Dear Ros - it is urgent that we all pull together on the top priorities for Dudley MBC because of these further alarming reports this morning:-
- 2020 was the third warmest UK year since 1884; all the years in the top 10 are since 2002
- Last year was one of the least snowy on record; any snow mainly affected upland and northern areas
- Spring 2020 was the UK’s sunniest on record, and sunnier than most UK summers.
- 2020 was the UK’s fifth wettest year; six of the 10 wettest years have been since 1998
When you met with Patrick Harley, did you and Marie have a set of prepared questions to put to him?
If so, what were they, please?
Did Metro and Sprint and the £1 billion regeneration of Dudley town centre come up in conversation?
If so, what was said?
Did he explain why he was destroying the Derby to Devon via Dudley principal mainline railway? What were his reasons? And why did he want a tram stop instead of the reinstated railway station that was so popular for 100 years? Especially, when he wants Dudley to become a city and Dudley is the biggest UK town, by population, without a railway station!
You wrote, "improvements to public transport to encourage people out of their cars". What are your reasons, Ros, Marie and Chris for supporting trams replacing buses and trains at the most enormous cost in accelerating climate catastrophe?
We have opened a Pandora's Box of troubles that will be impossible to put back. But we must not give up trying but much more urgently reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. We must immediately stop all work on HS2, Metro, Sprint and put the staff, instead to work on fitting PV, insulation and reusing water in every single building. Jobs only to feed us and to keep us in shelter and clothing and, well away from coming flood danger. Only an eco-socialist society can do this. Hence, I'm a member of Left Unity, as well as a life member of national FoE since the 80s.
We must stop turning nature into concrete, brick and tarmac by destroying railway lines (6 in Dudley alone and 7th on the way) and building unnecessarily, like moving Dudley Leisure Centre all of 1 Km to sit alongside Metro in Flood Street!!
We must regenerate agriculture, woodlands and hedges to bring biodiversity and maximum sequestration of CO2. I think the Hagley Road hedge regeneration and new planting was the right thing to do, it seems to me! I walk or cycle past it because it is near where I live.
Everything else, like Dudley town centre, must have retrenchment and not Patrick's kind of regeneration.
Sorry to make more work for you, Ros but I'm a worried Weller about the tough future my two baby granddaughters are facing. And, I'm guilty and sorry for my own contribution to it.
Please, join me on my cycle ride on the Black Country Cycle-Walk Mudway, on Sun 8 Aug at 3 pm from Fens Pool Avenue/A461/Stourbridge Road, to see the state of it now. We turn back whenever we want. After an hour might be enough. MAP BELOW.
Best wishes
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