Disintegrated Transport and Foolish Transport

Dear Ian

You top people never consulted with the public.  You denied yourselves a vote in every one of the seven council chambers before

• destroying urban railway lines;
• converting some closed railway lines to tramways, as light rail;
• running homes, shops, offices down them instead of, so 19th century, railway trains;
• in Dudley, turning 2 Kms into a Very Light Rail test track on the UK's last but still existing principal, mainline railway;
• turning two more nibble sized sections on Derby, Dudley, Devon principal mainline into a light rail tramway;
• permanently closed a major vehicle and bus underpass for a tramway at Brum Five Ways;
• permanently closed Broad Street to buses and bikes - for trams, only;
• turned roads and railways into HR, LR, VLR and now, possibly, ULR (ultra-light rail) on part of the 120 Kms Black Country Railway!

This is Disintegrated Transport and Foolish Transport! 

On Sun, 19 Sept 2021 at 10:22, Ian Shires <shiresi2012@gmail.com> wrote:

There is nothing wrong with the concept of an integrated public transport system. The issue is how it's promoted and consulted upon and that is a product of the current Local Government system which has evolved out of the 2000 Act and left us with a top down process that.lacks true devolution and transparency leading to an ill informed general public.​  Very ill-informed councillors and MPs, in fact who don't seem to care. (Tim Weller).​

On Sat, 18 Sept 2021 at 09:04, Tim Weller <timweller1@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, David.  You are right!  This is is absurd, scandalous and immoral spending for "bus on rails" trams, First Class Sprint buses, Second Class Platinum buses all on Hagley Road, with cars, trucks, vans and lorries!  The authorities are escalating us to catastrophe with greenhouse gases led ecocide.

Never any consultation or the slightest whisper of even giving a nod towards following the correct democratic procedure for councillors to discuss, debate and vote on all this wasteful, stupid expenditure of taxpayers' money.

Derby to Devon via Dudley principal mainline railway continues to get destroyed with two further nibble sized sections being converted to "bus on rails" tramway!  Incompetent idiocy is no exaggeration.

Tim Weller

On Fri, 17 Sept 2021 at 21:25, David G wrote:

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/four-new-tram-routes-birmingham-21592574

Yet they are already planning a Sprint bus down hagley Road? Will they have both?

No consultation about any of these plans that I am aware of? Undemocratic!!

David