Dear all
The biggest single item of WMCA spending is, I believe, on transport.
The biggest single transport development spending must be Metro LR extensions, together with VLR, ULR, and Sprint roll out. This highly expensive spending is totally unnecessary, accelerates depletion of oil and gas reserves, accelerates GHG emissions and hence the climate crisis to threaten all life on earth. It diverts attention away from climate justice when top attention must be given to buses.
It has also ruined two mainline railways now given over to trams and, the surviving urban railway lines are still having to play second fiddle to LR, VLR, ULR and Sprint. THIS IS MADNESS!!
My standing as an Independent candidate for Mayor, in May, is simply to use it as a platform to get the abandonment of these very wrong priorities, to show the more sensible and life affirming measures to spend money in the short term to get justice for the poor and much less spending on finite fossil fuels in the medium to long term.
Once again, my £5,000 goes not to this wayward, clueless, floundering government but to three international humanitarian charities.
Does anyone disagree with what I have written here, please?
Am I totally out of my mind with these priorities?:-
Can there PLEASE be a discussion on Tuesday about what I have written here? No more polite silence, apathy, acquiescence!!
