Thank you for your excellent magazine which my wife and I have read and enjoyed.
In the next issue, would you feel able to help Chris and I drum up support for our Saturday 8 August event to get Dudley borough people walking, wheeling and cycling the Black Country Active Travel Route from the Woodland Trust Himley Plantation car park to the two coffee stops in two beautifully preserved railway stations in Wombourne and Tettenhall? The woodland car park is at the very top of the map, below, Simon.
Former councillor Chris Barnett and I are organising the event and we would value your help, please in publicising it in your publications. Full details are below. Do play down, or even exclude, the negative aspects of Dudley's section which we do not touch, and play up the positive of quiet, traffic free, smooth and dry surfaces on the South Staffordshire and Wolverhampton sections. These are the only sections, going away from Dudley, which we will be using. But we want, of course, Dudley people!
The aim of the day is to get all Black Country people walking and cycling more. In the process, the authorities might be encouraged to also improve the Dudley section for our use in future years.
Very many thanks. Tim
INVITATION TO OUR FOUR DUDLEY MPs and 72 councillors
Please will you work to get funding for our Dudley section of the UK's longest, urban-rural-urban, 20 Kms Black Country Active Travel Route from Fens Pool Avenue, Brierley Hill to our border with South Staffordshire at Himley?
The full 20 Kms runs to NW Wolverhampton to link with former councillor, Chris Barnett's circular cycle-walkway via canal towpaths and Netherton Tunnel for commuter, business and leisure use. The surface is excellent through South Staffordshire, is adequate in Wolverhampton but is deplorable and unusable in Dudley's section. In addition, the adjacent, poisonous and polluted landfill site is dangerously, fully open to the public and is well used by dirt bikes, quad bikes and 4x4s who gain access via the Black Country Active Travel Route in Gornal/Gornalwood. Hence, Dudley's section is unusable for the vast majority of cyclists and walkers who want a quiet, traffic-free route for commuter, business and leisure use away from noisy, air polluting dirt bikes and 4x4 users who wreck the place.
Full details are here:
Alex, would you and your teams like to join us on Saturday 8 August at 10 am, at the Himley Woodland Trust Plantation car park to ride or walk, northwards on the Black Country Cycle-Walk-Horse ride Active Travel Route?
Please will you come over? It would be wonderful to meet you and your caseworkers, along with Cat Eccles, Mike Wood and Sonia Kumar to enjoy a relaxing morning cycling or walking to the two coffee shops/tea rooms in two old railway stations beautifully preserved.
MAP of Dudley's 5 Kms section:
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