Please, can you help with this 11th-hour, last-ditch effort to save the UK's last, mothballed, half-used, mainline railway in the middle of England? This gives you a flavour of what its all about:
On Railfuture West Midlands website. You will find this:-
Longer-term goals
- Reinstating the Stourbridge - Dudley - Walsall - Lichfield line to relieve heavy congestion on the existing Black Country rail & road networks. SELF: But is it all too late?
- Completion of 'double tracking' between Coventry & Leamington Spa, creating additional local & Cross country capacity.
- Reconnect Ironbridge to the main line at Madeley, to cater for extensive new housing development.
- Electrification of lines through Birmingham Snow Hill.
- Reinstatement of direct Coventry - Leicester services, avoiding Nuneaton station.
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 by Metro:
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.
17 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
MISSION STATEMENT:
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.
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 only 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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