You are each responsible for what has gone so wrong in YOUR organisation! Our TDOS committee is as out of control as our great friend and ally, Israel. TDOS will not act. Over to you, Andrew!
You should be horrified and be wanting to do something positive, constructive and helpful and to use your power and influence to improve things, as influential members of the WMCA! Or, are you a talking shop and rubber stamp? Do you really question, challenge and scrutinise?
Your Overview and Scrutiny is top of the pyramid over all the other committees. Are you able to examine the growth of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the other committees and even the Board which does not scrutinise, at all?
How big a mention does worsening Climate get in your very fine Growth Plan?
It looks as though you are wriggling out, dear friends, of your responsibilities as private citizens to speak up over what is going so wrong at 16 Summer Lane. For decades, I have been doing all that you have suggested. Now your turn TO ACT and to give a fine lead to me!
Your Overview and Scrutiny Committee needs to take an all round, BIG PICTURE view of the wrong priorities at your HQ. You are meant to major on lessening the Climate Emergency - NOT worsening it.
QUESTIONS:
What, exactly, was delivered from your last Growth Plan?
What was so wrong about the last Growth Plan for it having to be ditched?
How many Growth Plans have there been since 2016 when the CA was established?
What weight and growth of GHG emissions has the CA seen since 2016?
When will the new, next Growth Plan be written?
Why no Public Forum item on the agenda of a single committee?
Billions in price and in weight of GHG emissions, over my 57 years, wasted/pumped out on bizarre projects, on the most weird and wonderful priorities!
Public Transport in the Doldrums ...
... 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 were 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, finally 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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