to build a fairer, more equitable society w here we share what we have rather than greedily taking ever more without a thought for tomorrow. Let's take fewer finite resources, to leave something for our descendants because the planet is not expanding in line with our ever greedy demands. A more sharing, caring society for rich and poor less distanced.
It is the idiocy and incompetence of Metro expansion that is more the responsibility of our own councillors, MPs and officers than the idiocy and incompetence of fraudulent High Scam 2 that only benefits plane passengers in giving them a choice of plane or train. Only stations for the airports!
Metro and idiocy and incompetence because of railway lines taken for tramways when, 200 years ago, we were converting tramways to railways. Far from our 'Forward' motto, we are going back to the past. Astonishing!
I do like, "it chose to spend vast sums of money on prestige projects". But you do have to spell them out:- hundreds of millions on trams to destroy urban railway lines.
Tens of millions wasted on three manifestations of Centenary Sq between 2000 and 2020. Not much better for Victoria Square!
The inner ring road completed only to be destroyed in two places after a few years!
No more electric trams but just finish getting electric trains and buses.
No more electric trams until everyone has what we pensioners have - Fare-Free Public Transport for all, all day.
Finish the basics and obvious like electrification and not destroying our railways for very nice but flash, wealth flaunting, super-expensive Midland Metro.
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