"The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) Board has today asked Transport for West Midlands to conduct an independent review into the WMCA’s oversight of the region’s metro services.
"The review, to be carried out by an industry expert, will look into the way Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) manages the delivery of new extensions and operation of metro services through a wholly-owned company.
"This is to ensure TfWM, which is part of the WMCA, has the right structures in place to hold both metro delivery and operations to account."
I think, to be fair on us all, for sceptical and disappointed observers like me and, for the most ardent supporters, we should be able to get an all-rounded view on the UK light rail news. Both good and bad.
I am also concerned about you all sharing the same building, at 16 Summer Lane. This brings improper influence by vested interests = collusion = corrupt practice.
MY OBSERVATIONS:
- Manchester's Metrolink is very successful. Only because they diverted many hundreds of millions of pounds from modernising and upgrading their railway network in northern England, into using that money for replacing trains and buses with trams!
- Brum is doing exactly the same in giving top priority to trams instead of trains, to be followed by Bristol and Leeds that want a tram network, too.
- You ain't a proper city unless you have trams. This is immature and deluded thinking.
- 50 Kms Borders Railway through the Scottish Uplands rebuilt at £7 m/Km in 2015 when reopened;
- 2 Kms Brum's Westside trams are blocking buses using the direct, fast route into the city centre at £75 m/Km for construction. Ten times more than rebuilding the railway. This is scandalous!
- You are destroying Dudley's seventh railway - the mainline railway from Worcester to Derby via Dudley.
- 56 Kms of double track exist but are wasted from Stourbridge Jct to Burton on Trent.
- 6.7 Kms, on two nibble sized sections get the LR tram, along with the VLR test track through the Dudley Castle Hill tunnel and a possible ULR extension from Stourbridge Jct to meet the LR tram at Brierley Hill.
- Yet, Andy Street, in an email to me, wrote that he wants this kind of "multi-modal transport".
- In fact, it breaks up a principal, mainline railway between Derby and Devon that could take freight off both roads and the Kings Norton to Moseley to Grand Central railway that is very slowly being returned to passenger trains instead of Metro trams.
- That means freight is needed to be put on the railway that 16 Summer Lane is breaking up into HR, LR, VLR and ULR.
- It results in far greater complications for our railway authorities to either go without freight trains being extended on this line or, freight being used only at night with three different kinds of trams at daytime.
- It is more sensible and simpler to abandon converting railway lines into tramlines. Therefore, NOT to follow Manchester's foolish decision that has resulted in such a very poor northern England railway provision.
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