It was brilliant to hear from you, Gerald. Thanks so much for your support and for saying so. A great encouragement.
Please "identify the critical (M25) paragraph in the SACTRA report for you and also detail the 3 examples provided by Gรถssling". I would very much like to read it.
We seem to be understanding that we cannot forever go on building motorways to get out of road traffic congestion, so now we have hard shoulder running and High Scam 2 that goes so fast it can only stop at three terminal stations, two airports and some trains will divert to stop in Brum and Crewe. Therefore, it is totally pointless and a scandalous waste of public money in giving the few the choice of either flying through the air in a plane or on land in a train that only a tiny minority of the population will ever use. All the intercity trains must remain. The capacity argument is a lie because the High Scam train cannot possibly give the rest of us more trains and more services on the regular railway network.
Similarly, spending many hundreds of millions of pounds in price and in weight of greenhouse gas emissions to replace and duplicate buses and trains that need upgrading for highly expensive to construct trams is worsening all our problems and accelerating climate/resource catastrophe. All the highly glitz and glamorous, prestigious projects like Metro, the Commonwealth Games, three times reconstruction of Centenary Sq and Victoria Sq are all indicative of wrong spending that has now helped to make Brum broke.
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