"As compensation/reward for doing the right thing in using the bus, train and tram, the concessionary Free Travel Pass that disabled people and many others have had since they were 60 years old, must be extended to everyone. Such a Fare-Free Public Transport system would apply at all times. Dunkirk and Luxembourg have been the most recent in introducing it.
This should be paid for by abandoning the £15 billion of mainly underground and overground tram extensions in the West Midlands to 2040. It should also be used to improve disabled access for all ages, and to finish the 120 Km Worcester to Derby mainline railway through Dudley, Sandwell, and Walsall (costing less than £200m).
This line would be finished with commuter and regional trains, freight and the nine stations where new settlements have been built since the line was closed in the 1960s."
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