... to stop the official policy of converting bus and train services into TRAMWAYS by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and West Yorkshire Combined Authority. 200 years ago, UK tramways were being replaced by railways. Present policy is backward, stupid, and is similar to our ancestors allowing the superb road network, bequeathed by the Roman Empire, to fall into wrack and ruin.
REASONS:
This enormous expenditure, since the 1980s in the case of the West Midlands, has accelerated the Climate Emergency, officially acknowledged by the WMCA by their declaration in 2019.
£ spent = lb weight in greenhouse gas emissions, as a very rough rule of thumb because of our addiction to finite fossil fuels.
Construction of W Midlands tramways is the second biggest expenditure per Km of any transport project after HS2.
That money should be going to help the lowest incomes with food and energy bills.
That money should be going to insulate/upgrade the homes of the poorest.
That money should be going for Fare-Free Public Transport and to make buses and trains as least as good as the average on the mainland of Europe.
TIM WELLER 0791 380 4363
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