Dear WMCC and friends - email for what YOU want to customerservices@wmca.org.uk
I remain concerned that we are missing out on obvious and easy wins to get reductions in GHG emissions and a more socially just and involved/concerned W Midlands.
There must be a Public Forum item on every WMCA and council agenda. My own council has had this for years. It must be extended as a vital way to influence senior officers and members. Elections make no difference when you have Tweedle Dum (Tory) and Tweedle Dee (Labour) to choose between. A complete waste of time.
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 when top attention must be given to buses.
It has also ruined 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 MADNESS!!
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.
Does anyone disagree with what I have written here, please?
Am I totally out of my mind with these priorities?:-
Can there PLEASE be a discussion on Tuesday about what I have written here? No more polite silence, apathy, acquiescence!!
Tim
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