40 years of emphasis on trams over trains and buses

I remain very concerned over the competence and commitment of the councillors and the transport experts who advise them, over recent decades (since 1981) of hundreds of millions of pounds in both price and in weight of deadly greenhouse gas emissions for simply replacing perfectly good commuter trains (and duplicating buses) with highly expensive, all style over substance trams.  23 Kms of trams with 18 Kms on a former mainline railway in 42 years of hard endeavour!!  This, when bus use ALWAYS languishes in the sidelines as a third class transport after cars and trams/trains.  Perfectly depicted by the Third World, poverty stricken looking, with a trickle of users, Kidderminster slum bus station next to a popular Tesco car park.