Dear Laura, Linda and Deborah - and, copied to Anne Shaw (who leads from the front I have noticed and gets a big tick from me) and bcc'd to other key players who might share my concerns.
I would like a response, please from Laura on behalf of you very top women who might be able to do better than the men. Apart from Johnson and Jack, below!
On Wednesday 7 Sept at 0710 hrs on the Radio 4 'Today' programme, I heard Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, say:
"The reason gas prices are so high is because there is less gas around. If the world doesn't use less gas over the next year, we are going to run out."
"The entire economy is at risk here", said the BBC Business Editor, Simon Jack, later the same day on the 'Jeremy Vine Show'.
I believe what follows is basic ecology/economics. For me, HS2, Metro, Sprint are symptomatic and the reality of the fact that we are living infinitely on a finite planet and unnaturally on a natural planet. Living unsustainably. Somewhat dangerous and foolish! All three transport projects are self-indulgent and greedy at a time when the nation is even more awash in debt. We need to tighten our belts and not splash out on wasteful, extravagant and totally unnecessary projects. We insist on business as usual, with not even a nod in the direction of the multiple crises - climate, energy, inflation, cost of living and, funding of the Ukraine War amongst others - confronting the nation and regions.
I have tried to make this accurate but light-hearted, in the spirit of British pompous pricking and satire:
A REQUEST
With Metro WBHE Phase 2, you are putting the "bus on rails" trams on the UK's very last, ready built but unused railway "of national strategic significance".
You have now done so at the Wednesbury end. As you are keeping the sedate trams on the Phase 2 section of another 2 Kms of this nationally important railway, perhaps now keep it on the same railway to allow it to connect to the national railway network at Stourbridge Jct. In this way, at Merry Hill, you:
- save my magnificent guerrilla garden from being wiped out;
- save the only public open space at Merry Hill;
- save nature - of which we are part and depend on for our very existence;
- save the view of five lovely hills from the canal towpath and from the boats on the high canal embankment; and
- save all the 10,000 sq metres of land designated for housing - after some decades still available for very low cost energy apartments for the poor.
Tim (Weller, 0791 380 4363)
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