TRAMS TAKING OVER ARE GREEDY, OVER-CONSUMPTION, SHOW OFF "BUSES ON RAILS"

Flaunting our wealth before the world to replace some buses and trains with trams is socially unjust because it is misusing finite resources like fossil fuels that are desperately needed for far more urgent and important priorities.  Like addressing egregious health and wealth inequalities.

£15 billion to 2040 for mainly underground and overground trams is immoral.  Wiser counsels would use that money to extend the Fare-Free Public Transport scheme to everyone, for a gradual change to electric buses on bus priority roads.

And, to ease congestion, air pollution and the Covid, Climate, Ecological, Resource emergency.

UK Tram Ltd calls them "buses on rails".  What's wrong with buses on roads without the rails?

Buses are more flexible than trams and stop only when they need to stop.  Trams must stop at every tram stop regardless of anyone getting on or off.

Benevolent, charming, we know best for you, dictating policy makers at Transport HQ

Thanks, Geo.  Nice to hear from you.  WMCA is West Midlands Combined Authority brought in by a Conservative government, that another such government, getting on for forty years ago, abolished.  That authority was called the West Midlands County Council done away with by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.  There is nothing new under the sun!  We had county councillors, then.  With this one there is no councillors, so no democracy.  Not that any of our councillors seem to be interested in anything very much!  There is no discussion, debate followed by voting by councillors whom we have elected.  Democratic deficit at 16 Summer Lane, Brum, the home of Transport for West Midlands, the autocratic WMCA and the one and only national tram promotion group, UK Tram Ltd.