First read 20 yrs ago as an undergrad text, re-read this week from the sickbed and learned so much more. Now inspired to pick up my own research again.
Back over the Viaduct at Stourbridge towards the Junction. This was a privately commissioned trip as part of Pre Metro Operations' proposals to run an Ultra Light Rail service from Stourbridge Junction to Canal Street, Brierley Hill (to link in with West Midlands Metro).
Plenty wheezing greenfinches on my walk into work earlier. Also mistle thrush, song thrush, blackbird, chaffinch, robin, and three soaring mewing buzzards.
Just over four years ago, I walked the line of HS2 from London to Birmingham. Today I feel gutted for the people, wild species and beautiful places along its route. It was a vanity project then; and is irresistible now to a particularly vain PM. https://t.co/EnCOJhtZa2
#ReThinkHS2 'Ancient woods are irreplaceable. We can’t replace the complex biodiversity of ancient woods which has accumulated over hundreds of years.' https://t.co/JnPz9pxU7s
“John Sauven, the Greenpeace director, said it gave Johnson the “dubious honour of being this century’s largest destroyer of ancient woodlands in the UK”.” https://t.co/ttxV8SIXHZ