5 July 2019
It grieves me that railway managers and transport planners/experts failed to stop the running of homes, shops and offices on our railway lines since their very proper closure as loss-making in the 1950s and 60s. All of them are now needed to reduce road congestion and train overcrowding.
It grieves me that opportunities were lost to build additional tunnels to Grand Central when Westside was being redeveloped in the 80s and 90s.
Another lost opportunity when the Bull Ring Shopping Centre was being rebuilt in the 90s and 00s. The Eastside railway tunnels should have been built when the concrete Bull Ring Shopping Centre was demolished.
Stupidity when the free flowing, lower greenhouse gas emitting, Inner Ring Road was smashed and broken at Masshouse Circus and St Martin's Circus to make for all the traffic lights, one way streets and, thus, extra cocktail of poisonous gases with the unnecessary braking and accelerating of vehicles. It was done to break the concrete collar round the city centre. But the collar is now wide roads with traffic stopping and starting at traffic lights, just where people are walking and shopping!
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