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Dear friends
Worcestershire CC is a non-constituent member of the WMCA but is sidelined, overlooked and neglected with its joke, slum of a disgraceful bus station at Kidderminster, with its nearby oddity of a Victorian, 'coffin-rest' like bus shelter.
In contrast, Brum and its Hagley Road, has 1,000 carbon sequestering trees and shrubs that are planned to be felled to bring in immoral Metro, super Sprint buses and, indeed, the existing Platinum buses must still remain to serve the parts that Metro and Sprint don't get to. Kidderminster does not even get Platinum!
PLEASE ACT! This must be our major transport campaign for this year and into the future. Does anyone agree with me?
Please respond. Best wishes.
Tim Weller 0791 380 4363
On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 at 08:08, Tim Weller <timweller1@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear friendsDuring our excellent talk on scams from the police at Halesowen Pensioners' meeting yesterday, I woke up to how High Scam 2, and ongoing extensions of Metro and Sprint are all scams. Let me explain:High Scam 2 between London and Manchester goes so fast that it can only drop off and pick up passengers at two airports, with only some trains stopping at Brum and Crewe. We have been sold the lie that it will increase capacity on the railway network and, therefore, more trains and services will be seen on the existing railway lines. Over a hundred billions pounds in price and in weight of dangerous greenhouse gas emissions are being spent to give us a choice of either flying through the air on a plane or, on land in an HS2 train. Why all that damage and destruction to benefit only the wealthy and plane flyers having the choice of train or plane?As regards Metro trams costing at least £15 billion (2020 figure) for 150 miles and eight lines by 2040 this gives us:Sprint buses are the super dooper buses that think they are trams, we are told. BUT,
- flash, smart, smooth trams, certainly but, even the nationwide tram promotion group insist it is a "bus on rails".
- The trams simply replace or duplicate buses that all need to be electric and which are already being phased in, anyway.
- Why yet more expense, yet more climate breakdown to put buses on rails on roads when tyres on roads are perfectly adequate?
- The idea is that you walk to the bus to take you to the train station. You get off at your destination station for the bus to take you to your final destination.
- On Hagley Road, Brum we will be seeing 1,000 trees and shrubs felled on the south, westbound side for the Metro extension to Bearwood. Nature is desperately needed to slow deteriorating life support systems from the escalating climate emergency.
INSTEAD
- Less than ten years ago, we were informed that, for £12 m, Sprint diesel buses were to be put down Hagley Road to Quinton on the border with Dudley borough.
- Therefore, you will still need the Platinum buses to take you on to Halesowen and Stourbridge.
- This means a change of transport mode and a delay in your journey.
- Plus, Metro trams, along with Sprint and the regular buses all on the two lanes of Hagley Road.
Use the money to give all non pensioners the free public transport that we have enjoyed for decades.Plus, the bus priority measures on dual carriageways to speed the bus and inconvenience the selfish, thoughtless car commuters who clog up the roads for bus, lorry and other essential business users who must use their vehicles.How can there be greater economic justice for the poor, who include pensioners, when hundreds of millions of pounds in both price and in weight of greenhouse gas emissions is being spent on these three major transport construction projects from the WMCA?Our transport planners at 16 Summer Lane do so love their big, flash, fancy engineering projects to keep them in work. But, they can all be redeployed into ourTim Weller - and could each of you please respond, this time? THANKS!PS bonus of 3 photos, 2 cartoons to add a little merriment to your day:
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