Do you agree that Bob and you should be arguing to stop wasting the millions of pounds of our European and UK taxes trying to get the network of fifteen tramlines of 200 Km by 2000 across the Black Country and Birmingham? It was never delivered in 34 years, since 1981, of being very trying to get them. Yet, the work continues at huge expense.
Do you agree that, INSTEAD, you could simply get Network Rail, the Combined Authority, Centro and the ITA on side to put back the trains and stations on the 78 miles of unused/underused, double track freight lines? They all had successful passenger trains and stations for 100 years until fifty years ago. Your colleagues in Network Rail and in Scotland have done it in rural, depopulated, southern Scotland for £300 million for 30 miles, this very year! Reverse the urban Beeching cuts to improve our 'connectivity', too.
Now, please do it in the heavily congested and the growing population in the Black Country and Brum. I suggest, the 74 Km Western Bypass rail line, re-opened first to also reduce the train congestion at Grand Central Shopping Centre and basement station.
Why do you all persist in putting up with struggling along congested roads, some literally alongside underused or even empty, double track rail lines?
Remember, Gail, countless business cases and transport plans to improve 'connectivity', over the decades, have been written to justify this long-running, sad, state of affairs.
With every good wish
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