Dear Helen - our wonderful, new broom to sweep clean and who is bristling with vigour and good ideas!
I'm so sorry to make more work for you, Helen - simply ask FoI to get to the bottom of this - but there are contradictions, discrepancies and confusion in what Andy is saying, below, compared with my record of the facts that I sent you a few days ago. Who is correct?
In addition, I don't seem to be getting answers from FoI. Could you chase them up, perhaps - please? My concerns are extremely serious because they are about competent governance. Hundreds of millions of pounds of public money are being misused, indeed wasted from obvious very strange and quite wrong priorities. All of that worsens the climate emergency that everyone blissfully ignores! Roughly, £1 = 1lb in weight of greenhouse gas emissions according to Sir Jonathon Porritt, as here:
ME: The more we spend, the more we burn fossil fuels, it seems to me. Have I got this right? SELF, 16 February 2019
PORRITT: “More or less right! … ”
"Just one caveat: as we decarbonise our grid, we’ll obviously be burning rather less of the reserves of remaining fossil fuels, and relying more on green electrons. But the rule of thumb still holds for the time being!" SIR JONATHON PORRITT, 17 Feb 2019Andy said "All three projects are full steam ahead" on 25 July 2023
(The three: University Station, Wolverhampton extension, WBHE even to Merry Hill)
On Radio WM, on Kath's 10 am Show, Andy said:
"You are not right in saying that they were suspended ... it is bad that Pipers Row extension is late but we are testing trams on that. It will open very soon now subject to the testing ... WBHE has definitely never been suspended. WBHE Phase 2 now has the funding for the tram from Dudley to Merry Hill, so construction will go ahead ... All three projects are full steam ahead."
And again, Andy said, "The money is there for the extension of the line through to Merry Hill."
Therefore, I'm right in saying that Merry Hill to Brierley Hill is suspended or, alternatively, WBHE is curtailed.
What is the cost you have budgeted for, to do WBHE Phase 2, Dudley to Merry Hill?
What is the budgeted cost of Wednesbury to Flood St, Dudley tram?
What is the cost, so far, of Parkhead Viaduct being strengthened? Was it included in the £385m for Wednesbury to Dudley tramline?
What has Network Rail contributed?
Why was a brand new University Station given top billing for money when it serves not a single home? I don't think the present station platforms were ever overcrowded in the rush hours because it only served the university and hospital. But, had a study been done that proves me wrong?
FROM:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/
Best wishes and so sorry to have to be a flippin' nuisance.
Tim
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