"VLR is much cheaper."

"VLR is much cheaper."

Yes, indeed.  Very much cheaper but we are now having the break up of public transport into:

• Very Heavy Rail (VHR), High Speed train on its dedicated tracks to connect only four cities and two airports - for your 1st class VIP passenger;
• regular Heavy Rail (HR) train for your 2nd class riff-raff passenger (me) on intercity, regional and commuter trains;
• Light Rail (LR) Metro tram;
• Very Light Rail (VLR) tram test track (on the Derby, Dudley, Devon mainline);
• Ultra-Light Rail (ULR) tram (Stourbridge Shuttle.  Proposed extension to connect with VLR at Brierley Hill on the Derby, Dudley, Devon railway.).
• 1st class Sprint buses.
• 2nd class Platinum buses.
• Hydrogen fossil fuel buses (so what's the point?  Only cleaner air, of course.  But, why not stick to electric buses from more and more renewables as they roll out?)

I feel this is all unnecessary expenditure of the Earth's scarce resources and of yet more totally unnecessary deadly greenhouse gas emissions.

Everything with rail in the name means more steel, more cement, more finite minerals/resources exhausted, more deadly greenhouse gases to change the chemical composition of the atmosphere.  This is all good for economic growth but not good for life support systems or for the bleak prospects in store for us humans!