CLLR MIKE ROUSE IS THE MAN RESPONSIBLE!

Dear Adam

Thanks for both your emails that I received and read.

You really should be kicking up one hell of a fuss with your Twelve and True Kiddi councillors, County councillors and, with Mike Rouse and Leader Simon.

Their national Conservative Party in government declared a climate emergency four years ago but absolutely nothing has changed.  Presumably, because they fundamentally disagree with the 200 year old science of climate and know better than every scientist from the 1820s to the present day.  They believe we can rip through our irreplaceable resources that will never lead to shortages or, have the slightest effect on the composition of the atmosphere that is allowing life on earth to exist.

Quite apart from that, you should all be thoroughly ashamed of your disgraceful bus provision that really does make Kidderminster a laughing stock.  Are you really not ashamed, Adam of the slum bus station and joke of a bus shelter?  You cannot be because you want millions spent on the Town Hall upgrade lasting two years, instead!

What is worse is that you are starved of funds for even a 20th century bus station and shelter, while your fellow members in the Combined Authority get the most magnificent, all style over substance, grossly extravagant, wealth flaunting, public transport provision imaginable with High Scam 2, Metro "bus on rails" trams and Sprint, "the bus that thinks it's a tram"!  Not a single W Mids railway line has been restored to use since 1998.  However, they have achieved two mainline railways destroyed by trams since 1999, costing us all hundreds of millions of pounds in both price and in weight of deadly greenhouse gases to get the trams instead of the trains on railway lines!

Do you think you all might need to check out your shockingly poor values and priorities in the Combined Authority?  Worcs CC is a non-constituent member and should be standing up to the Big Seven constituent members wanting all the largesse for themselves and only the crumbs from their rich man's table for yourselves in Worcestershire.

Mike, Simon and every Worcestershire councillor are being taken for a ride.  Yet, they don't care.  Only three councillors and yourself have ever replied.  Nothing at all from Mike or Simon.

Best wishes for a future of much higher standards.  And thanks, Adam for having the decency to reply.

Tim    (Weller   0791 380 4363)

40 years of emphasis on trams over trains and buses

I remain very concerned over the competence and commitment of the councillors and the transport experts who advise them, over recent decades (since 1981) of hundreds of millions of pounds in both price and in weight of deadly greenhouse gas emissions for simply replacing perfectly good commuter trains (and duplicating buses) with highly expensive, all style over substance trams.  23 Kms of trams with 18 Kms on a former mainline railway in 42 years of hard endeavour!!  This, when bus use ALWAYS languishes in the sidelines as a third class transport after cars and trams/trains.  Perfectly depicted by the Third World, poverty stricken looking, with a trickle of users, Kidderminster slum bus station next to a popular Tesco car park.

Kidderminster's slum bus station disgrace!

This time a definite 20th century, tired, uninviting, slum bus shelter

Dear Cllrs Mike and Simon (Rouse and Geraghty)

PHOTO, below

Could Mike Rouse and the relevant officer reply, please with an assurance that something will finally be done about the shocking state of bus provision in Kidderminster?

How can we get modal shift from car to bus with this kind of antiquated, uninviting provision?

Hundreds of millions of pounds in price and pounds in weight of greenhouse gas emissions for trams taking over railways and roads in Brum and the Black Country but nothing for the poor bus passenger who contributes the least in worsening the climate emergency!!

Is this a Victorian horse-drawn omnibus shelter or Victorian coffin rest?

Dear Cllr Mike - no reply from Alan Amos.  Perhaps, you could do so, please along with the appropriate officer.  And Cllr Simon could do with visiting this astonishingly decrepit looking bus station, too - it must be the worst in England!

SEE PHOTO, below

It concerns the grotty, the disgraceful and shoddy looking bus station that looks as though it is something out of Noah's Ark.  Two roof panels are missing to let in the rain.  The drivers have their break/rest by standing at one end, with the waiting passengers standing at the other end!

Read my email, below that got no comment or reply from a single person!

PHOTO, BELOW - taken in Exchange Street, Kidderminster today, in the 21st century.

But, did they have bus shelters in the Victorian age, for this might be one?

Is this where Queen Victoria's coffin rested in 1901?  I didn't know she died in Kiddi.

This particular 19th century model is draughty and cold, without even its Victorian wicker or timber seating and is not inviting to stand in for hours in hope of a Diamond drawing up.  Do you agree?

Seriously, what is this odd structure, please?

If a bus shelter, can the woman in the photo be sure of a bus even stopping if she continues to wait and wait and wait?

This 'shelter' is the first from the bus station for at least the Diamond 192 that my wife and I were on today but it went rushing past, so perhaps it is not a 'live' bus stop, at all.

Should this particular coffin rest or horse-drawn omnibus shelter now be consigned to the Black Country Living Museum, perhaps?

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