Multi-choice answers for this Comic Quiz

WE ALL SIT IN TRAFFIC JAMS next to or near to, an unused railway “of national strategic significance” because of bizarre spending like this:

Q1 How do you deal with the daily crawl into work on Hagley Road?

By carry on with business as usual?

OR

by clear felling 1,000 trees and shrubs on the south side of Hagley Road to the Kings Head to make way for a tramline?

OR

a bus and business lane to discourage car commuting and free up road space for essential vehicles like buses and work buses?

Q2  Is the still unfinished University railway station so gi-normous because WMCA wants it to compete with the impressive, new, big buildings on either side, at the QEH and the University?

OR,

Is it to make up for the five stations STILL not built on two wasted railway lines? One is no longer reserved for trams but, is now for commuter trains and stations?

OR,

Is it irresponsible spending?

Q3  Does their "Light rail provision provides the basis for restoring heavy rail services at the appropriate time",

mean that only trams running on 6 Kms of the missing 56 Kms will allow the commuter and regional trains, plus freight, to return on all 120 Kms?

OR,

that they believe 22mph average speed trams are the most sensible transport mode to finish a former 100-year-old successful mainline between Worcester, the Black Country and Derby?

OR,

this is complete gobbledegook and they don't have a clue how to run transport?

Q4   Will this UK's last principal, mainline railway "of national strategic significance" be finally finished in its middle unused section?

Once they’ve put the Dudley Tram on its two nibble-sized sections, totalling 6.7 Kms?

OR,

the magic "passive provision" is finally built in to the tram line?

OR,

TfWM/WMCA don't have a clue what to do?

Q5  Does TfWM believe that their bosses' "passive provision" means:

that their tram track will be the same width to take both trams and trains?

OR,

that they will rebuild the former Oxford, Worcester, Black Country, Derby line to allow trams in the daytime and freight trains at night?

OR,

they are so befuddled and bewildered they are all over the place?

Q6  Why has Midlands Connect ignored the half-finished 120 Kms Black Country Railway?

They are so concentrated on new ideas and schemes, they can't be bothered with the ready-built, former principal mainline railway in the Black Country and south Staffs, so let it go for trams and a cycle-walkway?

OR,

Road building for more connectivity is their top priority, anyway?

OR,

They don't have the guts to challenge the idiocy of 40 years of hard endeavour in turning two former mainline railways into tramways?

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