Article: On the right road to relief from the gridlock; Let's pull together to get the West Midlands moving - Birmingham's transport director David Pywell speaks to Chief Feature Writer Ros Dodd.

Gracing a wall in Room Three of Birmingham's Council House, adjacent to where the city's transport director David Pywell is sitting, is a large black and white photograph of a Victorian street scene.

There are no cars, motorbikes, trams or lorries jostling for space around Birmingham Town Hall - only pedestrians and a horse and carriage.

How transport has moved on during the course of a century. Yet despite ambitious plans for 21st-century modes of travel, Mr Pywell's 20-year vision for transport in the West Midlands also includes walking.

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