This is the 3rd letter I have sent to Mayor and Transport for WM over the last six months:-
'I would like to commend you for the two initiatives for free transport before Christmas and on New Years Day. I was wondering if you would send me the statistics on the uptake and if there was an increase in usage, please.
Secondly, I would really like the West Midlands to suspend the proposed expenditure on increasing our tram network and to plough some of the money into expanding the existing bus routes, providing more buses more frequently. The six billion plus financial allocation could easily be diverted to improving the current bus network and then channelling it into other projects that would improve our carbon footprint.'
I do believe in your cause and will support you on it in public.
As for the motion I have put to UCU in branch and eventually nationally, it is on FREE Buses. I can't speak for the Ecosocialists but agree with you trams are an environmental disaster and I don't think we should extol their comfort, especially as they are so slow in comparison to trains.
We are both on the 'same page', we just have to get our message across,
Babs
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