Tuesday 28 June 2022

11 June 2022 to Suzanne Jeffery

Dear Suzanne

Immoral for the construction cost - HS2 over £200m/Km
                                                     Crossrail: £190m/Km
                                                     Metro Eastside extension: £133m/Km 
                                                     Metro Westside was £75m/Km last decade - this decade completed and now blocking bus services - with even worse if they ever put the trams on it!
                                                     2003 M6 Toll greenfield 6 lane motorway: £21m/Km
                                                     2015 Borders Railway rebuilt in the Southern Uplands: £7m/Km


Inefficient over spoiling heavy rail services by turning them into light rail tramlines and making for more changes and delays between, now, a third mode of transport, trams.  And, trams of 3 different kinds!
Incompetent in first destroying about 100 Kms of railway lines in the West Midlands and then, starting on the UK's only mothballed/safeguarded, principal mainline railway, "of national strategic significance".  And, in use over half its length but wasted in the middle half of 56 Kms where there are congested roads and the often gridlocked M5 and M6 in the Black Country.
Misguided Manchester Metrolink because it took the funds that, probably, could have upgraded the whole of the creaking, Victorian heavy rail services in northern England, in recent decades.
The misspent youth of today's up-and-coming generations.  Just as well we elders are still around to tell them how to do it!
And, where were/are our campaigning and upright trade unions in all of this, Suzanne?  Nowhere to be seen!  Guiltily silent and colluding with the authorities for 75 years, so far - for the whole of my lifetime, plus 1 year!  Or, did the unions oppose the tram destruction in the 1950s?

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