Because our W Midlands transport bosses are using only a tiny fraction of the 120 Kms principal mainline railway for trams, I cannot end my campaign. Very inconvenient of them. 47.3 Kms is still left for something other than fresh air when every major structure for every motorway, main road, and all other roads and canals are built!
SURVEY:
Our ancestors built a mainline railway of 120 Kms (74 mls) through the heart of the 1 mill population of the Black Country. The mothballed and still unused middle section is to get 6.7 Kms for Metro trams; and, 2 Kms for a Very Light Rail test track.
What do YOU want on the remaining 47.3 Kms that can be used for either:-
1. Extend the Metro trams over more than 6 Kms, a longer test track and, linear woodland (vital to sequester CO2), plus cycle-walkway to finish the 120 Kms ("of national strategic significance") railway on the 50 Kms without the "bus on rails" trams on 6 Kms.
or,
2. Passenger trains returned to finish the 120 Kms ("of national strategic significance") railway on the 50 Kms without the "bus on rails" trams on 6 Kms.
END OF SURVEY - thank you!
MY PHOTOS: what you see described by one person as 'bizarre'; another called it 'bonkers':
Wasted 56 Kms from Stourbridge Jct to Burton on Trent on the ready built, but only half used, 120 Kms Worcester to Derby principal mainline railway:
Since the 1980s, the intention remains to fell these trees for an embankment/viaduct for the Metro tram when, 600m away, is the half-finished, half-used principal mainline railway that needs finishing and not wasted, unused and even destroyed in places:
When the 6 lane motorway opened in Dec 2003 with private money, it was half the estimated price per Km of Dudley tram construction that breaks up the 120 Kms intercity railway between Worcester and Derby.
16 years have passed for metal thieves to pinch the up line. It is taking an eternity - and more - to get the trains back because of Metro trams. The authorities suggest using the railway bridge for an extended cycle-walkway.
MISSION STATEMENT
Burton to Bristol via Brierley Hill; Derby to Devon via Dudley - by TRAIN not "bus on rails" trams as they are wanting; nor with new extended cycle-walkway, as volunteers are working o
ASSORTED PROPAGANDA- don't get corrupted:
W Mids Metro means a slower and longer journey for bus users and other road users.
It means more train overcrowding with trams being the second most expensive mode after HS2, diverting money away from reinstating TRAINS on railway lines.
More clogged streets and more changes on the Worcester to Black Country to Derby principal mainline railway.
£1.5 BILLION of Metro trams for five extensions to 2026 does NOT build a more sustainable society.
Metro tram billions add to austerity, to poverty and greenhouse gases to turn planet earth into uninhabitable venus, our 'twin' and sister planet.
Apparently, billions spent to boost greenhouse gases to get us out of the second most important international alliance after the UN, as the planet both burns and floods!! The housing crisis, social care/NHS cuts, education cuts. BUT, spending on armaments has gone up to 2% of GNP. A negligent, incompetent and foolish government. Nothing quite like ecocide, courtesy of the Queen and Her Majesty's Gone out of their mind, so called, 'government'!
Tim Weller Declared Independent candidate for W Mids Metro Mayor 2021 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.
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