FORWARD is their motto!

FORWARD is their motto! Thursday 4 April 2024

Brum CC is the leading and biggest member of the WMCA with Andy Street as their Mayor for seven years.  He is responsible for:

1)  Taking 7 years of actual work on the ground to build 700 metres of tramway in Wolverhampton.  SCANDALOUS

2)  Taking 6 years of work on the ground to build only 5 Kms of tramway, almost all of it on a former, existing and mothballed, principal mainline railway.  It is one of only two north-south railways between Brum city centre and the Irish Sea - now wrecked with light rail and a very light rail test track.  Planning started in 1981 and the light rail Metro tram was due to open in the year 2000!  It will open this year or next year!   INCOMPETENCE

3)  9 new railway stations on the Mayor's map.  5 of them have been worked on since last decade and not one is open and in use!  LAZINESS AND NEGLIGENCE

4)  Brum's Metro Westside extension of 3 Kms will mean 1,000 trees and shrubs will be lost and front gardens concreted.  All that nature concreted and the hundreds of millions in both price and in weight of greenhouse gas emissions to build it means CLIMATE EMERGENCY ACCELERATED.

5)  Not a single Sprint line, with buses, is in use after more than ten years and tens of millions of pounds wasted of public money for staff salaries for the little work done.  ECONOMIC ILLITERACY AND INCOMPETENCE

6)  Sprint parallels good railway links (IN USE, praise be!) and duplicates bus routes.  WRONG PRIORITIES

And they call all this PROGRESS, would you believe!!

WHAT TfWM SAYS:

"Phase 1 of Sprint is now complete. The first phase was delivered on time and to budget and included extended bus lanes and priority signalling along the A34 and A45."  BUT NOT THE SWISH, FLASH, NEW SPRINT BUSES!!

"We're now moving on to Phase 2, which will complete the Sprint corridor in Walsall, Birmingham City Centre and Solihull. You can view the plans and have your say on Commonplace. This work is expected to begin in 2024."  BUT NO SWANKY BUSES, STILL!

FROM:  https://www.tfwm.org.uk/who-we-are/what-we-do/sprint-bus-priority-corridor/