to Libby at Brum FoE

Please can you also campaign for my nearly 40-year-old insistence that there is no need for tramways to take over railways and bus routes.  Use the staff and the, literally, billions in price and in weight of GHG emissions for Metro and Sprint extensions, to get car commuters onto buses, trains and trams, to free up road space for essential vehicle users.

IN ADDITION:

• Use the Metro and Sprint money and the staff at WMCA to address instead of accelerating the Climate Emergency.
• Use the money and the staff to get the homes of the poorest insulated.  Even the private landlords must be given loans to get their properties made Climate compliant.
• Use the money and the staff to build small and medium sized homes for those on state benefits and other low incomes.  And solar powered with batteries.  I think, batteries in homes to balance the grid and to store solar electricity are more important than for private cars.
• The TfWM/WMCA HQ must also be made Climate compliant - to eliminate the charge of hypocrisy.
• Buses, trains and trams are far more important than private cars.  Their use must be boosted, not cars. 
• Midland Metro extensions are three times more expensive per Km to construct than any other place in the world!  See:
   CNNCT Costs Comment September 2024.pdf
  Summarised here:

• Sunday, 15 December 2024

  SHOCKING DATA re Midland Metro costs from CNNCT Ltd - consultants

  Confirms my own research in Like for like comparison of infrastructure building costs

  "In total, 79 Light Rail projects from across the world have been researched when gathering data."

  " ... data suggest that the Midland Metro extensions represent some of the highest costs per kilometre ever seen anywhere in the World for tram schemes."

  "Midland Metro Alliance projects report an average of over £100 million per route kilometre as shown in the results: -

  Dataset Average Cost per Route Km (£M) for 47 LR projects, here:

  Infrastructure Only Schemes 27.93   (Infrastructure costs only, extensions to existing tram projects for example.)

  All Inclusive Schemes 84.91  (All-In – Total project costs including the Tram Lines, Vehicles, Depots etc.)

  Midland Metro Alliance Schemes 116.01   (Infrastructure costs only, extensions to existing tram projects for example.)

  • Regardless of how the money has been spent, Midland Metro Alliance projects should be comprehensively reviewed by an independent regulated body, to understand exactly why these costs are reportedly three times the global average." (my, Tim Weller's emphasis)

Is there anything you can go along with here, Libby?  Please explain your point of view over what I have written.