Hi John - you are welcome to please send this to TfWM, for their response and as coming from me, if you wish. Just delete the sentence with your name in it or, better keep it in!
Their approach to determine the best transport mode is all hot air - meaningless, irrelevant and all style over substance. A solution looking for a problem. It gets us nowhere and makes Climate even worse!
Thanks so much for writing to TfWM and for their update.
I can assure you that what is written to us, yet again, about the Digbeth to Solihull extension is what they have told me over the last 44 years of work in getting the, supposedly, 200 Kms of Metro lines by the year 2000. Yet, NOT 200 Kms but only 20 Kms by that date. Since January 2020, very nice Andy Street promised us 150 miles by 2040, with 380 tram stops and 8 lines. All for £15 billion in price and in weight of GHG emissions. Richard Parker's policy is exactly the same.
Up to now, their very assiduous, careful and so, seemingly, professional approach, as described in the email to you, has achieved precisely 23 Kms of tramway. The 1999 delivered 20 Kms of Metro One has destroyed a perfectly good mainline railway between platform 4 at Snow Hill station and Wolverhampton Low Level station that, as a result, is now a conference and events centre. It would have been obvious, even to a primary school child, that with an existing, double track railway line, railway trains should go on it. It does not need decades of expensive work by well paid, fully trained transport experts to decide that our two mainline railways should be converted to tramways at many times more expensive per Km to construct than simply reinstating railway trains and stations.
All the politicians and transport experts agree that the more different kinds of transport modes that can be provided, the more superior the public transport becomes. The more the motorist will be impressed, find it so irresistible that they will desert their motors and pour onto the fabulous, multi-modal public transport of five rail modes and two bus modes. That has never happened in 44 years of hard endeavour of over promising and under delivering. Not just under delivering but destroying two mainline railways in the process. Totally counter productive! In fact, incompetence. Or, am I being far too harsh on them, John?
The full horror story of idiocy and incompetence - a fun read but true and not exaggerated - is here:
The well intentioned but absurd over provision of different transport modes between Solihull and Brum city centre is listed here:
What Network Rail and Department for Transport think is here - but nothing changes!:
Thanks so much, John for writing. Your position in society, your status and the respect you are held in Brum, makes your opinion a hundred times more valuable than mine.
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