Always cars and trams loved but never buses

Dear Fran and Norman

Do you recall that you were the UK government, nationally with the Conservatives, from 2010 to 2015?  Your very own LibDem member and MP, Norman Baker was the Transport Minister who gave the rather large funding for the tram in Brum centre that was supposed to have linked Snow Hill station with Grand Central station.  In fact, from the outset, we all knew it was bound to bypass Snow Hill station, a terminal, hit the buffers, station. The Bull Street tram stop is now the official tram stop for Snow Hill station - a walk of 300 metres back to platform 4 that the tram was using from 1999, at the station instead of boring trains to Wolverhampton.  We were all lied to and your LibDem Norman was deceived into authorising it.  Fran, Did you approach him to stop that misspending and for it to go, instead for a proper, magnificent Kidderminster Bus Station worthy of the town and for Fare-Free Public Transport for Everyone to justify a fine new bus shelter of a station?  Your Norman certainly had the money then.

It does seem that you top quality Kiddi politicians love cars (and trams) more than buses and have fully supported the many billions going for a High Speed railway network in the UK since 2010 with your LibDem Coalition Agreement with the Conservatives.

"In pursuit of the (LibDem) parties' policies on creation of "a low carbon and eco-friendly economy", a range of measures would be adopted.  In transport, a high speed rail network would be established."  Wikipedia

This, on top of fully supporting the totally unnecessary 200 Kms of Metro trams in the West Mids that was to be built by 2000 - 23 years ago but nowhere near achieved, even now.  It is now to be 150 miles by 2040, 8 lines, 380 tram stops all for £15 BILLION.  Again, fully supported by our LibDem friends.  £1.3 BILLION going into tram extensions, right now.

Therefore, dear Fran, how do you justify all that massive expenditure over the decades when your very own Kiddi bus shelter of a bus station, quite apart from bus use, have all been in a shameful state over all that time?

Do you think you might need to address your weird and wonderful priorities in order to get bus use and train travel as excellent as at least the average on the mainland of Europe?  Or, are you LibDems no longer good Europeans?

Best wishes

Tim    (Weller - from heavenly Halesowen with our very high tech bus station with its automatic sliding doors)