HMG's Task Force on mass rapid transit, so far, has worked out as not being rapid or a massive (or mini) answer to congested/polluted roads. The total today is 23 Kms in 45 years of trying when they wanted 200 Kms by the year 2000, 26 years ago! By that year, they had precisely 20 Kms, 18 Kms on a former mainline railway that could have its trains and stations back years earlier, for a fraction of the price. And platform 4 at Snow Hill railway station is still not used/wasted where the tram went from in 1999 when opened! (Distances measured again, to check, using the OS digital tool.)
Since Jan 2020, the Mayor of the W Mids has wanted 240 Kms, 8 lines and 380 tram stops by 2040. Only costing £15 billion (money grows on trees and both Mayors are also Climate deniers from their actions).
THE TRAGEDY OF TRAMS - has resulted in them being:
All too devastating of roads, buildings and of nature.
All too expensive at a time of Climate breakdown of extreme weather and disturbed climate patterns, plus rapidly depleting gas and oil which, with coal, are the worst offenders when burnt.
All too diverting of time, staff and money from addressing Climate and sustainability issues which we ignore like dumb sheep, so we can live foolishly, infinitely on a finite planet and unnaturally on a natural planet. Human folly. As stupid as two police officers being unable to see that their top priority was to save the life of the man at their feet and flat on his face, pleading for help as he lay dying.
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