Dear Helen and friends
Twelve months ago Helen Attwood wrote, "to ensure our sites, service users and staff have the best access to sustainable and active travel." (my emphasis). I am your service user and, from my experience, it is all wishful, fine intentions but undelivered. To be honest, it is cloud cuckoo land!
It cannot be true, after all this time, when there is not even ONE Sheffield cycle stand on the E side of the main entrance where there is room, as I wrote yesterday.
This cannot possibly be true when I have no proof that you have actually written to each of TfWM, WMCA, Active Travel England to insist that what they have built as the 22 Kms Black Country Cycle-Walk Mudway, the UK's most important urban-rural-urban cycle-walkway, MUST be finished with a wide, all weather surface that we can use as a business, leisure and commuter route for the increasing numbers who would use it as such, if it is made fit for purpose. Remember, that it is a little over half a kilometre from the Trust's front door!
Even all you good people who are wedded and welded to your cars, can reduce road traffic congestion by insisting that the UK's most important, forgotten, fully built but without trains, 120 Kms railway, MUST be finished for us to use. We could all get about in our cars more easily if the destruction and waste of the West Midlands railway lines was stopped. This is because, although you may feel you have to use your cars, plenty of others, like me, will use trains, as well as cycles.
Could I please have a one hour meeting with you to discuss your doubts and to answer your questions and scepticism over my facts and figures regarding tragic transport in the borough of Dudley? This is one map, from 2003 to show what STILL must be done, simply to address congestion and air pollution, quite apart from the five years climate emergency that is being ignored as we carry on with business as usual:
With best wishes
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