Thursday 15 August 2024

40 or 50 years of the UK's most important business, commuting, leisure route for active travel is overlooked!!

Dear Tim and Stuart - perhaps, could Stuart reply with good news, this time, please to give a little joy to this old and quickly ageing man!  Years have gone by since we last met, Stuart.

"To make this LCWIP (= Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan & Delivery Plan) both manageable and deliverable over the 5-year period, it was agreed that 2 cycle routes and 1 walking zone per Local Authority area would be shortlisted to take forward to the Route Audit and Concept Design stages."

Please answer these points.
  1. For forty years, hundreds of millions of pounds in both price and weight of GHG emissions (GHG = greenhouse gas) are going into converting railway lines and bus routes into tramways.  Eight more Metro tramway lines over 150 miles by 2040 is the intention.  200 Kms by the year 2000 CE reached 20 Kms by that date but 28 Kms by the end of 2025, all being well.  All but 3 Kms on two mainline railways are now lost forever!
  2. Can the potential for modal shift from car commuting to bike commuting be considered, please?  I started for my social work even in the early 1990s - for both commuting and for my social work visits!
  3. Therefore, the UK's most important regional, in the heart of the Midlands conurbation, cycling and walking route to connect Russells Hall Hospital plus two major centres of population and one large town, Wombourne, has been improved - except in Dudley!
  4. This is a major achievement for S Staffs and Wolverhampton.
  5. Therefore, are you able to authorise a cutting back of vegetation on the Dudley section, please in the vicinity of the old Crooked House, near Himley?  I do this, myself (snip, cut and slash) on public rights of way that I walk.  But the Dudley section of the Black Country Trail is more than I can manage.  PLEASE HELP!
Very many thanks

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