Andy is being disengenuous, to put it mildly!

Dear Helen and Sarah

FINE WORDS, in blue, BUT EMPTY, VACUOUS, MISLEADING NONSENSE.  This is simply not good enough, Helen:-

"Since the first strategy was published five years ago, we’ve made tangible (tiny) progress, drawing in more than £200 million in funding for new and redeveloped stations"  Andy Street.  Self: Only 7 tram stops (NOT stations) have ever been delivered, by Andy, my friend - since 1999!  Your wrong, stupid priority.  All 6 stations STILL not delivered!  And Tettenhall station, due for re-opening, is now a cafe on the UK's august, one and only, 25 Kms Black Country Cycle-Walk Mudway and can never have trains or even your beloved TRAMS back.  Yet, Tettenhall station is another to be reopened according to your incompetent officers and members of the West Midlands Comedy Authority!!

BLUE QUOTE FROM    https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/plans-long-term-rail-improvements-27648499?utm_source=businesslive_newsletter&utm_campaign=west_midlands_newsletter2&utm_medium=email

Please ask Andy how, exactly, the £200 m has been spent, when not a single new train station or railway line has reopened in the six years (and much longer - actually, since 1998) since he became Mayor in 2017.  Even the short Metro extensions opened in 2016 (1 Km) and 2023 (2 Kms) were both started before he was elected.  However, he IS responsible for the work started in 2019 to destroy the UK's last, supposedly safeguarded, principal mainline railway and to turn it, eventually by 2100, into the world's first 120 Kms train-tram-train railway between Worcester, the Black Country and Derby.  By next year, 5.5 Kms will have trams running on it.  It will then be a train-freight only-test track-Metro tram-fresh air-cycle/walkway-train railway.  Wot a joke!

What, exactly is this tangible progress?  Is it not all plain dishonest, exaggerated spin, to deceive the gullible public?

Probity, integrity and competence are all sadly lacking in the fine but empty words from dear, so likeable, Andy.  And his 2021 independent review into Metro is still not published.  An all round shocking performance.

WHERE IS THE PROOF I AM WRONG?  I wish I was.  The Green Party supposed 'opposition' in Solihull is also truly dire and a total waste of even a waste bin