Wednesday 7 April 2021

Why Metro and Sprint make everything worse!

I believe we have to prioritise fighting those projects that do the most damage to the  Climate, Ecological, Resource, Nature crises/emergency.  Those are the projects that cost the most money in finite resources exhausted and also make the most contribution to the runaway greenhouse effect.  My thinking is here:

Spending = finite fossil fuels burnt = greenhouse gases emitted = deepening climate emergency = THE END.

Therefore, the colossal expense in the expansion of Metro and Sprint both make the climate emergency, Nature crisis worse, as I have explained above and, public transport worse in Stourbridge and everyone from the West along Hagley Road.   My reasons for writing a worse public transport for Stourbridge are here:
  1. Hundreds of millions of pounds of greenhouse gases are going to duplicate or replace buses and trains with Metro when what is needed are regular or normal commuter and regional trains on the principal, mainline railway from Stourbridge to Burton on Trent via Dudley, Walsall and Lichfield; and
  2. existing buses, trains and trams simply need to be made fareless to end the discrimination against the young and middle-aged who, alone don't have fareless travel; and, 
  3. electric buses on roads direct are greener, rather than Metro "bus on rails" trams going on railway lines on roads.
  4. The railway lines on roads are made of steel that causes very large quantities of greenhouse gases to be emitted in the making of steel.
  5. With Sprint coming, Stourbridge remains isolated from Brum city centre because it terminates at Halesowen.
  6. With Metro coming, Stourbridge remains isolated from Dudley and Merry Hill because the tram stops at Cottage Street, Brierley Hill.
  7. With the tram terminating at Edgbaston village tram stop on Hagley road, bus passengers from Stourbridge and the west have an additional delay to their journey because you either have to change for the tram or, have a longer journey by bus, all round the Wrekin via the Arena and narrow roads choked with traffic and parked cars!

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