SOUND BITES!

GET TRAINS NOT TRAMS ON OUR SURVIVING RAILWAY NETWORK.  More info from timweller1@gmail.com

PUT PASSENGER TRAINS/STATIONS BACK ON OUR SECOND SUTTON RAILWAY LINE.  More info from timweller1@gmail.com

PUT PASSENGER TRAINS/STATIONS BACK ON OUR SECOND STOURBRIDGE RAILWAY LINE.  More info from timweller1@gmail.com 

TRAMS ARE SO EXPENSIVE THEY ARE IMMORAL.  ALL YOU NEED IS THE £1.5 BILLION to give us electric, fareless buses for everyone.  More info from timweller1@gmail.com

SCRAP SPRINT DIESEL BUSES NOT PLATINUMS.  Use the over £300 million, instead, to give us fareless, electric buses for all.  More info from timweller1@gmail.com

VANITY, FLASH, PRESTIGIOUS, STATUS SYMBOL TRAMS are un-green, un-ecological and unethical.  More info from timweller1@gmail.com

BUSES NOT TRAMS MUST BE "THE FIRST CHOICE OF URBAN TRANSPORT", said George Monbiot.  More info from timweller1@gmail.com

OUR REGIONAL (SAD/HOPELESS/PATHETIC) POLITICIANS STILL PUT EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK ON OUR, NOW, MUCH DIMINISHED RAILWAY NETWORK!  More info from timweller1@gmail.com

THE ESSENCE OF WHY THE BLACK COUNTRY RAILWAY MUST BE FINISHED:

GLORIOUS ENGLISH ECCENTRICITY: the UK's only mothballed, easily reinstated, ready made but they forgot the trains and stations, mainline railway.  Our Great Brave Brexit Britain for you!

WHICH IS MORE SENSIBLE THINKING?

2 or 3 fast regional trains every hour and nine new stations to complete the 120 Kms between Worcester and Derby;  OR: 6 to 10 "bus on rails" trams every hour and 17 tram stops over only 11 Kms to STOP the reinstatement of the railway "of national strategic significance."

SMART POLITICIANS?

£449 m plus cost overruns to build the Black Country Tramline over 6.7 Kms that destroys the Black Country Railway over 56 Kms.  All 56 Kms can get commuter/regional trains back for less than £200 m (2015 figure).  Or, stupid politicians?

SMART RAILWAYS?

Why CUT a 120 Kms principal, mainline railway through the congested West Midlands with a tramline in two halves, a railway test track and a trail of trees, Japanese knotweed and undergrowth, when absent trains on 56 Kms of track could have their trains and stations back, FOR LESS MONEY than using trams on only 6.7 Kms?

Tim Weller   Prospective Independent candidate for W Mids Metro Mayor 2020 to instil some urgency into how changes in transport, jobs and housing policy can reduce the impact of human climate breakdown and postpone Attenborough's "collapse of civilisations" and "extinction of much of the natural world" and "time is running out" warnings.

For a more sensible, cost effective and easier ways to reduce congestion and pollution.  Fareless, electric buses for ALL; not for the few, like me!  To free up road space for essential users.  Paid for by abandoning Metro, diesel Sprint and CAZ.  Workplace parking levy to reward parents who drop off and pick up their school children by two wheels or two legs or, who run the school walking bus.  Payments at the end of term for fossil free, self-powered parents who sign their weekly claim form.