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Thanks, Stuart. Yes, indeed. You are quite right about the reporting back. Simon emphasised joining a campaigning group. I was wanting more of our individual responsibility to act, in all good conscience.
It is over 100 towns and cities, worldwide that have FFPT, I believe. Dunkirk and Luxembourg in western Europe are our nearest. It's a carrot, not a stick like CAZ and, would end the woeful discrimination against the young and middle-aged.
MY SUMMARY for campaigning against Metro:
- Metro is a wealth flaunting, self-aggrandisement, vanity, 'solution looking for a problem' project. NOW BEING INDEPENDENTLY REVIEWED by the light rail industry after so much has gone so very wrong - for years!
- Construction is ten times more expensive per Km than the rebuilding of Scotland's Borders Railway in 2015. This alone should be Metro's death knell. Scandalous.
- Metro has destroyed two mainline railways, nearly a third; caused deaths from accidents and turned a Wolverhampton principal railway station into a conference and events centre.
- 11 different bus routes are now inconvenienced by being pushed out into narrow back streets on a diversion because priority is given to trams.
- Five Ways underpass is blocked by the two most colossal concrete crash barriers I have ever seen. Only the tram can use it.
- Every bus has to join the traffic jam and traffic lights on the Five Ways roundabout.
- Public transport is made worse. Simply for prestige and a cosmetic, all style over substance sham.
- It is unreliable and every tram has been out of service since 13 November for at least four weeks.
- Diverts attention and money from addressing the climate crisis by doing these things:
MY SUMMARY for being against Sprint -
- the bus that thinks its a tram on its own dedicated bus lane without the railway tracks;
- fewer stops than Platinum buses but they must be retained for all the stops that Sprint speeds past;
- grass, trees and front gardens get taken, so yet more concreting of Nature;
- prestigious, flash, new and absolutely irresistible to the car commuter who will gladly flock to the new, smart-looking Sprint bus, of course;
- yet more splashing out on unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions to speed us to merry extinction!
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