Saturday, 6 June 2026

Mixed-Use Railway nirvana

Heavy rail with far too many freight only lines in the West Midlands

Tram-train and train-tram

Metro

Light Rail

Very Light Rail

Ultra Light Rail

Sprint - the bus that thinks its a tram

All about turning buses and trains into even more railway modes.

At the most shocking cost!

At least half a dozen railway modes causes confusion as to which to use,

more changes from all the different transport modes,

means more delays.

Takes money and therefore finite resources away.

Gobbles up yet more finite fossil fuels to make fools of us all when none is left - long after I'm dead and buried.

Accelerates Climate horrors for future generations.

Greedily takes from future stores/requirements and today's people who simply want easier, faster, cheaper travel from good ol' buses and trains!

Gazans have nothing; we rich Westerners have the lot.

Greedy and selfish as we all go down the swanny to yet more jolly catastrophes - in future, not just confined to the Middle East!

We are far too entitled, privileged and expecting even more from a planet that cannot go delivering ever more for us wealthy types.

Front gardens, tree and grass embankment gone for a tramway or two in the West Midlands.  Nature takes a hammering from tram expansion and she gets her own back with worse Climate horrors.

MASS TRAGEDY

HMG's Task Force on rapid mass transit, so far, has worked out as not being rapid or a massive answer to congested/polluted roads.  25 Kms in 41 years of trying when they wanted 200 Kms by 26 years ago.  By that year they had precisely 21 Kms, 19 Kms on a former mainline railway that could have its trains back and stations years earlier!

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.

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