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Ssssh! Don't give them any silly ideas

But the comparison is not with trams in other countries but with the ones that were replaced which had far more comfortable seats. Travelling on the metro - as I did yesterday - is now a far less pleasant experience.

The lunchtime BBC Midlands news programme today reported problems with "near misses" where people are wandering across the tracks at Bull Street apparently ignorant of the fact that there are trams travelling along them. Paying too much attention to phones and too little to surroundings was...

The Midland Metro has been running into the city centre for years - mind you, the city in question is Wolverhampton.

It's also Priestfield, not Prestfield. The platform positions at Bilston Central are the wrong way round - the one on the right in the diagram (to Birmingham) is nearer the Wolverhampton end than the other.

Do you have the figures for Wednesbury Great Western Street?

Arriva was slightly confusing when it was first introduced. I pronounced it Arr -eye-va (like arrival without the last letter), as did Mickey Clarke on Wake Up To Money. I was working for a Cowie Group company at the time it was renamed and no "official" pronunciation was mentioned - we had...

I can't see why extending the Metro in Birmingham city centre is a priority at all. The money and effort would have been far better used to build line 2 from Walsall to Brierley Hill instead - a single route is not a network!

It seems a bit odd to accept tickets on just the 79 bus when the NatEx 74 follows the same route between West Bromwich and Birmingham, unless it's simply an oversight.