SNAPPY NAME WANTED - to rival 'predatory delay'!
Reading Alex Steffen's definition of predatory delay has made me come with my own definition for those who want multi-modal public transport at any cost. I'm thinking of HS2 and Midlands Metro. Metro is described as a "bus on rails" by the national tram promotion group at Transport and Combined Authority HQ. Improper influence brought to bear to get want they want? Corruption? Incestuous? Surely not!
It is public transport so it must be good.
Never mind that HS2 is the most expensive transport mode to construct and Metro is even more expensive than most Maglev train projects in China, Japan and S Korea.
Never mind that Metro One in 1999 took out Wolverhampton's second principal mainline railway station and the tracks either side. Never mind that it also took out of use 25% or, one platform out of four, at Snow Hill Station in Brum.
Never mind that buses and bikes can no longer use Five Ways underpass or Broad Street and both have a longer and slower journey on their permanent diversions.
Never mind that the Dudley and Sandwell Metro is now destroying the 120 Kms Worcester to Derby mainline railway. It is the 7th and very last of Dudley's railways that has Metro trams going on only 6.7 Kms of it!
MY NOT SO SNAPPY NAME? MISGUIDED BUT, OH-OOH! SO VERY WELL-INTENTIONED!
Any others? FRAUDULENT CLAIMS, LIES, SCAM!
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