Dear Donald, Colin and Steve
In 6 years as Mayor, Andy Street has not been responsible for seeing a single railway line or tramway opened. Not Pipers Row; not the 3 Kms from St Chads tram stop to Edgbaston Village tram stop that was started before he became Mayor in May 2017.
It took 18 years to open the first tramway in 1999 that was never connected to even the bus station let alone the railway station in Wolverhampton. Scandalous and incompetence!
Why has it has taken 42 years to get 23 Kms of tramway, 18 Kms of which were on a mainline railway that destroyed Wolves Low Level Station and a total of 4 or 5 Kms of railway line either side of it?
Why has Railfuture not sent a single email to the authorities in support of what I have been arguing should be done since about 1990? Namely, concentrate on rebuilding the closed and mothballed railway lines with TRAINS and STATIONS. The trams were a solution looking for a problem but still took priority in both staff time and in getting the money out of national government.
£100s million wasted on trying to get TRAMS on railway lines instead of TRAINS. Unbelievable!!
This is brilliant stuff from Peter Madeley. READ IT! All of you working together, regardless of political party and with officers. The planet is burning as Greta Thunberg said in 2018 and Sir David Attenborough, the same year gave these warnings: "the collapse of civilisations, the extinction of much of the natural world and time is running out".
From dozing rubber stamps to members CHECKING, CHALLENGING, QUESTIONING officers.
From talking shop committees to discussion, debate, votes to tell the officers what YOU want.
'Delayed delivery and broken promises' – Labour to consider move away from tram travel
It was Labour, initially, who was right behind the failed attempt, from the start in 1981, to rebuild the tram network of 200 Kms by year 2000, only 20 years after destroying it!! WITH THE ENTHUSIASM OF EVERY COUNCILLOR, of every party, except one Dudley Green Party cllr!
End the 70 years of destroying the tram network and then rebuilding it on the railway network.
END METRO EXTENSIONS AND CONCENTRATE INSTEAD ON GETTING BETTER BUSES AND PUTTING THE TRAINS/STATIONS BACK, where railway lines have survived your total destruction.
Best wishes for a better effort from you all - PLEASE! Tim
On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 10:57, Don Payne <donpayne@btinternet.com> wrote:
Dear Tim,
I think you are being a bit unfair. These things take some time in
planning - they can't all be achieved overnight. At present new stations
are under construction at Willenhall and Darlaston beyween Wolverhampton and Walsall, also three stations on the "Camp Hill" line in Birmingham at Moseley, Kings Heath and and Pineapple Road (formerly Hazelwell). For all of these a business case has to be made before work can commence.
Donald
On 25/07/2023 21:57, Tim Weller wrote:
Is this really true that when you have not reopened a single railway
line, let alone one station since Smethwick Galton Bridge in 1995 and
Walsall to Rugeley in 1998, you are now wanting yet another train
station? This one at Pendeford/Palmers Cross/Tettenhall? This makes
it the 6th station, at least, you are trying but failing to reopen.
A shocking record of good intentions but complete failure and
incompetence.
Bizarre priorities in wanting only Metro trams on two former mainline
railways.
Tim Weller
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