Irresponsible, immoral and hypocritical to be spending well over £1 BILLION of taxpayers' money for 10 Kms of trams diverted off the Dudley to Brierley Hill railway into the wealthy pockets of the Merry Hill owners. They get millions of additional assets at our expense!
Over £1 billion to build 10.1 Kms of tramway. 70% is on and destroys the UK's last principal mainline railway that goes through three Black Country boroughs between London and Edinburgh.
Over £1 billion of our taxes are stolen from the poor who might have benefited directly if that money was used to help the poorest with food, housing and energy bills that they urgently need.
Over £1 billion to destroy housing land and nature to take it the 600 m distance from Merry Hill to Cottage Street, Brierley Hill.
These trees were felled this month to build the 400 m concrete and steel viaduct on the canal embankment:
Over £1 billion that could be used to give everyone the REWARD, the GIFT of using buses, trains, trams for FREE, as I have had for over 17 years as an OAP.
If the trams stayed on the principal mainline railway
the trams would still go into Brierley Hill from Dudley town but also go on to Stourbridge Jct and so connect three towns by 'back to the future' tramway and connect to the national railway network.
The tram is an incentive to increase footfall at Merry Hill with shoppers using the tram to get into Merry Hill instead of supporting their local businesses in Brierley Hill and Dudley town.
Hypocritical when you have declared a Climate Emergency in 2020, which means you must spend on Climate compliant measures as your top priority. NOT TRAM EXPANSION which is 3x more expensive for us to build than 46 other tramway schemes around the world, and so accelerates Climate ecocide! Source:
TIM WELLER
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