Dear Editor
I smiled with delight at the headline, "MP backs cycleway on disused rail route". At last, a sensible MP wanting the major, 20 Kms Black Country Cycle-Walkway upgraded with an all weather surface and signs to allow many more walkers, commuter cyclists and horse riders to use it. However, as I continued reading I found that our darling Michael Fabricant MP was actually supporting the half completed 120 Kms Black Country Railway "of national strategic significance" being turned into a cycle-walkway (quote, from letter to self, dated 8 March 2018, from Network Rail and the DfT)! As I was sitting almost next to him at a Conservative Party meeting in Edgbaston, I tried to speak to him but, I was given the brush off. The man should have listened and learnt a thing or two!
Our other VIP is Cllr Roger Lawrence, Transport Boss of all he surveys in the Midlands. For all his time, as first councillor then Leader of Wolverhampton City Council this man has also wanted trams on only 6.7 Kms of the half completed 120 Kms railway "of national strategic significance". His idea is to block the commuter and regional trains for ever. Like deluded Michael, this guy actually says he has to have trams first, for £343 m, in order to get the 120 Kms finished with commuter and regional trains. This is unheard of anywhere else in the world! Both men suffer delusions in wanting trams to get trains. Both men like to pay once for trams, then twice for trains on the same line. Both men have more money than sense. Roger's policy is either dishonest, is thoroughly mixed up or, is as incompetent as well-meaning Michael MP!
Transport Boss Roger, in the summer when I asked him to graciously accept a sheet of paper from me, told me to "Stuff it up your arse" and walked on by! His mind is closed, he is so arrogant, that for a second time, he is wasting £343 million of taxpayers' money to fund his bizarre, his weird and wonderful obsession with trams on main line railways and roads to replace trains and buses. All he needs to do is to give us all free bus travel - not just for the old and decrepit, like me - and, electric buses like Nottingham. He must put trains on train lines when he has already provided every bridge and tunnel for the phantom trains to cross two motorways and three major dual carriageways as we all stew and quietly steam on our traffic choked roads.
PHOTOS for a little light relief. Exactly, where mistaken, uninformed Michael MP wants his cycle-walkway, instead of regional and national trains! Does he actually cycle, himself, as I do? Does he get stuck in traffic jams, as I do?
Two of our top politicians, from both major parties, are wanting the UK's only main line but easily reinstated in full, 120 Kms Black Country Railway, "of national strategic significance", to be turned into a piddling little tram line, a test track, a trail of trees and a cycle-walkway! No wonder our politicians are so poorly regarded. They are just not up to the job. Roger should definitely and gracefully retire. Soon to be followed by clueless Michael You've Got The Wrong Railway Line Fabricant!
Tim Weller (full contact details, below)
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