Petition to help Wythall Transport Museum continue to run their heritage bus service

[KeithL]

Some time in 2020 Birmingham City Council will launch its Clean Air Zone. One casualty of this will be the heritage bus service which the Transport Museum in Wythall runs between Birmingham City Centre and the Museum on Bank Holidays etc. The Museum has approached Birmingham City Council but they appear unwilling to consider an exemption for them on the basis the Museum is running the service for profit not for charity. Accordingly the Museum is raising a petition to strengthen their support.

If anyone wants to support the Museum then the petition can be found here:

http://www.wythall.org.uk/petition

The main Museum website is here:

http://www.wythall.org.uk

[geoberni]

The Museum has approached Birmingham City Council but they appear unwilling to consider an exemption for them on the basis the Museum is running the service for profit not for charity.

That's BS!

Copied straight from their website, the TRANSPORT MUSEUM WYTHALL is a registered charity no 1167872.
Therefore 'profit' from running the bus service is towards their charity activities, not to make 'company profits'.

Petition signed.

[jagnut66]

I've signed it too.
Good luck to them.
Best wishes,
Mike.

[SteveClem]

Maybe it’s just another extremely politically correct posture? Councils are prone to that kind of thing.

[geoberni]

Maybe it’s just another extremely politically correct posture? Councils are prone to that kind of thing.

Birmingham City Council have a habit of being nasty people.
Here's another petition aimed at them.
Fining Blood Bike Riders for using Bus Lanes when they are trying to save lives!
https://www.change.org/p/birmingham-cit ... -bus-lanes

[Blaketon]

I've signed and made a donation. It annoys me when these ignorant, sanctimonious hypocrites take these blanket decisions. Do they not know that manufacture of new, so called "Clean" vehicles causes a huge amount of pollution, which eventually defuses over a wide area. When you consider the short life, which many such vehicles will have, said pollution will not be spread over a very long period and will in fact be repeated. Those old buses represent recycling. I think that lots of ignoramuses judge things by their own standards and because they don't look after anything, they assume that anything old is unsafe and polluting. It would be very interesting to see the carbon footprints, of the people behind this and I suspect you'll see lots of air miles and some kind of bloated handbag on wheels parked outside their (Big) houses. As I have said many times, lots of them are only "Green", so long as it doesn't inconvenience them or cramp their style. They are big on meaningless gestures and small on substance. To this end, electric cars are only a placebo, designed to kid people that too many people can travel too far, too often and so long as there is no exhaust pipe, all is well (Part of an email I sent to Practical Classics recently, highlighting this issue, was reproduced).