Sprint is far too expensive and is NOT even electric. “Low emission vehicles (Euro VI or better emissions, with an aspiration to operate with zero emission vehicles when practicable)”
Use the money to extend free bus and tram travel from the disabled and elderly like me to EVERYONE and start a sea change in attitudes to free up road space for those who really do need their vehicles for their businesses.
Bus use is declining, routes cut and fares rising faster than inflation. In the House of Commons, at PMQs in July, Jeremy Corbyn said, "Fares are increasing, routes cut, passenger numbers falling, isolating elders and disabled people, damaging communities and High Streets and causing more congestion in our towns and cities. People are spending more time to travel to work and school. It is bad for our climate change commitments, bad for our air quality. Often, the only mode of transport for many people is the bus."
THEREFORE:
Turn the nearside lane into bus lanes instead of digging up the roads for trams.
Give traffic light priority to ALL buses with their fareless passengers.
Use the money to give us ALL electric buses.
Use Metro and Sprint money to bring ALL towpaths and bridleways and shared footways into use by cycles. Smooth all weather surfaces, please.
Use the money from abandoning the WORLD’S FIRST project to turn a mainline railway into a tram line. This is the 120 Kms Worcester, Black Country, Derby mainline “of national strategic significance” into a piddling little tramline of 6.7 Kms plus, of course, a test track, trees and, Japanese knotweed!
TELL THESE VIPs AND COUNCIL LEADERS WHAT YOU THINK:
andy.street@wmca.org.uk andrew.browning@wmca.org.uk cllr.mike.bird@walsall.gov.uk roger.lawrence@wolverhampton.gov.uk rsleigh@solihull.gov.uk Ian.Ward@birmingham.gov.uk Cllr.Patrick.Harley@dudleymbc.org.uk steve_eling@sandwell.gov.uk george.duggins@coventry.gov.uk
No comments:
Post a Comment