Cllr Linda Bigham of Coventry CC

I would like to make the point that it is members of the TDC who are directly responsible for what is so extraordinary and inexplicable and, indeed, tragic.  Councillors make the decisions for the officers to implement.  And I've been alerting PTA/Centro, then TfWM/WMCA to the perplexing behaviour of the experts and authority members since the 1990s!  However, nothing changes.  But you, Linda, can make all the difference and be my heroine!  I'll even treat you to coffee and cake if you would like to make a site visit to the mighty Dudley No 1 Canal embankment at my favourite Merry Hill Shopping Centre that I'm making merry heaven - with your help.

My contact details:

28 Hunnington Cres  HALESOWEN  B63 3DJ

0791 380 4363

Best wishes

Tim

to Finance Director, Linda Horne

At a time of multiple crises over climate, ecology, nature, housing, cost of living, inflation, resources and, now the funding of our surrogate war on Russia over their invasion of Ukraine, it is essential we end the folly of worsening all these problems with foolish and unnecessary expenditure.

May I please meet with you at the Copthorne Hotel, Level Street, Brierley Hill to show you our Dudley No 1 Canal embankment that is planned to be destroyed by a 400 metre concrete and steel viaduct for the 10.7 Kms WBHE?  I can make any time and any day, such is the importance of the site being protected.

I am asking:

End the £15 BILLION (Jan 2020 figure) expansion of Metro to replace some buses and trains in our region.

End the Dudley Tram arriving at Merry Hill that destroys the Dudley No 1 Canal embankment public open space and my landscape enhancement scheme.  Even more importantly, the High Plateau must ALL be used for low energy, housing apartments and Metro must be kept off it.  This can be done by running the trams down the Black Country Railway "of national strategic significance" all the way to Stourbridge Jct with tram stops at Waterfront (electric buses to Merry Hill), Brierley Hill and Withymoor.

Even after 40 years of working on the Metro project, it is still not too late to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to level up the poor by levelling down the rich Metro "bus on rails" tram provision.

Please make a site visit to meet me and for me to hear your views over my concern: to stop a small part of Dudley and nature at Merry Hill being buried under concrete, brick and tarmac.

Please, Linda save £100 m out of the well over £500 m for the WBHE by keeping the Dudley Tram on the mainline railway to Stourbridge.

Best wishes

Tim

PS - my attempt at fun funny and funny peculiar:

 Funny behaviour by our dear betters and masters

rom W Mids Climate Coalition

 Nine Action Points