Half of jobs are held by people who have moved out of the city, but commute in every day to work. Peak travel is near to gridlock (especially if it rains). Motorists compete for every space and the buses frequently have to share road space with other traffic. 20% of peak traffic is lifts to get children to school. Some people call for every main road to be made a·Red Route, where you will be punished for stopping at any time.

The injury rate to children in the inner city is shocking and there is little enforcement of speed limits. 30mph is too fast for residential roads if we want people to feel safe cycling and walking. Pavement-parking is rife, making life difficult for pedestrians and in many areas kerbs and road crossings are not designed around making mobility easy for those who need it.

A small - but increasing - number of people cycle some journeys, even if they do have a car, but there is little council support for creating better cycling infrastructure so that more people will feel the roads are safe for them to cycle on (For more information on cycling in Birmingham, go back to 'Transport' and select the 'Take Action' section).

Birmingham hardly makes cars any more, but suffers all their negative consequences. Oil is a limited and increasingly expensive resource. Cutting the city's carbon emissions will be impossible unless our dependence on the car can be changed.

The approximately 35% of households with no car get a poor deal.