... their big, expensive, engineering projects.
Dear Top Women
You must oppose climate/energy intensifying grand schemes like Metro and Sprint
This month's £6.1 billion to 2032 for 95% Metro and Sprint glam splurge means 6.1 billion units in weight of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is disastrous. Get your engineers and planners employed in getting regular buses and trains up to scratch and the remnant of railway lines back in use for TRAINS not trams (except from Cinder Bank roundabout to Stourbridge Jct, now you have put trams and a test track on the UK's last principal mainline
). Get your staff and money redeployed into insulating and solar powering the homes of the poorest in the region. This is how it is done:
SAVE MONEY AND GHG EMISSIONS FROM NOT BOTHERING WITH MORE METRO AND SPRINT AND BUS FRANCHISING:
I have doubts over the wisdom of franchising because:
- We had it for decades until the 1980s at a time when public transport was in decline and private transport in the ascendancy. Dreadful things happened with public transport during that time!!
- We already have the professional partnership between the officers at 16 Summer Lane and the bus companies.
- The Bus Partnership fixes fares and routes, anyway. So nothing is gained from franchising.
- Council control destroyed the total tram network and a very large part of Brum's/Black Country railway network.
- All seven councils and councillors leave public transport to 16 Summer Lane. There is a serious democratic deficit because transport directors are sold on developing highly climate/resource-expensive, LR, VLR and ULR rail projects, plus Sprint buses.
- Edinburgh City Council had discussions, debates and votes before going ahead with their two tram schemes.
- Councillors who change every year, are blinded by the engineering results, the stunning cleverness of the new, multi-modal magnificence of it all. Checking, challenging, questionning does not take place. Now called scrutiny.
- Tens of millions for franchising that must go into Fare-Free Public Transport (FFPT).
- Hundreds of millions from the 7 councils and cllrs for Metro should be going into FFPT and raising the status of buses at the expense of the dreadful road clogging car commuters.
- Use the franchising and Metro extension money for bribing car commuters onto buses, trains, trams in the 6 hour rush hour every weekday.
- My two year Hagley Road experiment suggestion is better!
- Franchising is the theory. The Bus Partnership is the working reality that franchising cannot possibly improve upon.
- Let individual cllrs and officers become shareholders in the bus companies and even the TfWM, itself. MAKE MONEY from the dividends in being shareholders!
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