Funny peculiar, rather than fun funny!

Why does everyone in Stourbridge want their principal mainline railway wasted in parts and destroyed in other parts?

Why does every person feel it's fine enough for the nearest thing that Merry Hill has to a wildlife site and a public open space to be completely obliterated by a 400 m, double track, railway viaduct?  I have my own landscape enhancement scheme there to be covered over by the viaduct!

Why do even towpath walkers and canal boaters want their view of the distant hills and countryside spoilt by the concrete and steel viaduct from the high canal embankment?

Why is no one bothered, no one thinks there is anything eccentric or, weird and wonderful by this behaviour?!

Dishonourable and Dysfunctional Dudley MBC refuses to put right its own incompetence

TWO CANALS TAINTED BY DUDLEY'S LESS THAN MAGIC TOUCH!

Just as it took over 40 years to force HMG to discharge a £400 m "legitimate" debt to Iran, after only 25 years, Dudley MBC still has absolutely no intention to put right its own unbelievable failings in spending a quarter of a million pounds of public money in overseeing the work of Barhale Construction Services in executing the most perfectly incompetent and useless canal restoration in the history of the UK.

This was Dudley No 2 Canal, aka the Lapal Canal, in 1997 when a 400 metre section of the canal was supposedly 'restored' but never fully filled with water for fear of collapse of the canal embankment.

Dudley Council is also involved in completely destroying the one and only public open space at Merry Hill Shopping Centre with a 400 metre concrete viaduct right on top of the steep canal embankment, when it could go on steel stilts directly above the water of the canal.  And, probably, at less cost.

This is in addition to six Dudley railway lines completely obliterated and a seventh, a railway "of national strategic significance", well on its way to the unfortunate rail graveyard in the sky!

Earlier this year, a very modest improvement to fewer than ten stiles on public rights of way by putting steps on them cost over £9,000, I have been told.

Dishonourable and Dysfunctional Dudley MBC refuses to put right its own incompetence