Mayor of the West Midlands and chair of the WMCA Andy Street, said:
The Wednesbury to Brierley Hill Metro extension will be a game-changer for the Black Country as it will help to boost public transport whilst providing much-needed links to the existing rail and bus networks.
There are already links to the bus network with large bus stations at Dudley and at Merry Hill on the route of the tramway. And, a forgotten link to the nearby, half-used railway!
The existing bus route is to be duplicated by a tramway that also uses the Derby to Devon via Dudley principal mainline railway that gets destroyed in the process!!
All for half a billion pounds (£500 m) for only 10 Kms!!
Scotland rebuilt a railway of 50 Kms for only £350 m in September 2015.
The foolish authorities even built a link between the nearby mainline railway at the Waterfront and the bus station at Merry Hill. But, they forgot to extend it, only 400 metres further, from the Waterfront car park, to the principal mainline railway between Worcester and Derby - and, to finish the railway with passenger trains, too!
“An elevated monorail was officially opened at the Merry Hill Centre on June 1st 1991, costing £22,000,000 to build."
"The monorail was broken up in 1996 and sold to a shopping centre in Queensland, Australia." (Google search)
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