24 March 2021
Dear Paul
Thanks for your last email.
While I remain a declared candidate, could you please ask Mike Waters to put in writing what he was saying last week about Tallinn operating FFPT for every passenger being completely different from the position we find ourselves in, here in the W Midlands. I need to hear again - and consider - the points he was making, please.
Could you please ask Shingadia to give me the average distance between each bus stop on the Sprint route and the average distance for the regular bus services on that same route. Plus frequency of the two services on that Walsall to Brum to Solihull route.
Does this mean that some passengers will have to walk further from home and will need to examine the route to find which of the two different buses they should walk to, to find the best bus for them?
Is it simpler and cheaper to keep to the regular buses but to gradually make them as great, glitzy and glamorous as Sprint buses?
How do you decide when to upgrade bus routes to a Metro "bus on rails" tram and when to upgrade to Sprint?
Could the money, instead go to fund the proposed regional FFPT extension to the remainder of the population?
Can you use CAZ money to fund FFPT?
Would FFPT provide better value for money than Sprint?
Does Sprint make for a two-level, two-class bus provision?
Does the rolling out of Ultra Light Rail (Pre Metro Operations), Very Light Rail and Light Rail Metro, complicate the public transport journey with more changes, leading to more delays, between the different modes?
It seems that the Covid, Climate, Ecological, Nature crisis is here to stay into the foreseeable future. Therefore, do Mike, Shingadia and Adam think that anything should change in the light of those realities and, of serious shortages of oil and all kinds of gas by the end of the century?
Do the three men accept my thought, here?:
It is the business of all of us to curtail our activities to minimise finite fossil fuel use and the resulting, deadly greenhouse gas emissions. It isn't fair to live it up today when we know there will be shortages tomorrow AND a most uncomfortable existence from climate breakdown.
Do they accept my conclusion?:
Spending = more greenhouse gas emissions = deepening climate crisis = THE END.
Could you please ask the two Co-Chairs of the YCA, what actions they are suggesting when they wrote (actually Chris Burden in the Afterword of their 'Community Recovery Prospectus'):
"... we call on our leaders to be ambitious in delivering not only growth but a more radical change that reflects the urgency of our situations." What radical change exactly?
and,
"With each passing day of inaction, there is less of a future left to fight for." What action does YCA want, specifically?
Many thanks, Paul
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