Thank you for the helpful email about Eastside Metro.
Will you please discuss with TfWM/WMCA and the Snr Leadership Team that WBHE Metro from Flood St, Dudley stays on the former mainline railway
in order to connect with the national railway network at Stourbridge Jct and does NOT come off the railway at Hart's Hill to run into Merry Hill SC, as is planned. And planned since the early 1980s when Metro was launched with 200 Kms of tramway by the year 2000!
MORE DETAIL:
Please avoid levelling up the rich owners of Merry Hill Shopping Centre by giving them, for free, yet more wealthy assets - this time a tramway and, from public funds, too.
THE TRAM TO SHOPS OR STATION - to Merry Hill or railway network?
It will save over £100 m and, a similar weight of greenhouse gas emissions, if you abandon the plan to take the Dudley Tram off the railway line into Merry Hill to destroy public open space, nature, housing land and a vertical guerrilla garden. Instead, keep it on the railway to connect it to the national railway network at Stourbridge Junction.
Your 400 m long, very energy intensive in construction, high climate impacting, concrete and steel tramway viaduct, is too destructive and the tram deposits Merry Hill shoppers on the high canal embankment towpath and not above the shops, as TfWM previous monorail did.
Will you also think again about the Westside extension to the Kings Head, Bearwood. Please confirm or deny that about 1,000 trees and shrubs will need to be felled on the south side of Hagley Road. This, at a time of worsening climate emergency, when the UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world and nature is all we have to sequester carbon dioxide.
I am suggesting that the funds are transferred and staff members are redeployed for this suggestion:
Tim Weller
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