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Centro - Organisation responsible for bus, rail and Midland Metro Tram transport in the West Midlands. Includes journey planner, timetables, ticket information and ticket sales.
Travel West Midlands - Contains bus timetables, frequency guides, travel card information, ticket details and prices. Also includes a customer services area.
VIP Limousines - Offer American stretched limousines for hire. Contains details of services, photographs of cars, and booking information.
Mattisse - Contains current and real-time information about travel, traffic, trains and air quality in the West Midlands. Also includes details of car sharing schemes, and list of member councils.
West Midlands Local Transport Plan 2000 - Online access to the report from the West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority.
24/7 Birmingham Airport Parking - Choice of car parks at Birmingham International Airport, or hotel and parking packages. Includes price list.
Birmingham Coach Company - Provides local bus services within Birmingham and the Black Country, plus services for corporate and educational travel. Includes route planner, fares, rescruitment information and contacts.
M6 Toll - Central information point for the Birmingham Northern Relief Road including news and route information.
Beacon Coaches - Includes information about fleet and services available.
CALLS - Campaign to re-open the rail route via Wolverhampton Low Level, Birmingham Snow Hill, Dudley and Stourbridge. Action details and history.
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Transport When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. 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There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope Transport A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. 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Fleming The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Transport In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Transport I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Transport If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Transport Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Transport A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Transport It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Transport The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire Transport To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Transport Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Transport I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Transport Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Transport Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Good-bye. 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