Dear Suzanne - you are so right. I'm on your side. You are doing a wonderful job and thanks for your emails. But please give me some encouragement, too - only if you agree, of course!! And an excellent piece from Paul Atkin.
I am NOT a lone voice in calling for an urgent move away from finite fossil fuel consumption - that is like a poisoned chalice - superficially, highly desirable and thirst quenching but, ultimately, a potent poison. A poison because oil/gas reserves are becoming exhausted and world climates unable to support life on earth from burning up the emptying chalice of oil and gas.
This means all the unions MUST oppose the fraudulent High Scam 2 that has two regional airports to stop at and only some trains that will divert off into Brum and Crewe on their way to Manchester. But no other intermediate stations!! The High Shuttle 2 train is isolated from HS1 and only connects the edge of London with Manchester. It is very mainly an alternative provision for plane passengers, only. All intercity services must continue for the current stations that HS2 is too fast to stop at.
PLUS,
Well over half a billion pounds (£650 m is the 2022 figure) worth of deadly greenhouse gases to destroy our principal, mainline railway
for 1 million people in the Black Country. I refer to the Derby to Devon via Dudley railway. Or, Burton on Trent to Bristol via Brierley Hill and NOT Brum! See Railfuture's map, here
PLEASE, Suzanne I need your written endorsement to the top officers, members and council leaders at the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) that what they are doing, in spending £15 BILLION to 2040 for underground and overground Metro trams, is wrong and totally unnecessary. The money must go to stop the destruction of further railway lines and to boost bus travel with the Fare-Free Public Transport that I've had for 15.5 years. And, for bus/business lanes, as here:
Could you write something where you DO agree with what I've written, please?
