My matters of concern affecting our town and borough

We are between the devil and the deep blue sea but, there is still much we can do:

1. For my 50 years living in the town, McDonald's pair of traffic lights work independently on the morning major traffic flow to the M5 and Brum.  They can be fixed to work together so that the traffic allowed through on the first Green light is allowed through on the second Green light.
2. The Asda car park white stone roundabout can be put back to how it was - 100% nature to maximise the carbon dioxide captured by nature to slow the release of this global warming gas.
3. Instruct only an annual mow along the edges of the A456/Manor Way bypass to maintain visibility and for trees and shrubs to re-colonise the central reservation to sequester carbon dioxide to slow a warming planet.  Pine trees, we hear on Radio 4, are the worst for ready burning.
4. The present thick woodland on the central reservation shows how the full length looked like before the major carriageway restructuring of 30 years ago.
5. The 50 year old, tyres to tarmac, Grange roundabout could have carbon absorbing soil and grass without affecting visibility to bring it into line with every other UK, major, 30 metre diameter, highway roundabout.
6. Lapal Lane South corner by the 5G mast should have a professionally designed, landscaping scheme of CO2 sequestering trees and shrubs between the footpath and carriageway.
7. Order the scrapping of tram extensions which have brought the enormous cost, inconvenience and more changes between the half a dozen different rail modes under the DfT's Mixed Use Railways project.
8. STOP the dangerous practice of allowing the public to walk over the Gornal/Gornalwood landfill site which vent a cocktail of poisonous gases.  Himley Environmental Ltd (HEL) must be brought to account and put things right.
9. FINISH the UK's top in importance, 20 Kms Black Country Cycle-Walkway on the two old railway lines alongside the HEL site, so it is safe and attractive for walkers, cyclists, runners and horse riders to use it on the entire 20 Kms length between Merry/Brierley Hill and NW Wolverhampton.
10. Use the W Midlands remaining, existing or freight only railway lines for commuter and regional TRAINS not trams.

Tim    (Weller 0791 380 4363)