Point 1:
A Showpiece to impress and flatter; a glossy piece of propaganda to entice inward investment
The word 'Climate' is mentioned 11 times. Net-zero, 20 times. Hydrogen 4 times.
In reply to your points.
The Growth Plan has only just been published and is full of good intentions, fine words promising Paradise on earth for all.
In order to get better connectivity, all the magnificent, multi-modal mish-mash of different kinds of public transport must be done to raise the living standards of everyone and, to banish deprivation for an eternity. The Growth Plan is like a political party's manifesto that must be produced every few years but is scan read, I suspect, by very few. Much of the document is the recitation of the bleeding obvious and is over optimistic, especially assuming that rising prosperity is inevitable - anyway, certainly for the rich.
Who does read it from cover to cover?
Is it for reference, only perhaps?
Is it a marketing document to show off the West Midlands at its best?
Do councillors and officers follow it, like the Bible, that tells them what they have to do?
Who buys it?
How many copies are printed?
What was achieved in the previous Growth Plan?
Can we see the results?
Point 2:
£2.4 billion for transport and infrastructure, when we need, in my opinion, my
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