23 Kms in 42 years for £hundreds of millions of public money is scandalous

Centro/TfWM/WMCA were to put their first tramline from Birmingham city centre to the airport in the 1980s.  The new one is 1.7 Kms and is costing £227 m - a figure from the last decade.  £71m/Km

When they hit opposition from the MP, Terry Davis and the residents incensed that their homes were to be demolished to make way for the tram, that route was abandoned and the former mainline railway from Snow Hill to Wolverhampton Low Level station was chosen.  Except it fell short of Low Level and even the Wolves bus station.  No integration, no connectivity but only idiocy and incompetence.

5 years of actual work on the ground for only 700 metres and £50 million and it is still not open in July 2023.  More details here:

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/transport/2022/07/17/the-other-west-midlands-metro-tram-extension-projects-as-new-birmingham-stops-open/

Low Level station is now a conference and events centre.