Dear Suzanne
I hope to attend the Zoom meeting on Sunday and thanks so much for your work on our behalf.
Since the 1990s, I've been highlighting the folly and the sheer scale of the destruction wreaked on our railways by, not Beeching who always gets the blame, poor man but, by transport experts and every politician (and every trade union leader, by the way!) who all thought that the closed railways over the last seventy years meant that they must now be buried under concrete, brick and tarmac (or used as tramlines in Manchester and Brum) because they would never be needed again. Not even as cycle-walkways that I am also asking should be made fit for purpose, in the case of the UK's major commuter, business and leisure route, the 22 Kms Black Country Cycle-Walk Mudway.
Will you let me raise my concern over how the expansion of the tram networks in Greater Manchester and the West Midlands has coincided with the destruction of about 100 Kms of urban railway lines, both by the trams and with the construction of roads and buildings? As a result, we now have even worse road and, before Covid, railway congestion in the W Mids. Hence, many billions of pounds of greenhouse gases in the UK has been spent and emitted, unnecessarily on replacing buses and trains with trams to make public transport worse with yet more changes and delays between the different modes. This is not very green!
Best wishes
Tim
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