TIM, AT 73 YEARS, ASKS OF TfWM!

 Ask TfWM:

• No more Metro trams - 150 miles are planned to 2040 to get a multi-mixed up public transport.
• Trains on train lines, instead.  No more railways made into roads and roads turned into railways.
• Free electric buses on bus priority roads instead of "bus on rails" trams.

In more detail:

1. Please ask on my behalf that commuter and regional trains must go back on the 47 Kms of our Black Country Railway "of national strategic significance" between Derby and Devon via Dudley.
2. 47 Kms is still available after Metro "bus on rails" trams go on 6.7 Kms out of the available 56 Kms between Stourbridge Jct and Burton on Trent.
3. Please ask for no more expenditure on wastefully extending what is officially called "bus on rails" trams.
4. Instead, ask for electric buses to go directly on bus priority roads, without the railway tracks!
5. PLEASE say to TfWM that this particular OAP wants his regional Fare-Free Public Transport (FFPT) to be given to the younger generations, too.  This, to end the disgraceful discrimination against the middle-aged and the young.
6. A Something for Others campaign - a wonderful legacy to leave our descendants and, we get to rest peacefully in our graves!!
7. Six simple sentences, above to suggest easy ways of lessening the climate emergency.

To 36 Dudley Conservative councillors

Dear friends

Well done on your great victory in England and, to a lesser extent, in Wales.

You can now win another major victory by stopping the destruction of the UK's very last, easily reinstated, half finished, principal mainline railway from Worcester, through our Black Country and on to Derby.  This is because there is still time to save the forgotten, unused, wasted 56 Kms between Stourbridge Jct and Burton on Trent.  This week I read:

"Preliminary works on an extension from Wednesbury to Brierley Hill, serving Dudley, are due to begin next year, whilst final activities are set to take place next year on the Wolverhampton city centre extension serving both the bus and railway station." 

from https://www.wmca.org.uk/news/birmingham-city-centre-tram-extension-opens-to-passengers-ahead-of-schedule

Please get to it - Patrick and Co and win the praise and glory for stopping the two tram schemes, first and then getting, asap the commuter, regional and intercity trains back on the full 120 Kms (74 miles), with Railfuture's nine stations with ours rebuilt at Dudley Castle Gate.  See:

 Railfuture's full map.pdf

With best wishes

Tim