Saturday 28 November 2020

 26 November 2020 from WMCA:

"The single biggest sum of money will come through the five-year intra-city transport settlement, which will see an estimated £800m come to the West Midlands to be spent on public transport projects.

"This is the single largest devolved pot of money the region will have received since the formation of the WMCA. Critically the Government has announced a start date of 2022 for the fund, allowing Transport for West Midlands to work closely with councils to start planning and allocating funding."

MY COMMENT

No democratic mandate for Metro trams or Sprint.  Regional govt by decree, not democracy is unacceptable and hypocritical, in my opinion.  The problem is that councillors have always felt that transport matters are a 16 Summer Lane matter, so take very little interest.  Cllrs on Transport Delivery Committee are expected to deliver - never authorise what the professional officers want!

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