Thanks, Keith. LR and VLR are unnecessary diversions from addressing the Climate and Nature crises and the decline in the most popular and best used and universal public transport - buses.
Reporters: - Mark Andrews has been the best over the years and, for human/social justice stories, Jane Haynes is great. Both copied into this so that you now have their emails.
That is terrible news, especially for the residents of Park Road. VLR is an utter waste of time and money but it is simply part of the nationwide drive to spend money on so many wrong things in order to get economic growth/environmental destruction - but when there are right and sensible things which can be done - like Trains Back on the Tracks (the name for my blog). About 100 Kms remain in the W Mids awaiting trains NOT TRAMS! See Railfuture's map:
Nothing has changed since 2003:One photo says it all! The bridge has been in place but empty since December 2003 when the M6 Toll was opened. The authorities build railways and then forget to put TRAINS on them, as here:
The railway lines were nicked over the 23 years but the route is now becoming a cycle/walkway on the Walsall to Lichfield section of the former principal mainline railway from London to Edinburgh - Trump's influence:
I have achieved little in getting on for 40 years of pointing out that trains go on railway lines and buses on roads directly. And, certainly, buses do not need to be replaced with "bus on rails" trams (Tram HQ/16 Summer Lane quote). VLR is one of 9 public transport modes - ridiculous. Can I remember them all? Lets try:
High Speed - greedy and destructive in a tiny country like England
Regular heavy rail - ESSENTIAL
Light Rail - nice but a luxury and accelerates Climate problems galore.
Your VLR in Coventry and our VLR test track on the former London-Dudley-Edinburgh principal mainline at Dudley Castle Hill! What I expect from unhinged Trumpland NOT England.
Ultra light rail - Stourbridge Shuttle in my borough which is excellent on 1.2 Kms single track. SENSIBLE.
Regular buses - ESSENTIAL so make them free for all to address Climate, congestion, pollution.
Sprint buses - greedy luxury. The bus that thinks its a tram.
Guided busways reportedly coming to Hagley Road instead of Metro tram extension! Waste of money = more GHG emissions which have to be cut.
Hydrogen fuel cell/Battery electric buses - ESSENTIAL That makes 9! I make three as ESSENTIAL and one SENSIBLE!
9 modes to mean more changes and delays between the different modes.
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