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Old fashioned solution to all our transport problems

As Exeter City Council and the Echo do their best to persuade everyone that cars are evil, the answer to Exeter's gridlock problems could be right beneath our feet.

Exeter's tram system was carrying 100,000 passengers per week when it was introduced in September of 1906 and in many parts of the city the tracks are still there, buried under a few inches of tarmac.

It's clear that Stagecoach couldn't organise a pissup in a well stocked brewery, so how about giving the trams another shot at getting folk to work and back. If it's good enough for San Francisco and Amsterdam, then it's good enough for us.

In the lifetime of Exeter's tram system, only one notable accident ever occurred, and what a sight that must have been. I for one have never seen a horse swung round and thrown through a shop window, but I'll bet it was one of those things you'd never forget.

So enough moaning about being green and how bad the congestion is, let's get the trams back out and go to work in style.

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