Dear Richard
You must attack Andy over his idiocy in putting average speed 15 mph Metro trams on the Derby, Dudley, Devon principal, mainline railway "of national strategic significance".
This, on two nibble sized sections totalling 6.7 Kms out of the available 56 Kms between Burton on Trent and Stourbridge Jct.
The 56 Kms of track bed, with bridges and underpasses remains ready to be finished with TRAINS and stations.
On the 25 July on Radio WM, Andy said this had been checked out with Network Rail but an FoI request was never forthcoming to confirm this. Although Network Rail has always wanted the trams and not the trains. Astonishing!
There is a black hole of £750 m in Birmingham City Council's finances but this Council has been the leading council of seven in working so fruitlessly, since 1981, in spending £100s millions in FAILING to get their 200 Kms of tramline by the year 2000!!
To date, they have precisely 23 Kms in 42 years of very expensive endeavour. A shockingly bad track record.
Now, Andy, since January 2000, wants 150 miles of tramway by 2040!
Andy said on 25 July on Radio WM that Birmingham "has to be held accountable for dealing with it" (the massive financial scandal). But his scandal is very much worse!
And, doubly reprehensible by us having to add the irrefutable fact of incompetence in putting TRAMS on a SECOND mainline railway instead of TRAINS!!
The first was Snow Hill RAILWAY Station to the edge of Wolverhampton City centre - not even to the bus station let alone the railway station, like we had with TRAINS for a hundred years.
That idiocy is now being repeated with Burton on Trent to Bristol, via Brierley Hill with TRAMS and, at the most enormous expense, too! £650 m for 10.7 Kms, apparently. The first half may be over £400 m when finally opened next year.
Grand Central Station was £750 m
Please put a stop to the incompetence and idiocy, Richard.
Best wishes for getting elected - if you do stop the madness.
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