It seems to be acceptable and orthodox conventional economic wisdom; both a deficit of £1 bn and spending £78 m on Jct 10; spending over £1.5 billion on five tram projects to replace bus routes and to destroy our second and even more important urban railway line; and spending over £300 m to replace Platinum diesel buses with Sprint diesel buses. For me, Metro and Sprint are complete idiocy and neither are wise spending of public funds. However, widening Jct 10 is understandable and follows on from their widening of Jct 4, Lydiate Ash on the M5, earlier this decade. I would have preferred a flyover at Jct 10 for traffic crossing M6. I opposed the destruction of flyovers and underpasses on Brum's inner ring road - at Masshouse Circus and St Martin's Circus.
If we put trains back on train lines, scrapped tram extensions and brought in fareless for all, electric buses across the West Midlands with traffic light priority, we would have less road congestion and less train overcrowding.
I am wanting a greener and more sustainable understanding and practice of economics and spending based on finite resources, finite planet, not enhancing the natural greenhouse effect and, living in harmony with natural systems.
Thanks again for letting me hold forth last Friday. I am now attending my own, local Pensioners' meetings at Shenstone Theatre in Halesowen.
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