QUESTIONS for us all

Should our Mayor now be speaking out against West Midlands armaments industry fueling the slaughter of wholly innocent Gazans (and West Bank Palestinians) who simply wish to LIVE and to live in peaceful co-existence with Israel?

Should our Mayor be resisting the hundreds of millions going into multi-modal public transport that actually means regular trains and buses being swapped with Metro trams and Sprint buses?

Should the Mayor be acquainted with the uncomfortable fact that these kinds of extremely expensive expenditure (armaments and multi-modal public transport) simply accelerate the climate emergency and divert private and public funds from helping low incomes with, for example, regional Fare-Free Public Transport for every citizen?

QUESTIONS for Mayor Andy and his rival, Richard

1. Whether or not you are elected, will you work for our (WMCC) Climate Action Points​​​
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   ​to be urgently implemented?

2. Which one are you able to name and will you work for its implementation asap, regardless of the election outcome?

3. Why do you approve the spending of £6.1 BILLION between 2017 and 2032 on swapping buses and trains for mainly trams and Sprint buses?

4. How come this has been reduced from £15 billion between 2020 and 2040?

5. Can you explain how there is a lethal connection between money spent and accelerating climate disaster?

6. Can you make clear the difference between bus franchising and the present Enhanced Bus Partnership scheme?

7. Which do you prefer and why?

8. Have you worked out the cost of bus franchising compared with extending the regional Fare-Free Public Transport for older citizens to everyone?

9. As money is tight what is your order of priority for spending:-

tram extensions  -  Sprint bus extensions  -  putting trains back on urban railway lines not yet destroyed  -  bus franchising  -  Fare-Free Public Transport extended  -  bus/business lanes to free up road space in rush hours for essential vehicle users and to reward bus, train, tram users?

10  Within the United Nations, what does IPCC stand for and can you summarise the danger that human activity and behaviour is putting us all in?

11  Should the Dudley Tram, when it is extended from Dudley town centre on the mainline railway​
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​ via that railway, should it come off the railway to divert into Merry Hill or stay on the railway to connect with the national railway network at Stourbridge Jct?