GLORIOUS ENGLISH ECCENTRICITY: the UK's only mothballed, easily reinstated, ready made but they forgot the trains and stations, mainline railway!
WHICH IS MORE SENSIBLE THINKING?
2 or 3 fast regional trains every hour and nine new stations to complete the 120 Kms between Worcester and Derby; OR: 6 to 10 "bus on rails" trams every hour and 17 tram stops over only 11 Kms to STOP the reinstatement of the railway "of national strategic significance."
SMART POLITICIANS?
£449 m plus cost overruns to build the Black Country Tramline over 6.7 Kms that destroys the Black Country Railway over 56 Kms. All 56 Kms can get commuter/regional trains back for less than £200 m (2015 figure). Or, stupid politicians?
SMART RAILWAYS?
Why CUT a 120 Kms principal, mainline railway through the congested West Midlands with a tramline in two halves, a railway test track and a trail of trees, Japanese knotweed and undergrowth, when absent trains on 56 Kms of track could have their trains and stations back, FOR LESS MONEY than using trams on only 6.7 Kms?
Tim Weller Independent candidate for the 2021 Mayoral election (and 2024!) for a more sensible, cost effective and easier ways to reduce congestion and pollution. Fareless, electric buses for ALL; not for the few, like me! To free up road space for essential users. Paid for by abandoning extensions for High Scam 2 (£100 billion), Metro (£15 billion to 2040 from 2020), Sprint (£1 billion to run alongside regular buses and trains between Walsall, Brum, Solihull).
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