There are big differences between the Borders Railway and ours:
On the Borders Railway structures: “42 newly constructed and 95 in need of refurbishment”.
Nothing like this is required for the Black Country Main Line. All of these new structures were done for rural, depopulated southern Scotland. This was a huge amount of work but much less work is needed for OUR railway in our urban, densely populated Black Country.
For them, the line was not fully safeguarded, I have been told. Buildings had to be demolished. Ours is safeguarded and no buildings need to be demolished.
£133 m/K for the Eastside Metro extension in 2021; £7 m/K for Borders Railway in 2015. Scotland's train tracks will last but our tram tracks get replaced after 5 years. A scandal, a scam, a disgrace. Yet, no-one bats an eyelid!
Every £1 spent = more greenhouse gases = escalating climate catastrophe = ecocide. And that is not funny.
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