CLIMATE CHAMPION COUNCILLORS

THE PROBLEM:

Too much human impact/domination, too little from the other species that get wiped out. A foolishly out of kilter arrangement for imbalance and ultimate disaster for all life on earth.

Every councillor to be a climate champion to bring in our 9 point Climate Emergency Charter - from CANWM.

Convert themselves from climate hypocrites to climate champions by abandoning the £15 BILLION and 150 miles of bus conversion to "bus on rails" trams.

Climate champion councillors to draught-proof and insulate every council building. 

Climate champions to put PV on every council roof.

Councillor climate champions to stop the disgraceful discrimination against the young and middle-aged. SO BRING IN Fare-Free Public Transport (FFPT) and bus/business lanes on every dual carriageway to penalise thoughtless car computers who don't need their vehicle for their job.  They get traffic light priority on a proposed Hagley Road's 2 year experiment.

Climate Emergency champion councillors to free up road space for people who really do need their vehicle for their job.  So fine those who have not registered as bona fide essential vehicle users for their jobs but appear in bus/business nearside lanes.  Those who have not registered must go by FFPT.

Climate councillors if you all abandon a fourth demolition and rebuilding of Centenary Square.  The last, the third was £16 million and the third in twenty years.  Is that correct?  STOP the building, demolition, rebuilding cycle of waste and unnecessary destruction.

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My cartoon that needs the Telegraph's Matt-like skill to draw this:-

Councillors and transport officials peering down from a disused railway bridge upon a gridlocked motorway, scratching their heads & agonising about how to reduce congestion.

This refers to every tunnel, bridge and viaduct built over 120 Kms but 56 Kms in the middle are still without freight and passenger trains. Yet, it runs parallel to or, near to, traffic-choked main roads, M5 and M6!

'Ah! But you don't mention, Tim that trams must go on a total of 9 Kms', say the transport officials, as "Light rail investment provides the basis for restoring heavy rail services at the appropriate time."

However, the appropriate time has never come in 22 years.  And how eccentric and weird to think that a principal mainline railway "of national strategic significance" can only be finished with the rather vital freight and passenger trains and stations, by first putting 22 mph Metro trams and 17 tram stops on two nibble sized sections!!