21 questions for the experts

Dear friends - PLEASE TRY AGAIN.  This time with your answer against each question, so that I know which ones you have missed out!  All to be attempted (I'm pleading again!  But this ain't a school exam paper on which your future depends.  So give it a good go!)  There are additional questions and Q1 is made clearer, too:

Transport HQ was at 16 Summer Lane in the 1980s, up to the present day.  And Dudley MBC was also in existence then.  Please work together to give me sensible answers from your archive/records.  You must have them.  Nothing would have been shredded by such a professional organisation as yourselves.  Everything was recorded.  THEREFORE,

1. Why did the Merry Hill monorail only last from 1990 to 1993 before we saw it in use for many years subsequently in Queensland, Australia?
2. Is it still in use there?
3. Why was the monorail never connected to the railway at the Waterfront/Round Oak Rail terminal with the railway having its trains back then?  It fell 400 metres short, as in this map.
   
    1990s monorail.jpg
4. Why was the railway not re-opened for passenger use then?  One of only TWO North-South railways between Brum and the Irish Sea!  The 120 Kms Black Country Railway
   
    "of national strategic significance".pdf
   is actually SW to NE from Worcester to Derby but nothing in the middle 56 Kms!
5. Therefore, do you agree, 30 years of added road congestion and air pollution?
6. Did Centro refuse to co-operate with Don and Roy Richardson because Centro (aka W Mids Passenger Transport Executive)/Passenger Transport Authority (PTA) wanted the tram, instead?
7. The Metro tram going to Merry Hill was born in 1981.  Is that correct?
8. Or, what exactly, is the truth over the coming of the monorail and then its all too quick demise?
9. May I show Stuart Everton the monorail station in the roof of the shopping centre with its still working lift down to the stores?  It opens to the public on major anniversaries but there is no poor monorail!
10. If you keep the Dudley Tram (WBHE) on the railway to connect with the national railway network at Stourbridge Jct, as here
    
     Map Wednesbury - Brierley Hill.pdf
    would it get more passengers if you provided an electric bus from the tram stop at Waterfront/Round Oak into the Merry Hill bus station?
11. Can you use the money saved to give Fare-Free Public Transport (FFPT), to encourage modal shift?
12. What is the likely cost of franchising, aka bringing buses back under public control, as is seen in London?
13. For the West Midlands, what is the subsidy per passenger Km travelled for buses?  £9.6 m in total for 22/23.
14. For the W Mids, what is the subsidy per passenger Km travelled for trams?  £7.6 m in total for 22/23.
15. For the GLC, what is their figure for buses?
16. What is the cost, so far of the Metro tram extensions under construction?
17. What was the final cost of Metro One when it opened in 1999 and the costs of the subsequent extensions to it?
18. Has Network Rail contributed anything at all towards the costs of every new railway bridge for WBHE that they own and, the costs for the years of strengthening that was given to Parkhead Viaduct on the Black Country Railway given over to trams on 5.5 Kms?
19. Where is your evidence that when Richard Beeching very properly closed loss making railway lines as we all gave up train travel to buy cars, he intended them to be turned into homes, offices, shops, factories, roads and tramways?
20. Have you co-operated with DfT's 'Restoring Your Railways' project and in what ways and with what success?
21. Are you working with Maria Machancoses,CEO of Midlands Connect to get our Midlands railways reconnected with trains NOT TRAMS?  As on this map from the experts, Railfuture
    
     Railfuture's full map.pdf
    From 2003, yet nothing has changed in 21 years!

SOURCES:

In a letter dated 18.9.2000, from Tom Magrath, Passenger Services Director:

"light rail investment provides the basis for restoring heavy rail services at the appropriate time." That never comes!

To tell me that light rail Metro was needed to be put on the 120 Kms Black Country Mainline (Worcester to Derby) in order to be able to restore heavy rail services at a later date on that line is complete nonsense.  That idiocy is now repeated with the insistence that Very Light Rail must go on that inter-city line but that it will not stop express and local trains returning at a later date (conversation with David Golding, Principal Strategic Planner, Network Rail at Integrated Transport Authority (ITA) meeting on 16.7.2015)

No wonder, I am thinking that there is something very corrupt, very wrong at the heart of the West Midlands Combined Authority, Network Rail, ITA, TfWM - and, for decades, too.  They all want express and local trains returning but want Light Rail and Very Light Rail, first to help get the everyday commuter and regional trains back!