from Moto Hospitality

Hi Lee

Thank you for getting back to me on 30 August.

There is a rat problem on the embankment at the lorry park.  Twelve months ago your company cut down some of my trees, along with the brambles there, to deal with it.  Rijo, the manager told me that rat poison is to go down, shortly.  There is no need for this.

I am clearing the bank of brambles and other vegetation around my remaining trees.  I have removed vast amounts of litter and rubbish thrown down the bank by lorry drivers.  I am now asking for 2 or 3 litter bins along the front where my trees are.  Will you also, please put in a professional shrub and tree planting scheme on the lorry bank, this winter to control the growth of brambles and to beautify the bank that, with the rubbish bins, will resist the rats.  I will do the watering of the new native/British only, shrubs and trees needed for the first two spring and summers.  By then, watering will not be needed.

I am 74 and cannot go on doing the landscaping for you.  You must take over from me, please.

Best wishes

Tim    (Weller)   0791 380 4363

On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 at 14:24, Lee Huggins from Moto <customer.services@moto-way.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Tim

Thank you for your email.

Further to your query. I can advise that Moto has installed 7 biomass boilers across our estates over the last 10 years, until the RHI was removed which was a government grant making any further Biomass install non-viable, these were installed onsite which generates hot water and provides heating requirements via oil.

Solar is something Moto is currently reviewing, and we are very keen to look at this as a way of generating electric. Moto will continue to work with all key stakeholders on what Moto's plans will be regarding this for the future.

Thank you once again for getting in touch.

Kind Regards

Lee

Moto Hospitality

The Gospel of Public Transport According to St Tim the Sinner!

Hi Lee and Cllr Waseem

I am really sorry to hear, Lee about your dreadful experiences and of what things are like on public transport.  Absolutely terrible!

The ultimate indignity, for skinny people like me who are more skeleton than fat and muscle, are the disgraceful hard plastic seats on Metro.  This, when the appearance is of a cushion to sink into, is a shock to my posterior.  £4 m for each "bus on rails" tram, too.  Compared with £350,000 for an electric bus!

In compensation, it should be entirely free for everyone and not just my age group.  No money is a lie when £106 billion is going into HS2 to only travel quicker between the Four Big Cities and two of their airports.  And, £15 billion into replacing some trains and buses with trams by 2040 is a scandal.

We have to stop destroying railway lines by turning them into tramways, housing/trading estates and roads - and, at the most enormous expense, too!

We have to stop turning roads into tramways at the most enormous expense.

We have to abandon yet more tram extensions, immediately.

Put passenger trains on the 106 Kms of mothballed or freight-only railway lines in the W Midlands that includes the wasted, partly unused Worcester to Derby railway.

We have to encourage working from home to free up transport corridors for essential office-based and other workers who must use roads and public transport.

We must have every encouragement for short-distance commuting.

You must work in an office as near as possible to your home, if you really cannot work from home.

Able-bodied, healthy workers need to use their bikes, as I did for the last 15 to 20 years of my social work career - for both commuting and on official council business.  I got 20p per mile by the time I retired at 65 in 2013 (but not for commuting by bike.  But why not, as your reward for using your own energy instead of deepening the climate emergency?)  I kept off busy main roads and took quieter, residential roads and cycle-walkways.  And I kept fitter.

I now have 6 miles out of 8 miles on traffic-free cycle-walkways and towpaths into Brum city centre from Halesowen.  The other two miles are on residential roads.

IN SUMMARY

If you use the car you pay CAZ or ULEZ charge.

If you use bus, train, tram you pay nothing.

If you use e-bike or self-powered bike for work commuting you get paid and, paid more if the bike is 100% self powered, fossil free.

What do you think, Lee?!   AND WASEEM - please Sir?!