NOT QUITE THE WAY TO BUILD A MORE SOCIALLY JUST AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY!
Dear Colin and Coventry friends - who must all stand up to Brum that gets its way in continuing to destroy the UK's last, supposedly safeguarded, 120 Kms Black Country Mainline railway between Worcester and Derby.
AND A REPLY, PLEASE FROM EITHER COLIN OR GEORGE (preferably both) WOULD BE WONDERFUL!
At a time of more people suffering poverty than we have probably seen for 70 years, our government of the people, for the people by the people, is splashing out on the most monumentally expensive High Scam 2; £15 billion for eight lines and 150 miles of trams replacing or duplicating buses as passenger numbers have fallen; and, Sprint buses going on routes already blessed with Platinum buses and trains and, next, trams planned to come out to Solihull from Brum city centre, too!
Just one extravagant transport project is well over half a billion pounds for 10.7 Kms of tramlines, with most of that on and breaking up the 120 Kms Black Country Railway "of national strategic significance" between Worcester and Derby.
Our truly sick, unsustainable society is letting the poor go to the wall as more of them become dependent on food banks and more have difficulty paying food and energy bills. It is immoral and foolish to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money on replacing buses and trains with light rail trams, very light rail trams and ultra light rail trams. Give the money to the poor or, at least, give them Fare-Free Public Transport (FFPT) that I've had for nearly 15 years rather than wasting it on destroying yet more of our urban railway network.
There are very much more responsible and socially just and obvious ways to get car commuters to leave their precious vehicles at home and commute by bus, train and tram. Such as that contained here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CGNnFpMczaJO53xi0vrSHvdJLmVv_1Uebr_nFh0PeT4/edit?usp=drive_web
High Scam 2 is a fraudulent project when the thing has to go so fast through little ol' England it can only stop, outside of London at two airport stations before terminating in Manchester. Only some trains will call at Curzon St and Crewe. Yet, the misleading, dishonest website makes one think that every other city will somehow benefit, too!
All the intercity stations like Coventry that will be bypassed by High Scam 2 will see no improvement and, quite likely, a poorer service with fewer intercity trains.
With best wishes
No comments:
Post a Comment