HELP SLOW CLIMATE EMERGENCY

PLEASE SEND THIS TO: customerservices@wmca.org.uk

Put v low finite fossil fuel apartments on ALL of High Plateau at Merry Hill Shopping Centre.

This means permanently keeping Metro "bus on rails" trams off High Plateau.  The whole of the area for small, highly energy efficient homes​ to welcome migrants and all without their own place.

Save nature at Merry Hill by permanently keeping the trams off the 400 m canal embankment with the £100m double track railway viaduct.

Let it be naturally rewilded with NO MORE MOW to allow plants, shrubs and trees to sequester CO2 on the embankment.  Instead of the climate damaging concrete and steel viaduct.

STOP £0.6 billion Metro destroying the UK's only mothballed, principal mainline railway "of national strategic significance" in the heavily congested, densely populated Black Country.

​TOP CLIMATE ACTION REQUEST

People must not be hoodwinked into accepting Metro tram extensions, underground and overground to replace/duplicate buses and even trains! £15 BILLION to 2040 wasted when that money must go for Fare-Free Public Transport and electric buses on bus priority roads.  Please email those exact words to Mayor, Andy Street, at:

MayorsOffice@wmca.org.uk

Malcolm.Holmes@wmre.org.uk,

and deborah.cadman@wmca.org.uk

Then forward the reply to timweller1@gmail.com  - me!

THANKS so much.

Every £ we spend = finite fossil fuels burnt = deadly greenhouse gases to threaten all life on earth. 

Trams look green but you and I have to BE green and campaign for commuter, regional and freight TRAINS on our local railway line that doesn't get the 6 Kms of trams and 2 Kms test track.  That STILL leaves 48 Kms of railway "of national strategic significance" on the Black Country Railway between Worcester and Derby, alongside or near to traffic-choked motorways and roads.  And every crossing is built, too - see my photos.  They built the important railway and forgot the trains and nine stations!

View the Oddity of ...

... the planned tramline taking over the main line railway "of national strategic significance".

2 pm THIS SUNDAY!

My biking event highlighting the oddity of the planned tramline taking over the main line railway "of national strategic significance".

• celebrate a muddy towpath turned into a smooth, hard surface for a responsible shared cycle-walkway;
• view the Parkhead Viaduct on the forgotten, wasted, existing main line railway with no houses, offices or roads built on it - yet!  Only slow "bus on rails" trams planned on 6.7 Kms instead of commuter, regional and freight trains on 56 Kms to complete the full 120 Kms .
• see the huge grass embankment to be turned into a viaduct for "bus on rails" trams and,
• the beautiful grassy embankment spoilt by a double track tram line;
• give feedback on my guerilla gardening landscape enhancement scheme threatened by the £343 million tram scheme on the Black Country main line railway "of national strategic significance".

On Sunday 26 August, 2 pm (move off at 2.10)  Meet in Farthings Lane DY2 0XU on the southern side of Dudley Southern (not even a pavement, let alone a cycle-walkway) 

Bypass.  Motor or, better cycle there.  Plenty of parking if you bring the bike by car.  Or, meet on the planned, expanded canal embankment, on the towpath opposite Primark and M&S at Merry Hill, for 2.30 pm.