Dear Bob - and invitation to John Christophers in case he might like to join us on Tuesday evening.
70 YEARS OF CITY COUNCIL DESTRUCTION, AND NEGLIGENCE AND IDIOCY!
You seem to be the person who has come the closest to understand what I am getting at!!
You wrote, " ... the money diverted into upgrading the current regional public transport system, including the opening of new routes." Those new routes, I think should be your own local railway line through Kings Heath, mine through the Black Country and the Sutton Park line. The lines are already in place or safeguarded, in my case in the Black Country but are not fully used!
For decades I have been toiling away pointing out to the authorities that they first need to build a sensible unsustainable West Midlands where perfectly good transport infrastructure and buildings are NOT destroyed or mothballed/overlooked. And, where building sites are used to house the badly housed.
My futile attempts to kick up a fuss about the destruction of our railway lines in Brum and the Black Country has been ongoing since the 1990s. Yet, the UK's only remaining, principal mainline railway "of national strategic significance"
is still being broken up into heavy rail (HR), light rail Metro trams (LR), Very Light Rail (VLR) and, possibly ultra light rail Stourbridge Shuttle (ULR). Incredible!
When it comes to housing, we are still building well below best energy efficient standards and, overlooking building sites, like the massive 23,000 sq metres at Merry Hill Shopping Centre that has been wasted since the canal was straightened in the 1990s, I believe was the decade. 23,000 sq m designated for housing at High Plateau since, at least, 2020 as here:
On High Plateau, I'm suggesting solar powered, very high energy efficient apartments for the badly housed, including some of this year's record 40,000 small boat migrants. Any chance of WMCC going along with that?
BACK TO TRANSPORT:
Transport infrastructure destruction has been continuing for 70 years when it started with the total obliteration of the Midlands tram network in the 1950s and continues with the Dudley tram on the nationally important mainline railway to this very day!!
More here about the merry dance we've all been taken on:
FIRST, get a sensible, unsustainable, non-green transport and housing practice!!
Best wishes
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