I do want to see the Stourbridge Shuttle extended via the half used 350 space car park on Stourbridge Road; then along Coventry St and High St, back to the bus station. Phil Tonks seems to like this idea from his reply to my email. John Parry said he would not oppose it. I should hope not!
John Parry's PPM is not suitable for a 120 Kms mainline railway of national importance. It is the UK's only mothballed, easily reinstated, half finished, everything is there as regards every bridge, tunnel and viaduct bypass railway "of national strategic significance". Nor is a Metro tram or a tram train (still a tram) suitable for a mainline railway of the likes of ours that runs between Worcester and Derby via Dudley Castle Hill/Castle Gate. A tram and tram train are both suitable for the 20 Kms between Sheffield Cathedral and Rotherham Parkgate. Both the tram and the tram train stop at every tram stop on those 20 Kms. It is ludicrous to spoil our mainline railway that runs parallel to or close to M5/M6 by putting trams and tram trains that must stop, on average, every 650 metres through the urban Black Country.
Trams are called "bus on rails" by the national tram promotion group that has its HQ at Transport HQ at 16 Summer Lane. Hence, the trams for over £1.5 BILLION now replacing buses and trains in Brum and the Black Country.
Connect Stourbridge Jct and Brierley Hill with a commuter TRAIN not tram of any kind, please. You all want the tram from Brierley Hill to Wednesbury that you will get, it seems. Main work starts in the third quarter of this year. However, connect Wednesbury and Burton on Trent with commuter and regional TRAINS. After Metro goes on a total of 6.7 Kms, this still leaves a total of 49.3 Kms AND Railfuture's nine railway stations for the settlements that are desperate for their railway line back to relieve motorway and main road congestion.
You will then have a train-tram-train mainline railway "of national strategic significance", at best. This will be a world first, I understand. It is not something the UK should be proud of or, noted for around the world. Such a bizarre use of an important, national, mainline railway will mean something else for the UK to be seen as a laughing stock around the world!
I am available to see Qadar (perhaps Patrick, too?) at anytime and any date over the next three weeks, except morning 20 June to 1200 hrs; from 1100 hrs on Mon 24 June to 1300 hrs and Friday morning 28 June - WMCA AGM in Brum. And I can't do Monday morning 1 July in the third week.
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