Cllr Carol Hyatt, City of Wolverhampton Council member on the WMCA’s transport delivery committee said: “Evidence tells us that a Transport Hub (for a number of different public transport modes - Tim) results in more people being able to use public transport more easily (with greater difficulty and delays from all the changes, Carol - Tim). I am proud that in Wolverhampton we have invested in our public transport creating a transport hub where train, bus and soon Metro (and very light rail trams, too and, possibly, even ultra light rail!) will all be available in the same place so people can go from one to the other with ease (instead of being able to stay on the one train between Worcester and Derby with NO changes between the one train and two or three kinds of trams - wot a joke!!). AND WOT A LIE!
You have turned a 120 Kms principal mainline railway "of national strategic significance" between Worcester and Derby into, at best eventually, a train-tram-train railway with more changes and delays between the trains and trams at Walsall and Stourbridge, even if you do keep the tram on the railway down to Stourbridge. All those greenhouse gas emissions to ruin our future could have been saved if only your party and council and your good self had finished the railway with the commuter and regional trains that had been so successful for 100 years!
The current WBHE, Phase 2 plan concretes over housing land, nature, public open space and my wonderful guerrilla garden at Merry Hill. Not very clever, Carol!
Bus services are no way good enough or popular enough and are starved of funding because the money goes to building High Scam 2, Metro and Sprint extensions. Go to Kiddi by bus, Carol and tell me what you think of their slum-looking, joke of a bus station! Together with a dreadful, 'coffin rest'-looking bus shelter nearby, it is quite a giggle!
Tim
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