The transport engineers and planners have had decades destroying all the properly closed Beeching railway lines because they made such big losses as we all went out and bought cars. Now, we are no longer building roads, homes and offices on commuter railway lines. Instead, converting a principal, mainline railway, alongside or near to congested M5/M6, into a tramway and cycle-walkway! This is the 120 Kms, unfinished in the middle, Black Country railway that bypasses Brum to the west between Worcester and Derby.
No wonder we have to have High Scam 2 to give plane passengers between London and Brum a change of scenery from clouds and sky to fields and the remaining woods from the super fast train!
End the expansion of multi-modal public transport in the West Midlands and West Yorkshire. Heavy rail, Light rail and Very Light Rail mean more changes and delays between the three different railway modes. Railway lines and concrete are very expensive in both price and in weight of GHG emissions.
Give the LR, VLR funds for regional Fare-Free Public Transport (and free buses throughout England) FOR ALL that I, as an old geezer, have had for 16 years.
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