Dear Top Officials at WMCA
Dudley MBC is paying millions for Dudley Tram, Phase 2 to wreck a nationally vital railway - one of only two N-S mainline railways between Brum and the Irish Sea
There must be someone who can get to the bottom of this and honestly and professionally answer my questions. Three questions:
- How much of Dudley Council's money, as its contribution, is going to finish the WBHE Phase 2 extension to Cottage St or is it just to Merry Hill?
- How is it that Andy Street thinks he's got DfT permission to turn the UK's last principal mainline railway "of national strategic significance "into a tramway (because of "the Transport and Works Act Order" he hurriedly threw back at me as he disappeared into chairing his Board meeting). But that legislation was many years ago and was never intended to wreck perfectly good/unfinished railways by turning them into tramways. Especially when I got my way, last decade, when the DfT decided to follow my advice and have their 'Restoring Your Railways' initiative. But, strangely, it does not apply to finishing the 120 Kms Black Country Railway with trains and stations - only trams and tram stops at nearly ten times per Km cost of using what was so successful for 100 years!
My letter, above, from DfT dated 8 March 2018 proves he does not have the evidence. I have it and he is wrong. Even if he was right, it must be the most nonsensical decision after the nonsense of High Scam 2 with no stations, for people who refuse to fly, to get on and off the thing! MORE DETAIL: Two terminal stations, two stations that some trains get diverted to (Brum and Crewe) and two airports, ONLY!
3. Will you please forward to me, and the media, the full, unredacted, "independent" report into Metro that Andy commissioned in 2021.
THANK YOU!
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