Showing posts with label tramline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tramline. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 August 2018

View the Oddity of ...

... the planned tramline taking over the main line railway "of national strategic significance".

2 pm THIS SUNDAY!

My biking event highlighting the oddity of the planned tramline taking over the main line railway "of national strategic significance".
  • celebrate a muddy towpath turned into a smooth, hard surface for a responsible shared cycle-walkway;
  • view the Parkhead Viaduct on the forgotten, wasted, existing main line railway with no houses, offices or roads built on it - yet!  Only slow "bus on rails" trams planned on 6.7 Kms instead of commuter, regional and freight trains on 56 Kms to complete the full 120 Kms .
  • see the huge grass embankment to be turned into a viaduct for "bus on rails" trams and,
  • the beautiful grassy embankment spoilt by a double track tram line;
  • give feedback on my guerilla gardening landscape enhancement scheme threatened by the £343 million tram scheme on the Black Country main line railway "of national strategic significance".
On Sunday 26 August, 2 pm (move off at 2.10)  Meet in Farthings Lane DY2 0XU on the southern side of Dudley Southern (not even a pavement, let alone a cycle-walkway) 
Bypass.  Motor or, better cycle there.  Plenty of parking if you bring the bike by car.  Or, meet on the planned, expanded canal embankment, on the towpath opposite Primark and M&S at Merry Hill, for 2.30 pm.