I hope you like jamming, too
What a brilliant idea to carry out engineering works on Birmingham's road tunnel network on the night of the city's biggest gig of the year.
If you were at Stevie Wonder's sell-out opening night at the NIA you may well have been among the 13,500 fans who found their evening's enjoyment somewhat curtailed by the whopper of a traffic jam that ensued.
I am told that tunnels were closed because of maintenance work. I hope Stevie and his sparkling band weren't waylaid, or they may think twice about re-visiting Birmingham in October.
You might have presumed the people carrying out the repairs would have consulted the city's entertainment's diary to check if there was a multi-million selling recording artist performing that night. And that if he was, a few thousand people might turn out to see him, and drive to the show. Politician-types call it "joined up thinking." I call it the bleedin' obvious.
The show, needless to say, was awesome. If you were there, what did you think? Did you groove to Superstition. Did you feel the love? Absolutely soul-enhancing.
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Perhaps if more people left their cars at home and used alternative methods of transport there would not be so many traffic jams and maintenance work would be required less often.
Joe. This is entirely the wrong standpoint to take. It cannot be beyond the wit of man to devise a transport plan that incorporates car travel. Not everyone wants to go for a night out in Birmingham wearing walking boots and carrying a knapsack stuffed with cheese and pickle sandwiches.