... all my adult life since arriving in Brum in 1968, as a student.
We are deepening the Climate Emergency with this kind of behaviour
In 57 years, GROWTH in roads and private transport by the people at 16 Summer Lane, supposedly, devoted to public transport.
Great road schemes delivered, like the Brum Inner Ring Road of free-flowing traffic and then, after a few years, demolition on two sections to install traffic lights and a longer one-way system of snarled up traffic. Climate idiocy.
A mighty flyover to soar over Selly Oak was planned in 1968. Eventually, in the next century, a bypass was built for the A38. Public transport neglected and ignored.
Meanwhile, public transport has failed to receive the same attention and funding to persuade car commuters to use buses and trains to free up the road network for essential vehicle users, like bus and lorry drivers. Climate irresponsibility.
Since 1981, millions of pounds in price and weight of GHG emissions have been expended to no good purpose to rebuild the 200 Kms tramway network only just obliterated by our transport experts 20 years earlier. To date, 44 years on, only 23 Kms have been achieved and 18 Kms of the 23 Kms on a mainline railway between platform 4 at Snow Hill station and Wolverhampton Low Level station - now a conference and events centre. Transport incompetence.
Meanwhile, over these 57 years I have seen the Longbridge to Four Oaks railway upgraded, Walsall to Rugeley reopened and Smethwick Galton Bridge to Moor Street reopened. However, still, there remains many railway lines unused or freight only, as roads and motorways become clogged with traffic. MAP:
It is thought that Christmas, this year, this time, an even more important mainline railway ... is due to be turned into a tramway to extend the first, Snow Hill to Wolverhampton mainline. This Dudley Tram is on the London to Edinburgh, via the Black Country Railway. It is one of only two north-south railways west of Brum. Now destroyed. Climate ecocidal behaviour.
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