Dear Michael and friends
I tuned in to Monday's excellent webinar, again today but then I realised I had not registered, so missed it. I have a wedding to attend on Friday so will miss that one, too.
I have two attachments, here:
TWO PHOTOS:
Before the destruction of the great canal embankment for the tram:
What it looks like now, as they build for the tragic tram on the top of the canal embankment over 100 metres from the main entrance of the Merry Hill Shopping Centre:
They built the monorail, forgot to connect it to the principal mainline railway between London and Edinburgh via the 1 million population of the four Black Country boroughs and then closed it after only three years! It took shoppers from the nearby free car park to different parts of the centre and Central station was in the heart of the stores. The half used Worcester to Derby railway
has been broken up into light rail Metro, a Very Light Rail test track, a National Innovation Centre for VLR, a cycle-walkway, a freight line and fresh air. And this on a former principal mainline railway, too!
Better buses are better than "bus on rails" trams and regular buses must be vastly boosted with regional Fare-Free Public Transport for all, not just for my old crocks age group of ancient OAPs! Paid for by abandoning multi-modal public transport and Mixed Use Railways so beloved of my Mayor Andy Street and the new one, Richard Parker, too. More photos of the railway being converted to a 17 Kms cycle-walkway between Walsall and Lichfield.
Near Brownhills. Track nicked by metal thieves many years ago!
Please explain why you disagree. Thanks so much!
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