Their money goes goes on prestige, vanity projects to impress and rival other UK cities like Manchester. The Mayor is desperate for High Scam 2 fast to stop at any stations and for a £15 BILLION (2020 figure), 150 miles and 8 lines of Metro, with 380 tram stops. Both schemes accelerate the climate crisis, deepen the climate emergency and the shortage of vital resources.
This corrupt scheming takes money away from the greater urgency of draught proofing and insulating the homes of the poorest and giving them a modern electricity grid that can cope with renewables powering their homes, NOT flash, grandiose, grand and totally unnecessary High Scam trains, "bus on rails" trams, Sprint buses - "the bus that thinks it's a tram". Worse, the richest borough out of the seven gets two heavy rail modes (High Scam 2 fast to stop at any stations, plus regular trains), one light rail (Metro) and two kinds of buses - Sprint and the regular buses. Truly ridiculous. Absurd. Immoral. OTT!
The biggest single item of WMCA spending is, I believe, on transport.
The biggest single transport development spending must be Metro LR extensions, together with VLR, ULR, and Sprint roll out. This highly expensive spending is totally unnecessary, accelerates depletion of oil and gas reserves, accelerates GHG emissions and hence the climate crisis to threaten all life on earth. It diverts attention away from climate justice that demands that the top transport attention must be given to boost bus use.
It has also spoiled two mainline railways now given over to trams and, the surviving urban railway lines are still having to play second fiddle to LR, VLR, ULR and Sprint. THIS IS ABSURD!!
My standing as an Independent candidate for Mayor, in May, is simply to use it as a platform to get the abandonment of these very wrong priorities, to show the more sensible and life-affirming measures to spend money in the short term to get justice for the poor and much less spending on finite fossil fuels in the medium to long term.
Once again, my £5,000 goes NOT to this wayward, clueless, floundering government but to three international humanitarian charities.
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