NOW IS OUR CHANCE to end the idiocy

Dear friends - Left Unity

This is what I mentioned near the end of our meeting last night.  Last month, I was told by a fellow pensioner at our Halesowen meeting that TfWM/WMCA was postponing the construction of the second half of the 10.7 Kms, £550 m tramline on mainly a railway "of national strategic significance".  The second half is still planned to run from Dudley town to Merry Hill but now is our chance to get it permanently stopped for housing and nature, instead.  Only public pressure can make the postponement permanent.

PLEASE SEND THIS (select, copy, paste as you wish or, just tell them what YOU want) TO: customerservices@wmca.org.uk

Put v low, finite fossil fuel apartments for those most badly housed (including those seeking refuge from war, famine and climate breakdown) on ALL of High Plateau at Merry Hill Shopping Centre.  Plan here:​

 WBHE plan for Merry Hill.jpeg

​This means permanently keeping Metro "bus on rails" trams off High Plateau.

Save nature at Merry Hill by permanently keeping the trams off the 400 m canal embankment with the planned £100m double track railway viaduct.

Let it be naturally rewilded with NO MORE MOWING to allow plants, shrubs and trees to sequester CO2 on the embankment, instead of the climate damaging concrete and steel viaduct to make our prospects even bleaker.

STOP £0.55 billion, 10.7 Kms, Metro trams destroying the UK's only mothballed, principal, mainline railway "of national strategic significance" in the heavily congested, densely populated Black Country.​

 Metro map with my notes.pdf

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THANKS, if you do write to tell them what you want!

Tim