THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS, SCANDALOUS THAT LIBDEM, NORMAN BAKER MP, ALLOWED!

This is no exaggeration:-

The original objective of the business plans and the Transport Works Act Order were to give us a first-class public transport system. They have achieved 70 years of wiping off the face of the earth the entire tram network, followed by about 100 Kms of the Black Country and Brum railway lines.

The 1990s saw Moor St to Smethwick Galton Bridge railway and Walsall to Rugeley railway both reopened.  But no more trains and stations reinstated since 1998.  Only 23 Kms of tramline has been achieved between 1999 and 2023. 19 Kms of the 23 on a mainline railway that also destroyed a mainline station, Low Level, plus 3.5 Kms of railway lines either side of it.

25% of Snow Hill station also remains wasted, unused because the trams bypass it and the trains can never again return to platform 4.  Yet, our gormless government (Transport Minister, Norman Baker MP) gave the money for trams to connect Snow Hill station to grandiose Grand Central station.  Baker was deceived/lied to by Centro (now WMCA's Transport for West Midlands).  Like very nearly all politicians, he never checked, challenged, or questioned the supposed transport experts - just gayly and gladly signed it off with the stroke of a pen!!

Inclusive and tolerant Andy Street, has overseen this debacle over the last 6 years and wants more of the same with his multi-modal, mixed-up, mish-mash of:-

 

HS (High Speed);

HR (Heavy Rail);

LR (Light Rail) trams, like Metro of 8 lines, 150 miles and 380 tram stops by 2040 for £15 BILLION!;

V (very) LR trams, as we have on the site of the destroyed 100-year-old and popular Dudley Mainline station at the foot of Castle Hill;

U (Ultra) LR trams like Stourbridge Shuttle, to also go on our railway "of national strategic significance"!!;

Sprint buses;

regular buses -

making for a whole host of public transport modes. Astonishingly useless performance by our Top People on Very Big Salaries.