Dear Cllr Isobel
I was at the beginning of the Wellbeing Board meeting this morning but missed your good self. However, I did see you on the big screen in Rm 116 at 16 Summer Lane. I am an old codger who is well past his best but, I remain concerned for you much younger people.
I am a green lobbyist from the West Midlands Climate Coalition and wanted to give you your copy of our Nine Action Points that start with even you, Isobel in case you have not joined the world wide mass movement to build a safer, healthier and fairer world:
As a council leader over very many years in our region, you are a vital person to influence in our attempt to get you decision makers to make the more sensible financial decisions to build a more socially just, sustainable and much lower fossil fuel dependent society.
This is an email I sent you on 31 July 2018:
I sent you this on the 7 September 2018:
"Thanks so much, Isobel for your decency in replying.
"However, as very much one of our Midlands' VIPs and regional leaders, now that I have brought this scandal to your attention, I think you have a moral duty to personally follow it up and find out for yourself what is going so seriously wrong.
"If you now do nothing, you are implicated and are as guilty of negligence as your colleagues like Roger Lawrence, Bob Sleigh and Andy Street who should be doing something but, it seems, do not.
"Tim
"SENSIBLE THINKING?
2 or 3 fast regional trains every hour and nine new stations over the completed 120 Kms between Worcester and Derby
or, 6 to 10 "bus on rails" trams every hour and 17 tram stops over only 11 Kms to STOP the reinstatement of the railway "of national strategic significance."
"SMART POLITICIANS?
£343 m plus cost overruns to build the Black Country Tramline over 6.7 Kms that destroys the Black Country Railway over 56 Kms. All 56 Kms can get commuter/regional trains back for less than £200 m (2015 figure). Or, stupid politicians?
"SMART RAILWAYS?
Why CUT a 120 Kms principal, mainline railway through the congested West Midlands with a tramline in two halves, a railway test track and a trail of trees, Japanese knotweed and undergrowth, when absent trains on 56 Kms of track could have their trains and stations back, FOR LESS MONEY than using trams on only 6.7 Kms?
"Tim Weller Independent candidate for the 2020 Mayoral election"
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