Did the Inspector approve it for trams, only if a third track was put in for freight?

Please confirm that this was the condition for WBHE being approved for trams.  A third track in a heavily built-up conurbation where not even all the bridges are being strengthened for heavy rail freight, let alone widened for a third track, according to Tim Martin, Head of Governance at WMCA.

See you in Aug or Sept, 2024 at the opening of the WBHE - only three more years to wait.  Will I live that long?  I hope not.  It was predicted, by Cllr Fred Hunt, Leader of Dudley Council in a conversation with me in the mid 90s, that it would be opened in the year 2000!​

 6 scandals on the 40th anniversary of the W Mid...

​The current leader is campaigning for city status for Dudley that is the largest town by population without a railway station!​  But he only wants, what he calls, a shuttle tramway to the mainline at Dudley Port in Sandwell and a tram stop where the railway station once stood - for 100 years - at Castle Hill.  All this makes for more jollities than Boris Johnson's Jolly Japes!!

They want it; we make it bite, like every other national park

from Mick Freer:

As you are an advocate for this proposed 'West Midlands National Park', I suggest that you study the proposal and advise us how this will protect our countryside from the real threats that we are addressing?

We have to make it so it does.  Otherwise, the National Park is meaningless.  The authorities, the establishment came up with the idea, so they had better make our 32 sq Kms + Lutley Wedge the first AND, with the full protection that the other national parks have.  This is a perfectly reasonable request.  They want it; we make it bite, like every other national park.  Although, I recall that they built a nuclear power station in Snowdonia NP at Trawsfynydd.  At least, they won't do that with ours!!

Boris Johnson's economic growth plans must not affect our countryside.  Cobham's economic greedy growth expansion for Hagley Hall must be the very last.  We want farming and recreation NOT concrete, brick and tarmac.

Economic gain is nature's loss and our ultimate undoing.