Dear Mel
Please check this out:
I thought the whole idea, Waseem is NOT to spend, spend, spend as if there is no tomorrow but, to reduce our consumption of everything, to leave something for future generations to inherit.
You said at Carrs Lane the other Sunday that you wanted mass transit built to make public transport the best it could possibly be. Or, words to that effect. That means Andy Street's £15 billion to 2040 for underground and overground trams over 150 miles, 8 additional lines and 380 tram stops to duplicate/replace some buses and trains in the W Midlands.
Spending means yet more fossil fuel burning and more greenhouse gases to exacerbate the climate emergency. The ongoing Metro "bus on rails" tram project is a very BIG spender indeed. Especially, when all it does is duplicate or replace buses and trains and, to escalate the runaway greenhouse effect.
SUGGESTIONS:
Where there is a dual carriageway, electric buses on a dedicated bus lane with traffic lights switching to green as buses approach? All other vehicles are confined to the outside lane.
Electric taxis and electric cars to use the nearside lane outside the rush hour?
Work bus to collect employees and then take them home at the end of the day?
Compulsory workplace parking levy to deter motorists - as in Nottingham?
Most car parking removed within the Clean Air Zone?
Don't destroy the remaining, last half of the once free-flowing, low pollution, inner ring road, A38.
Minimise our fossil fuel use and all consumption to act responsibly, effectively and logically over the Covid, climate, nature, ecological emergency.
Best wishes
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