Dear Tim
Why do you fully support the spending of public money of over half a billion pounds to build the 10.7 Kms Dudley Tram when it destroys the UK's last principal, mainline railway "of national strategic significance"?
And, destroys the only public open space at Merry Hill for a 400 m double-track, concrete, railway viaduct alongside Dudley No 1 Canal?
And destroys the nearest thing that Merry Hill has to a nature site?
Why not reinstate the monorail but, this time, link it to the tramline at Round Oak?
FROM WIKIPEDIA: "There were to be five stations, with the system extending over the canal and terminating close to the site of the former Round Oak railway station where an interchange with a West Midlands Metro extension was proposed. However, only the first four stations were completed; Waterfront East, Central Station, Times Square and Boulevard; with Waterfront West planned as a future development.[18"
"West Midlands Metro Line Two[edit]
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) will open a new line of the West Midlands Metro from Wednesbury to Brierley Hill, with a new stop at Merry Hill, planned to open in 2023. The line was first planned in 1986 and was expected to be built during the 1990s, but funding and planning difficulties resulted in a 30-year delay to this project becoming a reality.[29]"
FROM:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Did the Richardson twins abandon the monorail link to the Metro tramline when they found that Centro/TfWM were not delivering the Metro extension from Wednesbury?
Were they let down by the authorities? Did they go ahead expecting the tram/monorail interchange at Round Oak?
Were free enterprise and entrepreneurship failed by the dead hand of council bureaucracy and paralysis?
TO:
Lee and Martyn Richardson 100 Dudley Road East, Oldbury, West Midlands, B69 3DY
PLEASE REPLY, TIM - and explain why you are right and I am wrong!
Tim
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