Dear Mike
Your marvellous, mighty Metro is creeping ever closer to devouring my own 1990s magnificent, vertical guerrilla garden, plus public open space, nature, housing land and these trees ...
You can avoid all this destruction by terminating the tram at the Waterfront.
In the early 1990s, my family and I much enjoyed free parking at the Waterfront but, paying 40p each for the monorail ride into Central Station at Merry Hill SC. And the station is still there in the heart of the shopping centre - in the roof - and you can view it from the top of the canal embankment, too! In the past, public viewing of the station has opened at anniversaries of the monorail.
MORE GOOD NEWS!
The Swiss-engineered monorail by Von Roll may still be in use in Queensland, Australia. You could buy it back and this time, unlike your predecessors, actually connect it to the Dudley Tram at the Waterfront. Your predecessors, together with Don and Roy Richardson in 1990, left it 400 metres short of the freight-only mainline coming up from Port Talbot to Round Oak Steel!
Or, simply use an electric bus to connect the Waterfront tram stop to Merry Hill and keep the tram on the railway to connect with the national railway network at Stourbridge Junction. After all, the UK tram promotion group, in your Transport HQ, called the tram "a bus on rails" on the 'Today' programme in 2016, after the Croydon tram crash: "Of 69 passengers, there were seven fatalities and 62 injured, 19 of whom sustained serious injuries." Wikipedia
Mike, let me show you what I mean with a site visit.
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