CAF supplies the Midland Metro trams to Transport for W Midlands/WMCA.
Since 1981, this has been a wholly unnecessary vanity/glamorous scheme to spend £15 billions by 2040 on 240 Kms of tramway to replace buses and, for trams ("a bus on rails") to go on disused railway lines.
Railway trains must go on our remaining wasted or, partly used lines, as we succeeded in doing with the re-opening of the railway line from Kings Norton to Grand Central via Kings Heath and Moseley, in April. It had been down for Metro trams from 1981 to 2016.
The billions should be spent on the other scandal of car commuters clogging up roads when they don't need their cars for their jobs. Enticing and coercing them onto regional Fareless Public Transport which I have had for 18 years, I'm so ancient but modern!
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