Many thanks, Beate. How did I come by your name and email address, please?!
The councillors and MPs are meant to pick up on these things but they have not done so, many are very poorly informed, change so often and have to rely and believe the full-time, professional officers - the senior officers who are always so eloquent and polished in their delivery to committee. I attend as a member of the public from time to time but I'm never allowed to say anything or even to hang around afterwards to speak to members or to speak to officers. Dan Essex quickly rounds me up and ushers me out onto the street!
Councillors and MPs are lobby fodder, are rarely asked to vote, have to toe the party line and dare not challenge, scrutiny and be as outspoken as I am, as a complete nobody and responsible to absolutely no-one!! I don't have to watch my back as the politicians have to do to keep getting voted back in. The committees and boards are talking shops for members to chip in with their thoughts. Very largely a waste of time, I feel. I try and influence them via email but I rarely get a response. THANKS SO MUCH for yours!
I have been following the sorry saga of transport since 1967 when I first came as a student for an interview at Westhill College in Selly Oak. Then, it was to be a mighty flyover for Bristol Road, not a bypass as we now have.
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