NO WONDER BRUM IS BANKRUPT AND OBLIVIOUS OF CLIMATE REALITIES

I do hope you are right (over bus franchising making all the difference to road traffic congestion, air pollution and with car commuters returning to the buses in their hordes!)  With my 56 years of studying, living and working in the Black Country and Brum I have seen everything done and not done!  Glossy brochures, ad nauseam, promising the earth, roads and tramways have come and gone and, lots of railways have gone for good by being turned into roads and buildings.  It does mean, I have little confidence in local councils doing anything sensible, let alone running things any better under their wise stewardship and control!

After the Post Office Debacle, the biggest & longest running scandal in the history of the UK ...

Constant building, demolition, rebuilding ... of Centenary Sq, Brum ring road, tram network and W Midlands railway network.  Years of umpteen tower cranes scraping the skyline of Brum.

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Centenary Square in the first two decades of this century was rebuilt three times!

The Brum inner ring road was built and then demolished in two places within 20 years.

The tram network was obliterated in the 50s;

the urban railway network from the 60s onwards.

In the 80s, the Metro tram network began to be rebuilt on the railway network, of all things, not yet used for roads and buildings. 

In the 2020s, we find TWO mainline railways have been wrecked by Metro. The most recent is the 120 Kms Black Country Mainline Railway "of national strategic significance"!!

This second tramline ALSO destroys the only public open space, nature, housing land and my vertical guerrilla garden - at Merry Hill Shopping Centre!