This is what my Dudley Council Leader, Patrick Harley, wrote in reply:-
Thanks for the email Tim, Many thanks for yours - I think, the FIRST!
However as you are well aware this is an argument you lost a long time ago. You have never before heard my sensible argument that you do NOT gift the £650 m (2022 figure), 10.7 Kms, Metro tram on your mainline railway
to Merry Hill Shopping Centre that already has free car parking and the tram will take Dudley town shoppers off to Merry Hill by tram - much more fun and exciting than a boring bus!
No one even in the rail industry is on the same side of your argument. The rail industry loves trams on their railway lines more than commuter and regional trains. Throughout your political life, Pat you have fully supported the idiocy and enormous expense of turning the mainline railway between Snow Hill station and Wolverhampton into a tramway.
Metro will continue to Brierley Hill and will regenerate both Dudley and Brierley Hill. I have no doubt you will get your foolish way. However, you will go down in history as the well meaning but, sincerely mistaken politician who turned an even more important mainline railway into a piddling little shuttle tramway that is not even connected to the national railway network. Even when you have finished, the Dudley Mainline Railway will remain isolated and wasted at either end of the tramway on the railway!
Regards Best wishes Tim
Pat
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