You're right Jonathon. But how can my one-man campaign against the destruction of the UK's last mainline railway "of national strategic significance" (18.3.2018) become creative and effective and many more than just good ol' me?!!
And even the ONLY public open space at Merry Hill Shopping Centre gets bulldozed for a 400 m double-track railway viaduct for the tram. That alone will be costing £50 million, at least out of the total cost of over £500 million for 10.7 Kms of tramline from Wednesbury to Brierley Hill.
Use the mainline railway for trams to Stourbridge from Dudley, if you must but then use electric buses from Round Oak tram stop to bring people into Merry Hill instead of "bus on rails" trams.
"You are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
TWO LIES STILL NOT WITHDRAWN BY TfWM/WMCA:
Light rail trams must be done first to get the proper heavy rail trains back, in due course. "LR investment provides the basis for restoring HR services at the appropriate time." Sept 2000 from Tom Magrath, Passenger Services Director.
Passive provision (Laura Shoaf, Chief Exec of WMCA)is being built in to allow double-running/track sharing between trams and freight trains. That simply and only means that the width of the track is the same for trams and trains.
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