All the trees, shrubs and plants have been clear felled in this photo, apart from the far left hand top corner that is on the far side of the canal:
As I explained to Toqueer, I have succeeded in preventing this totally unnecessary destruction when it was due to be completed in the year 2000. In the 1990s the monorail was built at Merry Hill but then closed and removed to Australia to make way for the trams - now due to arrive at the end of the decade when the monorail could have been doing the job to reduce GHG emissions over the last 30 years.
I played a small part in stopping the conversion of the Brum to Bristol mainline railway to part tramway. Since the 2016 announcement the plan is to rebuild the three railway stations (ongoing for years!)
I'm trying to explain to people that to fight the Climate Emergency, multi-modal public transport meaning Very Light Rail trams (VLR in Coventry), Light Rail Metro (LR), regular heavy rail trains (HR), High Speed Rail (HS2), Sprint buses and regular buses ... do not help!! However, VLR or Stourbridge Shuttle on the world's shortest branch line (1.5 Kms) I asked for in the 1990s is sensible.
I don't want the Stourbridge Shuttle extended onto the London to Edinburgh, Black Country Mainline Railway to meet the Dudley Tram - one idea being discussed. The tram is a "bus on rails". Better to get electric buses directly on roads without the railway tracks. Does this meet with Climate reduction measures, do you think?
It would be wonderful if you three gentlemen and Footsteps could also help with getting the decision makers to concentrate on getting electric buses and trains, ONLY - and trains not trams on existing but unused railway lines. It is supposed to be a Climate Emergency, after all!
Please write to customerservices@tfwm.org.uk - especially if you can go along with what I am suggesting.
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