At a time of multiple crises over climate, ecology, nature, housing, cost of living, inflation, resources and, now the funding of our surrogate war on Russia over their invasion of Ukraine, it is essential we end the folly of worsening all these problems with foolish and unnecessary expenditure.
May I please meet with you at the Copthorne Hotel, Level Street, Brierley Hill to show you our Dudley No 1 Canal embankment that is planned to be destroyed by a 400 metre concrete and steel viaduct for the 10.7 Kms WBHE? I can make any time and any day, such is the importance of the site being protected.
I am asking:
End the £15 BILLION (Jan 2020 figure) expansion of Metro to replace some buses and trains in our region.
End the Dudley Tram arriving at Merry Hill that destroys the Dudley No 1 Canal embankment public open space and my landscape enhancement scheme. Even more importantly, the High Plateau must ALL be used for low energy, housing apartments and Metro must be kept off it. This can be done by running the trams down the Black Country Railway "of national strategic significance" all the way to Stourbridge Jct with tram stops at Waterfront (electric buses to Merry Hill), Brierley Hill and Withymoor.
Even after 40 years of working on the Metro project, it is still not too late to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to level up the poor by levelling down the rich Metro "bus on rails" tram provision.
Please make a site visit to meet me and for me to hear your views over my concern: to stop a small part of Dudley and nature at Merry Hill being buried under concrete, brick and tarmac.
Please, Linda save £100 m out of the well over £500 m for the WBHE by keeping the Dudley Tram on the mainline railway to Stourbridge.
Best wishes
Tim
PS - my attempt at fun funny and funny peculiar:
rom W Mids Climate Coalition
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