to Bob Whitehead

Sorry I missed the meeting on Tuesday.  I had been out nearly all day - with Richard Worrall, Chair of Transport Delivery Committee (TDC) in the morning on a tour of the destruction at Merry Hill and the more sensible alternative; in the afternoon, in Digbeth at Metro Eastside extension consultation - now £220 m for 1.7 Kms.

Do you think we should be pushing for a public announcement over the scrapping of the Jan 2020, £15 billion to 2040, 150 miles of underground and overground tram routes, in the light of the multiple crises, all exacerbated by wrong, foolish expenditure like this?

Therefore, upgrade/finish the UK's major 22 Kms Black Country Cycle-Walk Mudway!

 The committee considered a motion submitted the Vice-Chair, Councillor Worrall on 27 May 2020.

 

“West Midlands Transport Delivery Committee welcomes the Government’s announcement of £2 billion national funding for the urgent provision of cycle and walking routes (of which £250m in the current financial year), which is to be spent on main corridors for work journeys to and from major centres of employment. 

 

The TDC expresses its full support and encouragement to TfWM officers working to achieve this in partnership with District Council colleagues, and others, such as the Canals and Rivers Trust, Network Rail, Sustrans, Cycling UK, and other cycling, disability and community organisations.

 

The TDC further notes Cllr. Worrall’s report, appended to this Notice of Motion, and asks all concerned to do whatever they can to achieve an early, fit-for-purpose, well used, permanent, strategic network of cycling and walking routes to serve the whole of the West Midlands, both for work and recreational purposes.” 

 

Resolved : That the motion be supported.