Buses and trams will squeeze along together in the tunnel and narrowed Broad Street

PHOTO EVIDENCE, BELOW (taken in April 2021 but crash barriers still there on Sun 14 Nov '21)

This is yet more failed and incompetent government on a grand and greedy scale with greenhouse gas (GHG) spewing machines having built the concrete barriers and now more GHG spewing machines to remove them, to allow the buses back!  What hypocrisy to declare a climate emergency and then do this!!

This is on top of another cock up with our Derby to Devon principal mainline railway, in Dudley and Sandwell, being used for Light Rail trams and a Very Light Rail test track, with the possibility of Ultra Light Rail on another section!  What a joke.

On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 17:41, Tim Weller <timweller1@gmail.com> wrote:

Have just seen this in my inbox.  The majority of buses will return to Broad St and the underpass.  I'm completely wrong, I'm glad to say.  But we'll see how it all works in the new year!

 

BACKGROUND (yesterday morning I wrote this):

Mischievous misinformation that TfWM/WMCA are putting it about that some buses will return to Broad Street even though the tram stop platforms are built out into the middle of the road to meet the railway tracks.  And we have the most colossal concrete crash barriers I have ever seen, in all my life, in the Five Ways underpass.  Now to be turned into dust by yet more greenhouse gas spewing machines to allow some buses back!

I made an official complaint, as a member of Halesowen Pensioners, whose Secretary was told that buses would return.  This is a very serious matter of misleading information to members of the public.  Quite apart, from the corrupt expenditure of £75 m per Km for 2 Kms of immoral, wealth flaunting, Metro.  It hat has now given a further reason for car commuters NOT to transfer to bus/train/tram commuting.  This makes it even more urgent that TfWM/WMCA introduce Fare-Free Public Transport (FFPT) to bribe car commuters to leave their cars at home, if they really cannot work from home.

The new north-south railway in Scotland was £7 m/Km to rebuild when it opened six years ago.  The tram is ten times per Km more expensive to construct than rebuilding a railway!!