Friday, 25 March 2022

TWO CONTROVERSIES ON DUDLEY CANALS

SAVE WHAT LITTLE NATURE THERE IS AT MERRY HILL


I am asking for my immorally expensive, planned Metro tram at Merry Hill to be moved from being next to the canal, for it to go ABOVE it on steel stilts, instead.  SEE BELOW.  Please use the addresses below if you would like the public open space saved - and our taxes, too!  There is still time for the destruction of the public open space to be cancelled and the tram tracks to be built above the canal, instead. 

I'm also asking for our council to finally put right something, after only 25 years, that took national government a full 40 years to put right in their case!!  SEE BELOW.
Dudley's address is dudleycouncilplus@dudley.gov.uk and their leaders' addresses: Cllr.Patrick.Harley@dudleymbc.org.uk   Kevin.OKeefe@dudley.gov.uk     Cllr.Qadar.Zada@dudleymbc.org.uk (leader of the Opposition)

And the three Customer Services, here:

Dishonourable and Dysfunctional Dudley MBC refuses to put right its own incompetence

TWO CANALS TAINTED BY DUDLEY'S LESS THAN MAGIC TOUCH!

Just as it took over 40 years to force HMG to discharge a £400 m "legitimate" debt to Iran, after only 25 years, Dudley MBC still has absolutely no intention to put right its own unbelievable failings in spending a quarter of a million pounds of public money in overseeing the work of Barhale Construction Services in executing the most perfectly incompetent and useless canal restoration in the history of the UK.

This was Dudley No 2 Canal, aka the Lapal Canal, in 1997 when a 400 metre section of the canal was supposedly 'restored' but never fully filled with water for fear of collapse of the canal embankment, in Leasowes Park.

Dudley Council is also involved in gladly destroying the one and only public open space at Merry Hill Shopping Centre with a 400 metre concrete viaduct right on top of the steep canal embankment, when it could go on steel stilts directly above the water of the canal.  And, probably, at less cost.

This is in addition to six Dudley railway lines obliterated and a seventh, a railway "of national strategic significance", well on its way to the unfortunate rail graveyard in the sky!

Earlier this year, a very modest improvement to fewer than ten stiles on public rights of way, by putting steps on them, cost over £9,000, I have been told.  Or, is it taking them years to spend the £9,000?

Dishonourable and Dysfunctional Dudley MBC refuses to put right its own incompetence

PHOTOS to be shocked or intrigued or to laugh over:

Half a billion pounds of Metro destroys the above half-finished 120 Kms Worcester to Derby railway and these trees, all for a stranded, 'shuttle' tramline on a former mainline railway that does not even connect with the two railway sections between Worcester and Derby, at either end.  It is needed for freight trains, anyway.  So what is the point of Metro?
Exactly where the mighty tram viaduct goes!

Tim Weller  28 Hunnington Cres  HALESOWEN  B63 3DJ
0791 380 4363

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