ANDY IS AN OPTIMISTIC, POPULAR, SLICK PUBLIC RELATIONS FIGURE, BUT ...
- Not a single railway line has reopened and only one station was rebuilt in 7 years (the super-duper, the gigantic spectacle that is University railway station, with a financial crisis in 2022 to suspend work for months).
- In fact, things have gone backwards with work begun on the ground in 2019 to destroy the second, even more important railwaythan the first.
- The first was the mainline between Snow St station and Wolverhampton railway station - turned into a tramway when opened in 1999, would you believe!
- The second destroyer of railways is the shuttle Dudley Tram to Wednesbury tram stop on the first mainline railway so nicely wiped out in the 90s.
- Not a single new railway station has opened in 7 years of his mayorship.
- 3 new train stations were begun for a railway line in use but, for decades, without stations for Brummies to use!
- Until the year before Andy was elected, that mainline railway between Brum and Bristol was to be turned into a tramway. That had been the case for 35 years!
- Only 3.7 Kms of tramway opened in Andy's 7 years. They began long before Andy was even thought of as a possible Mayor!
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